# Ruby Finance

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-finance/131804>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 13, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-finance/131804 "2008-03-13T12:40:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 13, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-finance/131804/1 "2008-03-13T12:40:36Z")

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Hi,

I am a ruby novice working with financial data. I am developing a  
portfolio strategy evaluation technique to back-test the performance  
of our screens; checking how the screened stock would’ve performed  
over the period in question.

I am using quantmod in R to download the historical data from yahoo  
and then analyzing it using PerformanceAnalytics. My problem is that,  
as our screens are done using Bloomberg, my list of screened stocks  
only has Bloomberg tickers and ISINs. Does anybody know of a ruby  
method (or otherwise) which could convert ISINs to yahoo tickers/  
symbols?? Or a method of accessing yahoo historical data from an ISIN  
(instead of a symbol call)?

Thank you!!