Stock Market Ticker For Website - Getting Historical Data

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To get Historical Data from Yahoo Finance, we can use certain parameters in Query String. Check out following query string for NASDAQ (i.e. Symbol "^IXIC");

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=^IXIC&a=01&b=5&c=1971&d=01&e=8&f=2011&g=m&ignore=.csv

 If we analyze above link we can see some parameters varying from a to g. We can use these parameters to filter HISTORICAL data as per our requirement. Each of above parameter (i.e. from a to g) indicates following things

• s - Ticker symbol.(This parameter is not optional; other parameters are optional)
• a - Month number, starting with 0 for January.
• b - Day number, eg, 1 for the first of the month.
• c - Year.
  
  End date for historical prices (default is the most current available closing price):
• d - Month number, starting with 0 for January.
• e - Day number, eg, 1 for the first of the month.
• f - Year.
• g - Possible values are 'd' for daily (the default), 'w' for weekly, and 'm' for monthly.
  

We can download csv file and modify its URL run time as per our requirements.

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Stock Market Ticker For Website - Yahoo Finance API

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In My Previous article Stock Market Ticker For Website; we have seen how to USE YAHOO FINANCE URL, i.e. remote CSV file available for Download to use in Stock Market Ticker.

Suppose we want to download and CSV file with Market Indices
But to display various details related to stock market YAHOO Finance has allowed us to take advantage of live data. Do check out my article about Stock Market Ticker For Website

In previous article we use following link to get market data

http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=^DJI,^IXIC,^GSPC,^FTSE,^GDAXI,^FCHI,^N225,^HSI,^STI,^BSESN,^NSEI&f=sl1c1&e=.csv

Check out "f=sl1c1" this is where we need to apply following code for getting desired details. e.g. if we want to get "day-low,day-high, 52-week low & 52-week high" along with symbol(s), last trade(price)(l1) and change(c1) from YAHOO FINANCE, our "f=sl1c1" will change to "f=sl1c1ghjk". This is very simple, use following table for getting desired data about Stock exchanges or for equities. Yes we can also get Cross Currency rates from YAHOO FINANCE (e.g. Symbol "USDINR=X,USDEUR=X")

a	Ask	a2	Average Daily Volume	a5	Ask Size
b	Bid	b2	Ask (Real-time)	b3	Bid (Real-time)
b4	Book Value	b6	Bid Size	c	Change & Percent Change
c1	Change	c3	Commission	c6	Change (Real-time)
c8	After Hours Change (Real-time)	d	Dividend/Share	d1	Last Trade Date
d2	Trade Date	e	Earnings/Share	e1	Error Indication (returned for symbol changed / invalid)
e7	EPS Estimate Current Year	e8	EPS Estimate Next Year	e9	EPS Estimate Next Quarter
f6	Float Shares	g	Day’s Low	h	Day’s High
j	52-week Low	k	52-week High	g1	Holdings Gain Percent
g3	Annualized Gain	g4	Holdings Gain	g5	Holdings Gain Percent (Real-time)
g6	Holdings Gain (Real-time)	i	More Info	i5	Order Book (Real-time)
j1	Market Capitalization	j3	Market Cap (Real-time)	j4	EBITDA
j5	Change From 52-week Low	j6	Percent Change From 52-week Low	k1	Last Trade (Real-time) With Time
k2	Change Percent (Real-time)	k3	Last Trade Size	k4	Change From 52-week High
k5	Percebt Change From 52-week High	l	Last Trade (With Time)	l1	Last Trade (Price Only)
l2	High Limit	l3	Low Limit	m	Day’s Range
m2	Day’s Range (Real-time)	m3	50-day Moving Average	m4	200-day Moving Average
m5	Change From 200-day Moving Average	m6	Percent Change From 200-day Moving Average	m7	Change From 50-day Moving Average
m8	Percent Change From 50-day Moving Average	n	Name	n4	Notes
o	Open	p	Previous Close	p1	Price Paid
p2	Change in Percent	p5	Price/Sales	p6	Price/Book
q	Ex-Dividend Date	r	P/E Ratio	r1	Dividend Pay Date
r2	P/E Ratio (Real-time)	r5	PEG Ratio	r6	Price/EPS Estimate Current Year
r7	Price/EPS Estimate Next Year	s	Symbol	s1	Shares Owned
s7	Short Ratio	t1	Last Trade Time	t6	Trade Links
t7	Ticker Trend	t8	1 yr Target Price	v	Volume
v1	Holdings Value	v7	Holdings Value (Real-time)	w	52-week Range
w1	Day’s Value Change	w4	Day’s Value Change (Real-time)	x	Stock Exchange
y	Dividend Yield

Download Demo code here --> Stock Market Ticker for Websites(MarketWatch.zip)
Above  demo code is associated with my previous article.

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