BrokerDealers, as well as the global universe of “Wall Street Quant Jocks” who depend on running macros to back test, filter and finesse equities, options, and futures-related trading strategies via .xls should want to interrogate the assortment of tools developed by the folks at InvestExcel.net . Our ‘fav’ of the week is what we call the “Ticker Licker”, provided as courtesy for a 3rd party project that called for mapping ticker symbols to a master securities.
Many of the applications courtesy of InvestExcel will need to be sanity-checked for accuracy, but premium services from the company are available. Our database development team here at BrokerDealer.com are happy to endorse this product!