I am able to download all indices with the Historical Stock Market Data item in the Download Manager, except ^DJI, ^DJT, ^DJU, and ^DJA. I get a message that
tell me Yahoo has no data available. What might be wrong?
Looks like Yahoo has changed symbols - Please try DJIA instead of ^DJI - at least that gave me the same quotes as before.
But after looking into it, I have general doubts on the ^DJI and DJIA quotes.
This is what I had in the historical quotes database for ^DJI, downloaded when the downloader was still working for ^DJI, for April 30, 2012: (COHLV sequence)
30.04.2012 00:00:00;13213,63;13228,39;13271,9;13132,8;2147483647;0
Same information was downloaded today using DJIA
30.04.2012 00:00:00;13213,63;13228,39;13271,9;13132,8;2147483647;0
I am not sure why the H and L are different but what I can tell you is that you should use the new version of the Yahoo downloader. Volume are stored in an (int) type and the largest value that this type can handle is "2147483647". The new version fixes this issue.
Also, it looks like Yahoo has divided volume values by 1000.
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