SP500desc: S&P 500 symbols

Description Format Details Source See Also Examples

Description

Symbols and descriptions of all stocks in the S&P 500 as of 2011-05-27

Format

A data frame with 498 observations on the following 5 variables.

Symbol

stock symbol

Description

company description

Industry.Division

industry division

Industry.Group

industry group

Industry.Sector

industry sector

Details

This data can easily be downloaded from thinkorswim from tdameritrade. If you have the thinkorswim desktop application, open a quote tab/window. Right click a column header and select "Customize." Select the columns you want, and click ok. Then, click the print icon and select either Export to Excel, or Export to Calc. In Excel, or calc, save as csv.

define_stocks expects it to have the following columns Symbols, descriptions, industry.groups, industry.sectors, industry.division

Source

http://www.tdameritrade.com http://www.thinkorswim.com

See Also

define_stocks, load.instruments

Examples

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gsee/twsInstrument documentation built on May 17, 2019, 8:55 a.m.