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January 23, 2007 4:22 PM

I need help finding downloadable stock exchange info.

I've looked all over for a downloadable list of major (and minor) stock exchanges, with hours of operation and offsets from GMT or another time base. My guess is I have to manually go to each exchange's website, look up their hours and their GMT offsets (or use Wikipedia, etc). Is there a source I can get this from that's better than going site by site?

posted by nj_subgenius to computers & internet (6 comments total)

I've looked all over for a downloadable list of major (and minor)

You could go to a broker like interactive brokers that supports trading on many different exchanges, but they won't be exhaustive.

If you are doing a survey for a research paper, trusting secondary sources of information might cut it. If this is source information for a project that will involve trading or other financial exposure, I strongly urge you to collect the data yourself. It isn't that hard, and you will know that it is good. Use the secondary sources to verify that you got all the exchanges.
posted by b1tr0t at 4:33 PM on January 23, 2007

What kind of information do you need? As you can assume, the best information is proprietary and you will have to pay a hefty fee. The Misbehavior of the Markets demonstrates some of the problems you will run into, and may want to include caveats presented there in your paper.
posted by geoff. at 4:38 PM on January 23, 2007

Depending on what you want to do with the information, you might also want to look into ECNs


What kind of information do you need? As you can assume, the best information is proprietary and you will have to pay a hefty fee.

The OP seems to want a list of exchanges world-wide and their operating hours. That data should be free. It would be difficult to produce an exhaustive list, since there could possibly be an OTC market in Al Qaida futures in Somalia right now. Such a market is unlikely to have a website. Although that is an extreme and contrived example, there could be a lot of minor exchanges that are not well known.
posted by b1tr0t at 4:42 PM on January 23, 2007

There are (if the ISO is a proper example) over 400 of these...I could break them down by market cap traded and cut the list down to 80 or so...
posted by nj_subgenius at 4:54 PM on January 23, 2007

The World Federation of Exchanges lists a few. That and Interactive Brokers' list were the best I could find searching the web.
posted by sfenders at 6:39 PM on January 23, 2007

thanks all
posted by nj_subgenius at 7:34 PM on January 23, 2007