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title: "Quality data entry is crucial…but not a fun job"
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description: "Quality data entry is crucial…but not a fun job Posted by Admin on Sep 30, 2011 in Beta News! | 2 Comments Creating a database in ArbMaker is a…"
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# Quality data entry is crucial…but not a fun job

Published 2026-08-10

Posted by Admin on Sep 30, 2011 in Beta News!

Creating a database in ArbMaker is a straightforward upload of a .csv or .txt file. But as with all databases the file preparation – especially consistent, word perfect classification of companies by sector and industry – is meticulous work critical to maintaining the overall integrity of the database.

Because this is regarded as fun by only a select few we have put together a few thousand symbols for users. These are cut by country, exchange, sector and industry and will be included in our biannual and annual subscription deals on demand.

There is currently symbol data for 24 countries lining up like this:

NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX (>6,600 symbols)

TSE 60 components + 80 others

Bloomberg Bovespa Index components

MerVal 25 components

IPC components

LSE mid & large caps sample (>500 symbols)

OMX 30 components

Norway OBX (26 symbols)

Denmark C20

XETRA mid & large caps sample (>90 symbols)

Zurich SMI

IBEX 35

Milan MIB

ISEQ 20

Euronext mid & large caps sample (>400 symbols from France, Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal)

NSE 50 components

KOSPI 50 components

NZX 50 components

ASX 50 components

Singapore Straits Times Index components

Hang Seng Index components

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