Thursday, September 11, 2014

Stock Symbol Change History Nasdaq

Symbols of stocks change due to various reason at the exchange.

A quick google check took me to this url :

http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/stocks/symbol-change-history.aspx

The problem was it was 19 pages . There was no easy way to download them all.

So wrote a small snippet of code that goes through each page and downloads it.

The following code gives you a way to download the stock symbols change.

NASDAQ Symbol Change Matlab code

NASDAQ Symbol change history Excel file