I'm looking for how the constituents of ftse 100 index changes over time, eg which companies were included 10 years ago, which 5 years, which 1 year ago. (and i'd rather not pay for the info!) many thanks.
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You can get the current constituents from the London Stock Exchange, and you can get loads of data for each of the constituents from Yahoo finance.\n\nhttp://www.londonstockexchange.com/
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You going to have to go on yahoo or google and get that. Also get yo a subscription to wallstreet journal. It has all that sutff on their website, but you have to look for it.
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I bought my first stocks 5 years ago. at first I didn't really know what I was doing. I just bought what I thought was good. but then I started reading about value investing and learning how to actually value a company to assess wether or not I was getting a good price for the stock.\n\nI use a valuation method that uses EPS, although most people recommend using free cash flow as a more accurate measure of a company's financial strength. Basically I try to estimate what a stock will be worth in the future, and what price I would need to buy it at now to ensure a certain rate of return.\n\nI try to keep my estimates very conservative, to have a large margin of error. so far, in 5 years, I have a total return of 43%, compared to 12.5% for the S&P 500. That comes out to 10.25% annualized, vs. 2.5% for the S&P.
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this will answer all ur questions\nhttp://164.100.24.208/ls/abs%20series/index.htm
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Why not look at the stocks and shares of two large companies over a period of months/years. use statistical approaches (moving averages etc.) and forecast the following years trend. compare and contrast the percentage increases/decreases and investigate where a consumers money would be best spent.\nhope this is useful. you didn't state what year of your Bsc this was for.
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www.ft.com is a great place to start\n(btw - this is Financial Times, London)
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Allow me to add just a little bit to the first responder. This data is not very helpful in determining good stocks to buy.  The only helpful data presented is the P/E and the dividend and market cap.  The pe only tells you how expensive the stock is in relation to its earnings.  That is helpful.   For example Microsoft is a fairly expensive stock.  The average pe of the S&P 500 is around 17, so MSFT is considerably more expensive than the average.  The pe is sometimes used in conjuction with the expected growth rate.  The pe is divided by the expected growth rate to give a peg ratio. The lower the peg ratio, the better value a stock is considered to be.   The only problem is the expected growth rate may not materialize.   The market cap tells you the total value people have placed on the company.  In general the larger a company the less likely that the company will experience rapid growth but the more likely the company will experience consistantt earnings, with the exception of the U S automotive manufactures. \n\nThe target price is a bunch of crap.  That is the projected price based on analysts' projections.  Most analysts can not find their rears with both hands.  If you look at all the analysts ecommendations for a stock you will find them scattered all over the map, from sell to strong buy, with a preponderance of buy recommendations because that is how brokerage firms make their money, selling stocks.  \n\nYahoo finance has a very decent site for researching stocks.  If you have an on line stock broker, they will also have research materal.  Some more than others.  Fidelity, I believe, has the most.  Fool.com has a CAPS section where you can find out what 26000 investors think are the best stocks to buy and the worst.  I find it very interesting and the basis for further research.
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yahoo finance and digitallook both provide free annual reports, they are all PLC's but there will be small AIM companies (market cap 6mill maybe)
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In general you can't find out that info. I recall one fund manager mentioned that he was going to give frequent updates on portfolio positions. However I don't remember who it was.\n\nSince most fund managers fail to beat the indexes over time, the truth is it does not matter what they are doing. But the index funds for bullish positions, buy the double inverse Rydex or Profunds when in bear mode.
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Very few Internet sites will have historical prices like this. The only way to find these prices would be to contact the NYSE directly and hope they have it archived, or contact Bloomberg. I know that Bloomberg have a historical price record of every single listed company in the world (among other things), but it isn't cheap. You will have to use cost-benefit analysis.\n\nAlternatively, if you are working in a chartered accounting firm, go up to your Corporate Finance department, and ask them, as they will have a Bloomberg terminal you can use.
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Intraday is a bit tougher to find without having to pay for it, especially for long periods of time.  \n\nTradestation claims to have 10-20 yrs of intraday info, so you might start there.  \n\neSignal also has excellent data.\n\nThat said, many strategies that can be tested out on opening/closing prices or on intraday data can also be tested on daily data as well.  \n\nSo if you're looking for historical daily data, it's simple!\n\nGo to Yahoo finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) \n\nType in your symbol of the stock you’re looking for\n\nThen on the left, click on historical quotes.  \n\nNow, you can then type in the date range you want and choose daily/weekly/etc and download the data to excel or wherever.\n\n\nOr if you prefer, you can go to this link instead.  Just replace GOOG with the stock symbol that you’re looking for. \n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=GOOG\n\n\nHave fun!\n\n\n*The adjusted price is the stock price adjusted for splits.  So if a stock was at 100, and split 2 for 1 to 50, the adjusted price would show you the price as if the stock had always been at 50 so you can determine the real change in value of that stock over time.
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I believe Google trades on the LSE as GGEA.\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GGEA.L\n\nAlso, most UK brokers can also buy shares of US-traded firms for their clients.  I expect you would pay up a bit on commissions.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EGSPC
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I'm not quite sure of the correct answer, in fact that's how I found this question, is that I was wondering. In any case, here is a good article I found even though it was written over 7 months ago.(changes may have occured)\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4427718.stm
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I started my investing with Edward Jones. They are lucrative and they have strict requirements before even considering someone for employment.  I have long since moved onto my own (and have done very well at it too) for first timers go ahead and pay the fees to invest in the long run its worth it.
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I am sorry, I tried a lot but dint get any answer.\n\nBut good site for company info is:\nwww.hoovers.com\n\nAlso try to look for your country's stock exchanges websites and search details about listed companies. This way you can get detailed info about listed companies atleast. For unlisted companies, you need to surf search engines. Else look for databases prepared by private players; like in India it is done by an agency called CMIE through its software titled 'Prowess'. \n\nGood luck!!!
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Looks ok to me.  eg:\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT\non Sunday 7th March 2006 shows:\nTrade Time: May 5 \nDay's Range: 23.52 - 23.95\n\nWhich stocks were you looking at, and when?