Where can I get the stock historical (nasdaq level II) data from?
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Probably from commercial sources such as the attached link. You would probably have to pay a bit.
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AVG and Advest\ngo to download.com to get them for free
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The best publication for data is Barron's weekly newspaper. You also might find it on their website, but you might have to join.\n\nIf not there, try your local library. Or call their Technical and Reference Dept. and they'll tell you whether they have it.
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there are many stock web sites to check out.  try the links below.
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Go to Yahoo Finance.  Lookup the stock.  On the left column there will be a link under Ownership titled Major Holders.  At the bottom of that page is a link to "View Transactions for Insiders & Institutional Holders.\n\nThere you go.
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try going to the website  londonstockexchange.com\n\ngood luck
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Metastock and Tradestation are supposed to be the best, but expensive.\n\nI use Stockwiz for French stocks and end-of-day trading. It's completely programmable, which is what I wanted, but the programming language is somewhat primitive. There is a lot of information and examples on the website.  \n\nhttp://www.stockwiz.com/\n\nCaveat:\n- You still need a service to get your daily stockquotes, which is most likely *not* free
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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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It's simple if by returns you mean closing prices.\n\n\nJust go to Yahoo finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) \n\nType in your symbol of the index (or 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 \n\nYou can even 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 index or stock symbol that you’re looking for. \n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=goog\n\nIf you want a different one, just type in the symbol or look it up and type it in. \n\nTo download, just click on the link at the bottom of the page.\n\nHave fun!
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TRY YAHOO STOCK ADVANCED SEARCH.  IT ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH AND COMPARE DIFF STOCKS ON ALMOST ANY ASPECT OF THE STOCK, VOL, SHRS OUTS., DIVD....EXT.  YAHOO/FINANCE/INVESTING/STOCKS/STOCK SCREENER.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/
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one good online source is Bloomberg.com - may take some trolling, but it's a pretty good site for detail on recent transactions
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If you mean software to help you analyze stocks, the one I've used for 10 years or so is called Telechart. It has a small cost but you can try it free for 30 days. Go to www.worden.com and download it if you have a fast internet connection. Otherwise have them send it to on disk.
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If you click on this URL, it will give you the historical quotes for IBM directly from yahoo's finance pages.  The quotes will be in CSV format, and excel will open them right up.\n\nhttp://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=IBM&d=10&e=19&f=2006&g=d&a=0&b=2&c=1962&ignore=.csv
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you should go to the microsoft website and download their quote program.\n\nExcel 2003/2002 Add-in: MSN Money Stock Quotes \nBrief Description\nThis add-in for Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Excel 2002 allows you to get dynamic stock quotes from the MSN Money Web site. The add-in allows you to easily gather and study the stocks of interest to you.\n\n\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=485fccd8-9305-4535-b939-3bf0a740a9b1&DisplayLang=en
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take historical closing prices from the stock you want to calculate the beta depending on your time frame of work. then take the historical closing price of the S&P 500 in the same period. Download it to a spreadsheet or excel.\nCalculatethe daily return (price 2-price 1)/price 1 on the stock and the S&P. Go to excel and execute a linear regression between the two subset of values.\nVoila you will have a equation stock return = alpha + beta(s&p return).\n\nIf you want to make it more complicated you can go to the CPM model and use the risk-free interest rate, but there is little use about it. At the end, you believe whatever Valueline, bloomberg is telling you.
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normally I would just go to finance.yahoo.com and pull up historical price quotes. since Sears is now Sears Holding Co, it would seem like you can't do that. you could email Sears Investor relations from the corporate website, or you could go to the Library and check out the film on a copy of The Wall Street Journal or just about any newspaper that listed stock prices.