Dear all,

We are currently developing a new Data Download tool and are looking for testers. On release, this will be for 'Active' and above subscription levels.

If you are interested please click here.

Your comments and suggestions are welcome.

Karl.

BT,

Karl is not here today, but rest assured, I will get him to take a look and clarify the issues raised.

Ian

It would be interesting to learn the official LSE line on all this.

It reminds me of sub atomic particle theory. You can assume a stock has made a new 52 week high and a 52 week low until you open the box and find out it hasn't moved at all ;-)

Karl,

Good stuff, I downloaded some data for (hbos) going back to 01/01/2003 and there seems to be recurring dates with different volume and prices in january.

Hope this helps.
Marko1000

Marko,

Karl is back in the office on Monday, so I will pass this and the other comments onto him to address then,

Ian

Ian, Karl,

Although the download is available from 5pm, is everything actually available at that time?

On Friday I downloaded shortly after 5pm. In particular the FTSE European and Global indices were missing from the download. I simply assumed that you'd taken them out yourselves. Last night I downloaded later on in the evening (around 9pm if I remember correctly) and those indices were included again.

Hil,

I will pass this onto KArl.

Ian

Ian,

The designation of stocks within the "Index" column is good, imo.

Would it also be possible to designate the overseas stocks within this category? I don't trade overseas stocks and it would be useful to be able to filter them all out.

Hil,

I will pass this onto Karl,

Ian

Did you just cut and paste 121 there Ian?

:o)

you caught me out :)

Subtle spelling correction of "Karl" though.

:o)

Marko,

The problem with the duplicates should now be sorted out.

Hilary,

Not too sure about the download of the Indices, they *should* all be available at the same time. I will have to check it this evening.

Also I'm just checking but we don't seem to have overseas stocks, in the download or on the site. We only display price information for LSE stocks. Could you explain what you mean by "overseas"?

Qwento,

I have passed on your query about the High/Low prices to the guys that handle our price feed.

Thanks all,

Karl.

Karl,

Re. the overseas stocks, a lot of the stocks seem to be described as "Com Stk" with a nominal value in USD. I've just pulled 3 out at random:

JDU JD Uniphase
MOT Motorola
QUA Qualcomm

They all appear to have a listing on the LSE. I'm not quite sure what that's all about.

Hilary,

Where are these stocks described as "Com Stk" ?

K.

Karl,

I might have confused you a bit there. The stocks have a name which is followed by "Com Stk" and then their nominal amount in USD.

Scrolling down the list of shares:

ABS Adobe Systems Com Stk Usd0.0001
ACP Apple Computer Com Stk Npv
ADX Andrx Corp Com Stk Usd0.001
AED Applied Micro Com Stk Usd0.01
AER Altera Corp Com Stk Usd0.001

etc.

Hilary,

Ok ... I see ... right I'll try to find something in our data that differentiates them.

From what I can see they are all:
- quoted in GBP ... so that is out.
- listed in the LSE ... so that is out.
- have valid closing prices ... so that is out.
- are all traded stock ... so that is also out.

I'll keep digging to find something ... if all else fails ... I'll try to do something with the "Com Stk" in the name.

Karl.

Hilary,

Also just checked the 5pm download for the indicies ... all seems to be ok from this end?

Can you check again ?

K

Karl,

I've just downloaded it myself and, as you say, they are present. However, I also re-downloaded the data from 5/11/04 and those indices are still missing. It presumably must have just been a glitch on that one day.

Hilary,

I've just checked the 5/11/04 myself and do get the indicies ... both as a single download and with the full equities.

How are you downloading it? And what indicies exactly do you notice are missing?

I will get to the bottom of this :)

K

Karl: I don't know why you bother, she only ever downloads the stocks she is going to ramp the next day:00)