ETF Historical Data
Q: I have been recently designing a trading system that uses a mixed bag of highly liquid ETFs. Doing any kind of testing on ETFs is becoming a challenge due to the lack of data. ETFs didn't really become popular until about 5 years ago, and some ETFs are newer than 5 years. Do you have any suggestions on trading system development with limited data? At this point I plan to test something on SPY, DIA, and QQQQ data and trade other ETFs with that system. Thoughts?
A:You can get a free historical download of all of those ETF you want to test, plus all of the test from YAHOO finance. Just go to Yahoo.com and the go to finance. Enter your symbol and then click historical data. You can download it to Excel. Or better yet you can get XLQ for free with a 30 day trail and it will get the data for you.
