How do I find the closing price for several indicies over a long period of time?

Question

such as a couple months. I know yahoo finance and other sites can tell where the market closed but I don't know where to look to find the data for the all of november and october

Answer 1

Actually, you can get the historical index data from Yahoo going back several decades. Here's an example for DJIA:

1. Go to http://finance.yahoo.com

2. In the "Market Summary" box on the left, click on the "Dow" link, where it tells you the current price of the DJIA.

3. Over on the left navigation area, there's a link for "Historical Prices". Click it.

4. You should now be looking at the first display of historical quotes. You can display page after page after page, or you can click on the "Download to Spreadsheet" link on the bottom of the page to download a comma-separated value file of the quotes.

Note that you can also customize the quotes you get on that page by filling in the parameters at the time. You can tell it what time period you want, and whether you want to see the data on daily, monthly, or quarterly basis.

As you can see, for the DJIA index, you can get data back to 1928. To get data for another index, just change which index you click on in step (2). In that step, you can also click on one of the "Indices" link just below there to get a more comprehensive list of indexes.

Answer 2

Search for "closing history daily" plus the name of the index. For example, the Dow Jones history can be found here:

http://eh.net/hmit/dow

Answer 3

simply download aptistock freeware

select ur relative index clik update

u will get date stored in prog file > aptistock > data

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