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Paul
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Where can I find free financial data?

March 5th, 2004, 10:49 am

We should compile a definitive list, although there is already quite a bit of info scattered throughout the Forums, for example.P
 
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Where can I find free financial data?

March 5th, 2004, 10:52 pm

Great idea, Paul! For starters, here are a few of my favorite sites, which I'm sure most people know of, that have some free data:1. Historical FX Rates: http://oanda.com/convert/fxhistory2. Historical Stock Prices: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=yhoo3. Recent LIBOR rates: http://www.bba.org.uk/public/libor/4. Some Implied Volatilities: http://www.ivolatility.com5. Delayed Commodities: http://www.liffe-commodities.com/6. US Fundamentals: http://www.sec.govOf course, I also like some economic data:UK: http://www.statistics.gov.ukUS: http://www.census.gov , http://www.bls.gov , http://www.federalreserve.gov , http://www.ssa.gov , http://www.treasury.govWhat would be really nice to have is a concise list here that includes good sources of international data...
 
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March 8th, 2004, 1:02 pm

I am looking for somewhat specific financial datasets. I need prices sampled three times per trading day: open, middle day and close. May be someone can advice where such time series available for free.
 
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March 10th, 2004, 11:50 pm

You can try www.dukascopy.com. See other discussion in the technical forum. They provide Daily and also Hourly High,low,close prices from which you can extract the centre open, mid and close prices. Their hourly history has a GMT time stamp I think.
 
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Where can I find free financial data?

April 13th, 2004, 5:36 pm

Hi all,Where can I find data (Standard & Poor, specifically) tick-by-tick down to 1-minute? Finance.yahoo.com only provides daily closing prices. I am doing some research on the dynamics of markets, so high-frequency data are essential. Please help. Thanks a lot.
 
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May 31st, 2004, 8:42 am

Back in college days when I did my thesis, I got the help of a friend who works in a bank. Basically all data from Bloomie, Reuters I had access to with her help. This is another great way to get free financial data... guess not all FX traders are arrogant BSDs!
 
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June 15th, 2004, 11:13 pm

Hear are a few for Forex that I use that are free:This first one was mentioned but I thought I would give the direct link,there are also other types of data at this site including live(real time) data feeds free.DukascopyHere is a downloader for the site above that is free fromWorkSmartsThis one I just found recently out of Russia, I can't vouch for the quality of the data asI haven't had a chance to use yet but looks like they have intraday going back quite a ways.Finam
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June 18th, 2004, 6:42 am

QuoteWhere can I find data (Standard & Poor, specifically) tick-by-tick down to 1-minute? Finance.yahoo.com only provides daily closing prices. I am doing some research on the dynamics of markets, so high-frequency data are essential. Please help. Thanks a lot. I hate be the bearer of bad news, but high frequency data is going to cost you. Are you conducting research at a University? Usually they have access to high freq. data, and many (including mine) allow access to Bloomberg terminals.
 
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June 18th, 2004, 2:12 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: adasQuoteWhere can I find data (Standard & Poor, specifically) tick-by-tick down to 1-minute? Finance.yahoo.com only provides daily closing prices. I am doing some research on the dynamics of markets, so high-frequency data are essential. Please help. Thanks a lot. I hate be the bearer of bad news, but high frequency data is going to cost you. Are you conducting research at a University? Usually they have access to high freq. data, and many (including mine) allow access to Bloomberg terminals. And specifically, if you are at the University of California, the Berkeley Options Database has tick-by-tick spot and option quotes and trades, but unfortunately only between 1976-1997. For a fee, Berkeley will send you parts of it for commercial or academic research, or if you can tolerate spending some time there amidst all the pollen, political activism, traffic, badly-dressed women, and high state taxes, it certainly is a nice side benefit to have access to that data.
 
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June 18th, 2004, 11:38 pm

Quoteif you can tolerate spending some time there amidst all the pollen, political activism, traffic, badly-dressed women, and high state taxes, it certainly is a nice side benefit to have access to that data. Now I'm really hoping I get accepted to their PhD program!
 
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June 24th, 2004, 2:04 pm

I had the same issue with high-freq data when I was in college. My solution was to d/l it from yahoo every minute. The problem is, you need to wait around forever. Obviously, the practicality of this is entirely dependent on your time constraints.
 
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November 19th, 2004, 4:34 pm

I looked up the Berkeley Options Data Base and saw that they no longer offer access to the historical intra-day options data for the CBOE. Does anybody know if there's another good source for historical options tick data? I've been looking for while now, but haven't been able to come up with anything yet.
 
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December 1st, 2004, 11:40 pm

hi, does anyone know where i can get reasonably priced historical intraday FX data? I don't need tick by tick data like the stuff Olsen provides.Thanks
 
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December 23rd, 2004, 6:49 pm

So besides the BBA site for 1-12 month LIBOR fixings (I got the URL http://www.bba.org.uk/bba/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=141&a=627), does anyone have a site to get free data on long-term interest rates, say swap rates or goverment strips out to 10-30 years?