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PseudoScience
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Where can I find free financial data?

January 9th, 2012, 7:31 am

HelloI am looking for historical Australian secondary equity offerings data. Does anyone have access to some databases that have such information and could help me out?EDIT: does anyone have access to SDC Platinum database? Some universities have access and I really need this data for my thesis.Thanks
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ericlarson
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Where can I find free financial data?

December 21st, 2012, 2:25 am

Please consider www.quandl.com.
 
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Where can I find free financial data?

April 17th, 2014, 7:59 pm

Hello.I can't download grains futures from finance.yahoo.comTake: http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.c ... e=.csvThat works with TICKER = MSFT, AAPL, ....But SX14.CBT, sx14.cbt, SX14 or sx14 for CBoT soybean futures Nov-14 doesn't work.What's the trick here, please?
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Where can I find free financial data?

April 17th, 2014, 8:49 pm

QuoteOriginally posted by: tagomaHello.I can't download grains futures from finance.yahoo.comTake: http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.c ... e=.csvThat works with TICKER = MSFT, AAPL, ....But SX14.CBT, sx14.cbt, SX14 or sx14 for CBoT soybean futures Nov-14 doesn't work.What's the trick here, please?OK. No prob. I used Quandl instead.Sorry one can not add code in the 'The Quantitative Finance FAQs Project' forum#Import CBoT Soybean futures Nov-14 from Quandlimport Quandlimport datetime# Tokentoken = 'my_token_is_blablabla'# Timeframe: 2 years ago to todaystart = datetime.datetime.today() - 2 * datetime.timedelta(days=365)end = str(datetime.datetime.now().year) + '-' + \ str(datetime.datetime.now().month) + '-' + \ str(datetime.datetime.now().day)# Ticker for CBoT Soybean futures Nov-14sx4 = 'CME/SX2014'# Object containing the data arraydata = Quandl.get(authtoken = token, dataset = sx4, trim_start = start, trim_end = end)
 
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MHill
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Where can I find free financial data?

June 29th, 2016, 1:15 pm

Just linking two threads with a common theme:http://www.wilmott.com/messageview.cfm? ... TARTPAGE=1
 
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Ethan6

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August 18th, 2017, 2:05 pm

Yes, it's interesting. Thanks!