eSignals international symbols list

[hpbucks]

does anyone know where to get a list of international esignal symbols?

i have created a list for US however all the international symbols in esignal have different extensions.

does anyone know or have a list for the following exchanges:

Germany XETRA
French CAC40
Japanese Nikkei 225
Hong kong Hang Seng
Swiss SSMI
Dutch AEX

[ACM]

Re: eSignals international symbols list

hpbucks
You can find the symbols in an exchange by using the Symbol Search within the application [for help on this feature see this article for version 10.6 or this article for version 11] or the Symbol Lookup and searching in either one by Exchange Name
Alex

Originally posted by hpbucks
does anyone know where to get a list of international esignal symbols?

i have created a list for US however all the international symbols in esignal have different extensions.

does anyone know or have a list for the following exchanges:

Germany XETRA
French CAC40
Japanese Nikkei 225
Hong kong Hang Seng
Swiss SSMI
Dutch AEX

[hpbucks]

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

This is the same suggestion made by eSignal support. They claim they do not know the symbol lists of their own feed.

How as a data feed provider, they do NOT know what symbols are included in their feed?

If Yes, esignal CAN provide a list of instruments.

If Not, I don't believe as a company they do NOT know.

I have had feed for a few month and have hardly used it due to the effort required to create the watchlists.

I am looking to esignal feed with a 3rd party software. i am aiming to run scan and searches through large watchlists.

this is a very slow and time intensive method. it not possible to add 1000's instruments to a watchlist.

I am looking to a solution like metastock symbol list.

Has anyone already created a list of symbols for the following exchanges:

Germany XETRA
French CAC40
Japanese Nikkei 225
Hong kong Hang Seng
Swiss SSMI
Dutch AEX
Milan exchange
Australian,
Singapore,

I cant be the first person to ask for exchange watch list symbols.

No one at Esignal seem to want to find a solution. Very poor service. They expect me to spend hours to create watch lists. i am close to canceling.

apart from go to symbol search and spend tons of time creating standard exchange watchlists.

[ScottJ]

We hope to provide Index constituents in the future but we simply don't maintain those now nor are they "free" as many consumers expect. We are working on the contractual rights to provide these constituents but that will take some time.

All I can suggest is to use the Index sources' website to get the list and then add our suffix in Excel via a simple cell merge. Then, copy the results into a watchlist. That should work for the vast majority of symbols as we try to keep our symbol format as close to exchange native as we can.

Hope that helps.

Thanks.

[hpbucks]

Thanks for the information. Scott.

After speaking to the 5th person at eSignal Support, you have given me a good answer.

If it a contractual rights issue, i can accept that answer.

I will try the the Excel cell merge solution.

[ScottJ]

I want to add that I feel your pain! It's flat out not very easy to find/grab these lists!!

I'm exploring some options we may have to get at least the popular indices for redistribution. Yahoo lists the constituents on quite a few indices but clearly indicate that it's for non-commercial use only, hence why we (eSignal) can't simply grab it and give to customers. That sort of language is very common on all these sites. That said, all these restrictions put us in an awkward place when trying to meet customer's expectations and somewhat explains why the staff wasn't more helpful in your eyes.

From an individual's standpoint, there doesn't appear to be any language precluding you from grabbing the list and using it for your personal use.

Let's take the CAC 40 as an example. If you grabbed the list from Yahoo, copied and "pasted special - text format" into Excel, then kept only the symbol column, you could then do a simple find and replace removing the .PA and replacing it with our code -EEB.

In theory, the list would then look like this:

AC-EEB
ACA-EEB
AI-EEB
ALO-EEB
ALU-EEB
BN-EEB
BNP-EEB
CA-EEB
CAP-EEB
CS-EEB
DG-EEB
EAD-EEB
EDF-EEB
EI-EEB
EN-EEB
FP-EEB
FTE-EEB
GLE-EEB
GSZ-EEB
KN-EEB
LG-EEB
MC-EEB
ML-EEB
MT-EEB
OR-EEB
PP-EEB
PUB-EEB
RI-EEB
RNO-EEB
SAN-EEB
SEV-EEB
SGO-EEB
STM-EEB
SU-EEB
TEC-EEB
UG-EEB
UL-EEB
VIE-EEB
VIV-EEB
VK-EEB

Copy that to a quote window and that's it, in theory of course

[ScottJ]

Here are the Hang Seng Index components by the same theoretical process...

0001-HKG
0002-HKG
0003-HKG
0004-HKG
0005-HKG
0006-HKG
0011-HKG
0012-HKG
0013-HKG
0016-HKG
0017-HKG
0019-HKG
0023-HKG
0066-HKG
0083-HKG
0101-HKG
0144-HKG
0267-HKG
0291-HKG
0293-HKG
0330-HKG
0386-HKG
0388-HKG
0494-HKG
0688-HKG
0700-HKG
0762-HKG
0836-HKG
0857-HKG
0883-HKG
0939-HKG
0941-HKG
1044-HKG
1088-HKG
1109-HKG
1199-HKG
1299-HKG
1398-HKG
1880-HKG
1898-HKG
2318-HKG
2388-HKG
2600-HKG
2628-HKG
3328-HKG
3988-HKG

[ScottJ]

On a related note, we've been making progress as of late to get constituents into eSignal 11.4 The functionality should be available as will hundreds of lists we've procured thus far. We still need to source some of the more popular indices to make this a complete offering and we're certainly trying to do that in the coming weeks/months.

Thanks.