Can we use webpage, to download curent price?

Discussion in 'Data Sets and Feeds' started by jk90029, Feb 8, 2016.

  1. If so, I can wait until my friend help me, for web crawling at the free/open yahoo/finance data.
     
    #11     Feb 9, 2016
  2. d08

    d08

    Code it by yourself or search for sample code. If you can't make it then you probably shouldn't be trading.
     
    #12     Feb 9, 2016
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  3. Good to hear from you. Someone recommends to study Python/ PANDAS+urllib+beatifulsoup and somewhere in crawling+parsing.

    However, my primary tool is R so searching for R helper.
     
    #13     Feb 9, 2016
  4. d08

    d08

    For IB there is IbPy (Python) and others with examples online, not sure about R.
     
    #14     Feb 9, 2016
  5. jharmon

    jharmon

    I don't think you're getting the point.

    Crawling (web page scraping) for a serious trader is like asking a talented medical student to perform a heart bypass - sure they'll probably get it right most of the time but when it screws up, you lose.

    By all means, paper trade it or start out with tiny position sizes with scraping but when you are ready to play the real game, get two or more reputable data feeds.
     
    #15     Feb 10, 2016

  6. Of course, each trader has full responsibility for his/her own choice. Furthermore, daytrader requiring tick/second price should listen your words.

    However, my average holding length roughly one or two weeks and therefore need only 1-min or 5-min feed.
    I agree that I should test comparing the yahoo/finance data with other non-free feed, for confirmation, for a while.

    Thanks for the good advice.
     
    #16     Feb 10, 2016
  7. jharmon

    jharmon

    Go to daily and screw using 1 or 5 min. It'll make your life a lot easier.
     
    #17     Feb 15, 2016