Hello Mustachians,
I was researching index data in order to calculate returns of different indices over time. Some of my ETFs use STOXX Indices as a reference, however the indices exist much longer than the actual fonds. I was researching the index providers website for historical data and it turns out that you can only download data from the last year. I contacted the costumer support and asked if I could use older data for private use and they send me part of the data I asked for, that was nice. However, they only sent me the price index and not the total return index data. Of course I could email again an ask again but that is quite complicated after all, I don't want to be too annoying plus they probably have to deal with paying customers as well. So I don't want to waste anyones time.
I figured out that the data is not a secret at all (after all they sent me some of it) and it is possible to show the graph of the performance in a small web-addin. Here is the URL:
https://www.stoxx.com/index-details?symbol=SXW1GR You can choose the timeframe you are interested in an the graph of the data is plotted. So the data is there, just not in a shape that is accessible for excel.
So I was thinking if it was possible to somehow extract the data directly somehow. If that is possible I could research all the different indices without wasting the time of customer support (especially because I'm not a paying customer). Also, if anyone is interested, I could post my findings somewhere in this forums (I basically want to compare the dividend yield of the indices with the actual yield in order to get a feeling about how expensive the stoxx in the specific index are compared to an historical average).
So if some savvy web programmer could help me with the extraction I would be very pleases.
Thank you in advance
Dachs
