Yahoo Finance Api - NYSE/AMEX listed

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gaihosa

I have found that using the yahoo chart api via a http request (either in code, a web browser or using wget) it will not accept stock symbols from the NYSE/AMEX listing that are Preferred, Preferred Class “A”*, Class “A”*, etc. Not sure where else to post this. This link shows the Security Categorization and Suffixes of hich I have tried adding all the the symbol with no luck. http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=CQSsymbolconvention

These are the urls I have been trying to work with.

http://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/ABR/chartdata;type=quote;range=1y/csv

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ABR&a=05&b=01&c=2015&d=05&e=01&f=2016&g=d&ignore=.csv

ABR has four listings:


ABR|ArborRealtyTrustCommonStock|NYSE-AMEX
ABR$A|ArborRealtyTrustPreferredSeriesA|NYSE-AMEX
ABR$B|ArborRealtyTrustCumulativeRedeemablePreferredSeriesB|NYSE-AMEX
ABR$C|ArborRealtyTrustCumulativeRedeemablePreferredSeriesC|NYSE-AMEX

Interesting enough, all work in the finance.yahoo.com website.

I my code I am using C++ and Curl.
 
gaihosa said:
I have found that using the yahoo chart api via a http request (either in code, a web browser or using wget) it will not accept stock symbols from the NYSE/AMEX listing that are Preferred, Preferred Class “A”*, Class “A”*, etc. Not sure where else to post this. This link shows the Security Categorization and Suffixes of hich I have tried adding all the the symbol with no luck. http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=CQSsymbolconvention

These are the urls I have been trying to work with.

http://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/ABR/chartdata;type=quote;range=1y/csv

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=ABR&a=05&b=01&c=2015&d=05&e=01&f=2016&g=d&ignore=.csv

ABR has four listings:


ABR|ArborRealtyTrustCommonStock|NYSE-AMEX
ABR$A|ArborRealtyTrustPreferredSeriesA|NYSE-AMEX
ABR$B|ArborRealtyTrustCumulativeRedeemablePreferredSeriesB|NYSE-AMEX
ABR$C|ArborRealtyTrustCumulativeRedeemablePreferredSeriesC|NYSE-AMEX

Interesting enough, all work in the finance.yahoo.com website.

I my code I am using C++ and Curl.
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The Yahoo symbology for preferred's for your examples is:

ABR-PA
ABR-PB
ABR-PC

As an aside, the Yahoo symbology does have the potential for ambiguity/inconsistency; but for these three cases, the symbology is unambiguous (within reason).

If only everyone could have agreed on a uniform symbology 20 years ago, this mess would not exist. :rolleyes:
 
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