Questions tagged [stocks]
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Getting stock symbol from company name
I have a company name and i want to get the stock symbol of that company and all the information related to it. I have tried using yahoo call back Stock ticker symbol lookup API but for some reason it returns a http 400 bad request. Could someone…
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Platform that runs scripts monitoring stock market activity? Possibly executes trades?
Are there any software platforms out there that can be used to run scripts that monitor stock market activity?
I would like to write a script to send myself alerts when certain market conditions occur. Ideally it would also have the ability to…
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Suggested schema to store Stock Prices
I've exhausted my google-fu and cannot get anything like an answer, so I thought I'd ask here.
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I run a forum centered around an American Football based video game (BloodBowl). Each member has their own team, and we run leagues and…
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Capture Yahoo finance stock data symbols for daily break out, leaders, etc?
I am trying to figure out if there is a way to capture using free Yahoo Finance stock data:
1. Daily 'leaders' with stock symbols, ETFs, options, etc.
2. Any breakout symbols using any classic tecnical analysis indicatoras?
3. Can this be done in…
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Is there a free or relatively cheap stock market holidays api?
We're developing a trading app where one can enter previous trades including date and time of the trade. For validation purposes I need to know if a stock exchange was open on the day the user specifies.
Does anyone know of an API or similar where I…
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google finance stocks day range
How can I get the day range of any stock symbol? http://finance.google.com/finance/info?client=ig&q=NASDAQ:MSFT gives me a bunch of info but only want the high and low of the day. I looked into the google finance API and I don't think it gives me…
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Parsing SEC Edgar XML file using Ruby into Nokogiri
I'm having problems parsing the SEC Edgar files
Here is an example of this file.
The end result is I want the stuff between and into a format I can access.
Here is my code so far that doesn't work:
scud =…
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Running total per category for each day in pandas dataframe
I have a pandas dataframe with stock transactions which do not happen every day and not for each stock:
Goal is to get the (daily) weights of each stock for each day.
Starting table and expected result
This means
- creating a full calendar of…
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How to add conditions with moving day averages in pandas?
Homework Question need help to solve:
strategy: buy whenever the price goes above the 50-day moving average, and then sell after 3 trading sessions. How much profit (in %) would we make on average? On trading day x, we say that the price "goes…
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Compute daily returns from cumulative returns
I have a dataframe with cumulative stock returns from 1 to 5 days:
1dReturn 2dReturn 3dReturn 4dReturn 5dReturn
Ticker
LUNA -3.077 -3.077 -6.923 -6.915 -6.615
YTEN …
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Python webscraping - realtime data
I am trying scrape the live data at the to of this page:
https://www.wallstreet-online.de/devisen/euro-us-dollar-eur-usd-kurs/realtime
My current method:
import time
import re
import bs4 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as soup
import requests
while…
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plotting candlesticks with ticks of 1 minute
I'm trying to plot candlestick_ohlc with ticks of 1 minute and the graph looks like this:
plot result
I looked on the site and i tried to implement all the answers about questions like this, and yet, the result was the same grpah.
I think the the…
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create ts object for stock hourly data in r
I am new to R and have been trying to create a ts object for the stock market hourly data on which I can apply time series analysis.
an example of my data looks like below (I'll take hourly volume data for a stock in this case):
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Create 5 min bars out of 1 min bars in R
I have these data
Open High Low Close
1 6709.0 6709.5 6703.5 6705.0
2 6705.0 6710.5 6705.0 6710.0
3 6710.5 6713.5 6710.5 6713.5
4 6713.5 6713.5 6711.5 6712.0
5 6712.5 6715.0 6712.5 6714.0
6 6714.0 6716.0 6713.5 6716.0
which are OHLC prices…
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Reading a JSON of Stock Market Data in R
I am learning R and trying to import some stock market data. The sample data is
{"2017-12-07 13:07:00": {"1. open": "169.7800", "2. high": "169.9100", "3. low": "169.7800", "4. close": "169.8500", "5. volume": "20659"}, "2017-12-07 13:06:00": {"1.…
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