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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: rayvt ✧☼🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: GGT Timing update
Date: 11/04/23 9:57 AM
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Links: St. Louis Fed (FRED): Table Data - Advance Real Retail and Food Services Sales | FRED and St. Louis Fed (FRED): Table Data - Industrial Production: Total Index | FRED
You have to look at the "Last Updated:" line.

For bash users, here are the two key lines in my script:
curl -sL "St. Louis Fed (FRED): Table Data - Industrial Production: Total Index | FRED" >z1
sed -n '/^[12][0-9][0-9][0-9]-/p' z1 | awk ' $1 >= "1950" {print $0}' | sort -r -k1,1 -u - ind_db.txt | tac >ind_db.txt
(Although I now see that there is a potential race condition on the file ind_db.txt. Not safe to read and write the same file in a pipe.)

My script runs every day and downloads & keeps the most recent file from FRED. Below is a list of the last handful. You can see that the updates come around the middle of the month and sometimes also get an update a few days or weeks later.

rrsfs-2023-10-17.txt
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