Swiss Indices

[Vic]

Hi Jerry,

The two major Swiss indices, SMI and SPI, are unfortunately not supported by my main data source (IB) for the time being, and I can't figure out how to backfill them using data from Yahoo or Google. I tried at least 15 different combinations.

I'd appreciate if you could tell me how this can be achieved. Here are the respective sites on Google and Yahoo for these indices:

SMI:

https://www.google.com/finance?cid=1052581216806242
http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/^SSMI/news

SPI:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXSWX%3Asxge&ei=ZiOTV6iqM4iisgHznKSYBg
- not supported by Yahoo -

 

Vic

 

[Jerry Medved]

$SSMI is the Yahoo symbol for SMI

As for SPI on Google, MT does not support google for quotes, but if you wanted to bring up a chart backfilled with Google, it would be $SXGE:SWX

[Vic]

Thanks Jerry, this worked, unfortunately no volume data though. 

For anyone interested, the Google Finance data for the SMI can be called using $SMI:SWX

Jerry, if you ever get around to it, it might be easier for new users if you'd set up an alias along the lines you did for the rest of the Swiss market: $SMI:VIRTX for the SMI, $SPI:VIRTX for the SPI.

[Jerry Medved]

We don't really want to do that level of conversion unless it can always be converted from VIRTX to SWX?  

You can switch backfill to google then do Backfill As.. and specify the right Backfill As symbol. MT will remember that crossreference for Google going forward.