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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: platykurtic ✶🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: ESBD - Market re-entry proposal
Date: 11/11/25 3:56 PM
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For the NSYE advn and total, would you mind sharing your data source. As discussed in other threads, different data sources have different values.
It's a bit manual, however I key the data in from the WSJ Markets Diary. I should, but have not bothered to automate the collection, as there's some value in keying the data manually & getting a 'feel' for the breadth of the market along the way. For the volume data I use Yahoo! for ^GSPC also keyed manually.

wsj.com - Market data

For the historical data I (believe I) used unicorn.us.com: Advance Decline data (or similar) and switched to the WSJ source as that most closely matched the historical collection at the time (it also looks like I can push back much further in-time - I may do so as I recently discovered Libreoffice Calc isn't limited to the apparent 10k rows that I thought it was). As a general comment there's been significant drop in freely available data for small individuals. It's interesting as larger operations can likely scrape the data anyway - it's just some programming for them - if they don't buy it outright.
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