Showing posts with label stocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stocks. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Matlab - Yahoo Finance Interface (from Matlab File Exchange)

You can also find a code to capture Yahoo Finance data into Matlab at the Matlab File Exchange sute. The code requires Java and the Financial Toolbox.

The file description from the original link follows:
This is the example code for the News and Notes article entitled "Internet Enabled Data Analysis and Visualization with MATLAB." It demonstrates how to use Java to retrieve and plot data publically available on the Internet, using historical stock data from the Yahoo! servers as an example. Note that the Yahoo! historical stock price server is often very busy during the US business day -- you may have trouble connecting. Try again after 4:30pm Eastern (US) Time.

How to Download Historical Stock Data into Matlab | Luminous Logic

How to Download Historical Stock Data into Matlab | Luminous Logic

A very interesting blog and blog post for those of us who want to download free financial data into Matlab.
I haven´t looked into his code yet, but it´s always good to have a starting point. Another suggestion is Ernest Chan´s blog on Quantitative Trading.