I obtain quotes from Yahoo Finance and was a bit perplexed earlier as the latest prices didn’t show up on PP.
Had a quick check of a few stocks and funds on Yahoo’s site - from what I can tell there’s now a requirement to login to view historical data. Here’s a thread on Reddit where someone comments it will now cost c. $500/year to have a Premium membership in order to access this!!
Hopefully there’s a work around to this… In the meantime I was just wondering if anybody had any tips or views as to more affordable (free ideally ) sources that could be potentially used instead?
Thanks for getting to me @Harry_Hirsch. I definitely go along with what you say re’ the reliability of Yahoo. Its back up today which is sort of good, but how long is it going to remain that way!
Hi @AndreasB, Early last week I couldn’t download any pricing data whatsoever from Yahoo Finance - that’s to say this wasn’t an issue relating to a single instrument.
As I posted a few days ago, this method of downloading data from Yahoo Finance is up and running again now, but in my mind this experience has left bit of a question mark as to whether it can really be trusted as being reliable. Think there maybe a JSON alternative which I’m currently looking into…
Good to know that PP can retrieve Yahoo JSON , thanks.
If a new instrument is added, that uses Yahoo Finance as a data source and was derived from one of PPs predefined listings, will the data be obtained using this (JSON) approach, or will it instead be retrieved via the ‘CSV file’ method? I’m of the view that the JSON method worked early last week whilst the latter didn’t, hence my reason for asking this.