Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
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I know GTR had a major blow up a bit ago. It seems like Robbie, et.al., have returned much of the functionality, thank you to whomever! Will yahoo ETFs and other funds be available again? I tried a couple of symbols like SPY and QQQ but I get "Historical data for ticker symbol 'BIL' could not be downloaded from Yahoo! Finance."
Thank you
Brian
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My understanding is that changes made by Yahoo caused GTR to be unable to access/use the ticker data.
Smufty
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You can still download historical data from yahoo, but it is very tricky. Took me a while to figure it out.
Problem last time was that once people figured it out, they posted it all over the internet. Which undoubtedly eventually caught Yahoo's attention.
Plus Yahoo is grubbing for money; they are putting more and more stuff behind a paywall.
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Well that's too bad. What a great tool. Thank you for the news.
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I always wondered by Yahoo was so generous with the data. The quant mod R package still gets Yahoo symbols, hopefully that'll continue.
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Excellent suggestion! I use quantmod functions for other analysis - dont know why this slipped my mind.
I use Yahoo! sparingly - but its currently the ONLY free source for Russell ( the actual index - if you have historical data stored you can use IWM as a proxy)
Here's the code :
#install.packages("tidyquant") I commented it out - you will need to install if you dont have it already
library(tidyquant)
symbol="^RUT"
df <- tq_get(symbol, get = "stock.prices", from = "1980-01-01")
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Google Sheets still access exchange data including Yahoo Finance (and others) behind the scenes through the Googlefinance function. You can get historical data for any time period with the command (admittedly somewhat cryptic) in a cell:
=query(GOOGLEFINANCE("YOURSYMBOL","PRICE",workday(today(),!ANEGATIVENUMBEROFLOOKBACKDAYS!),today(),"WEEKLY" OR "DAILY"))
FC
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Google Sheets still access exchange data including Yahoo Finance (and others) behind the scenes through the Googlefinance function
Can it get adjusted price or only price?
Aussi
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I'm not sure. I only really use history for indexes, which unless a miracle has happened, are not div-adjusted in GF. For the major indexes I follow I grab dividends over the specific timefrme from yahoo and calc the adjusted price.
