Yahoo historical data

newbunch · Jun 3, 2007

Yahoo historical data on some symbols (SPY, ^SPX/^GSPC) has not been working. Anybody know of alternative sites to download historical data? Specifically, I need SPX volume (which Yahoo has/had).

Wallace · Jun 3, 2007

Hi newbunch, scroll to bottom of page, click 'UK & Ireland' then
left column Investing/International/US Indicies

dpiatek · Jun 3, 2007

Yahoo still works but you have to type in the URL directly.

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^GSPC&a=03&b=02&c=07&d=05&e=03&f=07&g=d&ignore=.csv

This is for ^GSPC where the first historical date downloaded is 04/02/07 and the last date is 06/03/07. Yahoo uses 0 based indexing for their months which is why 05 gives back June.

David Piatek<br><a href="http://www.piateksoftware.com">http://www.piateksoftware.com</a><br>Intuitive Financial Software

newbunch · Jun 3, 2007

Both "tricks" work. Thanks a lot.

MyOwnBoss · Jun 3, 2007

On a related note, does anybody know why some iShares historical data is no longer available on Yahoo Finance? My only guess is that it's a licensing thing...

TIA

dpiatek · Jun 7, 2007

Yahoo historical seems to be up and working again without needing to resort to any of the aforementioned "tricks".

BlindLemonBoosh · Jun 7, 2007

BTW, the Yahoo UK site was working while the US one wasn't. You might want to keep this in your pocket as a backup.

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^NDX

Wallace · Jun 7, 2007

historical back up

tony79 · Jun 9, 2007

google finance has historic pricing now might wanna check there.

dpiatek · Jun 9, 2007

Quote from tony79:

google finance has historic pricing now might wanna check there.

Good find. Also seems like their open, high, and low prices are automatically adjusted for splits unlike yahoo which only adjusts the closing price.

David Piatek<br><a href="http://www.piateksoftware.com">http://www.piateksoftware.com</a><br>Intuitive Financial Software