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Sidebar: Argh. I've played with alpha several times and each time gave up in frustration. Just now I wanted to know "What's the history of the closing price
by DanielBMarkham 13y ago
Sidebar:
Argh.
I've played with alpha several times and each time gave up in frustration.
Just now I wanted to know "What's the history of the closing price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in ounces of gold over the last 50 years?"
Spent 15 minutes fooling around. Finally got the pricing data in working separate queries, but couldn't combine it. So I asked to download the files -- only to be bugged to sign up.
Must be a totally awesome system. I can't make heads or tails of it.
Meh.
- nabla9 13y agoWas your intention to compare gold and DOW as investments for long term? In that case you should ask question: "What is the price of Dow Jones Industrial Average dividends reinvested in ounces of gold?" In long term, the majority of value in stock markets comes from dividends. That does not show in stock price graphs.
- DanielBMarkham 13y agoNo. I wanted to see how the stock market change would look if, instead of being priced in dollars, it was priced in some form of commodity, like gold. So if one day the index closed at 1000, and gold was 200/ounce, it would have closed at 5 ounces. Thanks for the help, though.
- marvin 13y agoIf not even nabla9 can understand what you were really asking, it shouldn't come as a surprise that an NLP program couldn't ;)