Hi
Thanks for the reply
I just checked the NSE site at for bank of Baroda's symbol
it is BANKBARODA!! and not 9 digits it is 10 digits. With the suffix .Ns it becomes 13 digits and has consistently been blank on my F charts !!!
alternative
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If this is NOT workable are there any OTHER DOWNLOAD SITES THAT I CAN USE with F charts SE ?
are there BSE data available for F charts ? at least BSE has some company numbers and I can use the company numbers
regards
hi vinayak,
the nse symbol for bank of baroda is 'bankbaroda' (10chars) only.
the old yahoo symbol was 'bob.ns for nse & bob.bo for bse. yahoo had the practice of abbreviating all company names to a max of 4 chars at that time and use the exchange suffixes '.ns' for 'nse' & '.bo' for bse.
as many TA software used yahoo data, they too adopted the same nomenclature.
the new yahoo symbol is 'bankbarod.ns' for nse & '532134.bo' for bse. at this point, yahoo took a deviation from the earlier practice. now nse symbol is the first 9 chars of nse symbol followed by the exchange sufffix. yahoo had the limitation of 12 chars for the entire symbol, out of which 3 (example '.ns' ) are reserved for exchange and what remains is 9 chars.
for bse, they have shifted to the bse numerical symbol followed by the exchange code.
there is nothing special about the symbol. it is just a abbreviation/shortcut to a company name. then which one should one use? well, the answer is anyone, consistently the same. once you select the data source for eod & intraday, the choices are fixed by the source. for obvious reasons, you would like to have the same symbol for eod data & intraday data.
yahoo is still a popular intraday data source. you have more intraday data retreival software based on yahoo data than other sources/ formats. and nse & bse sites are the natural & reliable data sources. so eod data download/ convertion utilities prefer to get eod data from the exchanges & convert the symbols to yahoo format & the data format will be as required by the TA software.
TA software has the ability to get from within the program to get & display the data/ chart for the selected stock. for this reason it will be better that all symbols may be based on yahoo's current symbols standard.
coming to your question of selecting the data source for FCharts, you may use the various downloader/ converters provided within the forum.
http://www.traderji.com/54514-post1.html
by this way you have the ability to choose the format & download for the period required by you. if your hard disc data is corrupted for any reason, you may download it again. and everything is within your control.
all the best.
MurthyMSR