Download historical financial data from Yahoo!

Retrieve historical stock data from Yahoo! Finance
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Updated 28 Jan 2018

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Retrieves historical stock data for the ticker symbols in Asset cell array (ticker symbol and yahoo stock exchange symbol), between the dates specified by Date1 (beginning) and Date2 (end) in the Matlab datenums format. The program returns the stock data in xls at '/Data' folder, giving the Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, and Adjusted Close price adjusted for dividends and splits.

For PERSONAL, INFORMATIONAL use ONLY.

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Example:

Asset = {
'AAPL','';
'ANA','MC';
'BKIA','MC';
'CDR','MC';
'ENG','MC';
'GLD','';
'IAG','MC';
'LYXIB','MC';
'MT','AS';
'OHL','MC';
'ITX','MC';
'SAN','MC';
'TEF','MC'
};
Asset = table(Asset(:,1), Asset(:,2), 'VariableNames', {'Symbol', 'SE'});
Date1 = '26-Jan-2017';
Date2 = '27-Jan-2018';
interval = '1d';

downloadStocksData(Asset,Date1,Date2,interval)

Cite As

Aitor Roca (2024). Download historical financial data from Yahoo! (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/64218-download-historical-financial-data-from-yahoo), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2017a
Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
Windows macOS Linux
Acknowledgements

Inspired: Yahoo! Finance Data Loader

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Version Published Release Notes
1.3.0.0

Bugs fixed.

1.2.0.0

Now creates 'Data' folder and then add to the path

1.1.0.0

Now checks if data is numeric.

1.0.0.0