Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Step-by-step guide to fetch historical and daily end of day data and technical indicators (NYSE/Nasdaq) in Python

Hello /r/StockMarket Python is a powerful language to collect and make sense of large volume of data. In this tutorial, we are gonna learn how to fetch historical and daily end of day data and technical indicators, use it in a Pandas data frame (a useful object to manipulate financial data) and plot it with Matplotlib. This tutorial was made using Python 3.5, Requests 2.10 (HTTP library), Pandas 0.18 (Data Analysis library) and Matplotlib 1.5.1 (2D plotting library).

You can read the tutorial here
If you are familiar with Python and want to jump straight to the code, you can access it here
To learn more about Stockvider, the API used to fetch the data in the tutorial, click here

Thank you for your time and fire away if you have any question you would like to ask.



Submitted June 07, 2016 at 02:45PM by ahirice http://ift.tt/1PEQj7a

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