[Beginner] Is there free data feed?

Discussion in 'Data Sets and Feeds' started by jk90029, Apr 20, 2016.

  1. Thanks for helpful reply.
    I should choose roughly 300 (at most 500) good equities, for my personal logic. (Not interested in option/future+commodity+else) Possibly some of them are SnP500.

    I wonder if BATS is related to my good(???) 500 equities.
     
    #11     Apr 20, 2016
  2. For the option/future traders, it is worth to pay substantial amount for the feed.

    However I am strictly equity trader who has a trading logic with 5-min or possibly 15-min.
     
    #12     Apr 20, 2016
  3. Wrong. $15 *12 (months) * 50 (years) = 9K.
    If you make every month $100 profit you will have net 51K profits after 50 years.
    What are you waiting for? :D
     
    #13     Apr 20, 2016
  4. NoBias

    NoBias

    #14     Apr 20, 2016
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  5. The above link https://help.yahoo.com/kb/finance/SLN2310.html?impressions=true
    might be my best choice, in my personal situation for my trading logic.

    And simple R commands is already available as below, and furthermore it covers worldwide. (DO NOT pay to every countries)

    install.packages("quantmod")
    library(quantmod)
    getSymbols
    ("MSFT",from ="1990-01-01",to="2014-08-28")
    head(MSFT)
     
    #15     Apr 20, 2016
  6. Multiple subscription is also available

    NY <- new.env()
    tickerNY <-c("ABT" , "ABBV" , "ACE" , "ZION" , "ZTS") ##SnP 500개
    tickersWW <- c("8301:JP", "DBK:GR", "GOOGL:US", "RR/:LN", "AIG:US")
    getSymbols(tickerNY, src="yahoo" , env=NY , from="2014-01-01")


    I should be appreciated with worldwide service by yahoo/google.
     
    #16     Apr 20, 2016
  7. #17     Apr 20, 2016
  8. Thanks. But there is some possibility in Excel MACRO that may have hidden contents.
    Most traders prefer clear program (with NO MACRO), such as free R or Python
     
    #18     Apr 20, 2016
  9. you can get free" real-time data would be if you have a brokerage account with a broker that provides the data at no cost to the client. TD Ameritrade and E*Trade do for example. TDA has an API available. You can use the broker's own tools to display the data, or you can get Medved Trader for it:
    http://www.medvedtrader.com

    right now we don't have an API, but will in the future, which will allow you to access any data that MT has access to, via MT's API, thus avoiding the need to write to different APIs or situations where an API is not available
     
    #19     Apr 20, 2016
  10. You do NOT have to provide API.

    Every(?) broker provides web-trading. If you do, we can use Selenium to access your webpage easily.
     
    #20     Apr 20, 2016