finance.stock.google Obtaining indices data, namely hist. prices

asked 2013-06-10 20:19:09 +0100

ernestyalumni gravatar image

updated 2015-01-14 10:08:45 +0100

FrédéricC gravatar image

This is related to either the finance.stock.google() or sage.finance.stock.Stock().google() modular functions:

Is there a way to obtain data, namely historical prices, of indices, namely the S&P500?

I had tried the following:

sage.finance.stock.Stock("INDEXSP:INX", 626307).google(startdate="Jan+1,+1900")[:5]

But it didn't retrieve anything.

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See http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/13884 for an issue with the change in how Google Finance did things, which could be directly related.

kcrisman gravatar imagekcrisman ( 2013-06-11 09:25:08 +0100 )edit

Thanks. I looked at that link. It doesn't address how it queries the specific equity. I'm looking to obtain data on an index.

ernestyalumni gravatar imageernestyalumni ( 2013-06-11 18:36:47 +0100 )edit
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