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.

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)

Karl,

It's the FTSE European & Globals which are missing from the 5/11 download. Starting from row 1181, FTSEED07, Ftse European Oil & Gas(usd), finishing row 1243.

Doris,

How will I know which stocks to ramp if your download is dodgy?

:o)

Hilary,

I've been downloading files now from all over. It looks like my lovely new "download earlier" system is at fault :(

My new system gives more indices than our archived data. If you check all of last weeks downloads (and beyond) you will notice that there are only 286 per day. But today's has 349.

The extra indices are the FTSE European & Global with a postfix USD, GBP, EUR and JPY. Any idea what these indicies are and why they are different from the standard FTSE European indices? They don't appear to be quoted in different currencies.

K.

PS. I won't be around until friday, but never fear I will be on the case then.

Karl - Thanks. I reckon they really need to look at these high/low values.

Take tonight's data - a good example - AAL (Anglo American) low given as 1127 where as MoneyAM intraday charts and other provider data give a low of 1210.

Karl,

Thinking back, I seem to recall that those indices first appeared in your download on Thursday last week. They were then missing on Friday before returning again this week. I haven't got a clue what they are though and, in truth, I doubt that it really matters to me (or others) if they are present or not.

Karl,

There are a couple of stocks which I'd guess are old nil-paids:

BRJN
GENN

They seem to be in the list one day, but not the next day. It's been happening for a little while.

Requested data for the 12th. Download filename date was for the 14th. Internal column date and data was the 12th. Tad confusing when same filenames are used and stuff gets overwritten.