[R-SIG-Finance] Futures prices in quantmod?

[Joshua Ulrich]

Hi Guillaume,

Try:

> getQuote("^DJS2")
               Trade Time   Last Change % Change   Open   High    Low Volume
^DJS2 2009-12-07 11:14:00 103.73  -1.08   -1.03% 103.73 103.73 103.73      0

HTH,
Josh
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http://www.fosstrading.com



On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Guillaume Yziquel
<guillaume.yziquel at citycable.ch> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I was wondering if there was a way for quantmod's getSymbols to retrieve
> prices for futures. Some information seems available on yahoo, for instance:
>
> http://finance.yahoo.com/futures?t=indices
>
> http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=%5EDJS2&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv
>
> So is it possible to do it with quantmod?
>
> All the best,
>
> --
>     Guillaume Yziquel
> http://yziquel.homelinux.org/
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