[whatok]

RE: 1, this reinvests dividends:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5ESP500TR

S&P 500 Total Return Index. Calculated intraday by S&P based on the price changes and reinvested dividends of SPX <INDEX> with a starting date of Jan 4, 1988.

[toado85]

I'd love to use something like this or SPY or VFIAX rather than ^GSPC, but that's 38 fewer years of data available. I'll figure something out, though.