I'm using Yahoo's stock API to get stock quotes, as described here.
Basically, I just assemble a link like this:
http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=DOW+MSFT+AAPL+GOOG&f=snl1
which'll give me a list of the current price for those stocks (DOW, MSFT, AAPL, GOOG).
All's nice and dandy, but I'd also like to get the info for the NASDAQ and S&P 500 Indices, but I have no idea what to use as the symbol for those.
I tried all of these:
NASDAQ
INDEXNASDAQ
INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC
INDEXNASDAQ.IXIC
IXIC
to no avail.
It seems like I have the whole idea flawed (I don't really know much about finance).
Can anyone help me with this?
Use the same symbols you see on the corresponding Yahoo finance page.
Nasdaq = ^IXIC
S&P = ^GSPC
Dow = ^DJI