data-FTSE100: Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index,...

Description Format Details References Examples

Description

Share index of 100 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with the highest market capitalisation. The first series contains the opening prices, the second series contains the closing prices.

Format

A bivariate time series with 607 observations; a zoo object

Details

Obtained from Finanzen.net on 29 May 2017 http://www.finanzen.net/index/FTSE_100/Historisch.

References

Further information on the index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTSE_100_Index

Examples

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FTSE100_open <- FTSE100[,1]
FTSE100_close <- FTSE100[,2]
FTSE100_returns <- (FTSE100_open - FTSE100_close) / FTSE100_close
FTSE100_volatility <- FTSE100_returns^2 - mean(FTSE100_returns^2)
op <- par(mfcol=c(1,2))
plot(FTSE100_close, main = "", ylab="FTSE 100", xlab="year")
plot(FTSE100_volatility, main = "", ylab="returns (sq., ctrd.)", xlab="year")
par(op)

tobiaskley/forecastSNSTSexamples documentation built on May 31, 2019, 4:44 p.m.