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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Sunday February 04, 2018 @01:40AM (#16301675)
Not anymore, the yahoo finance is unfortunately broken...
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Sunday February 04, 2018 @07:25AM (#16302471)
I have it working pulling historical data based on symbol
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Sunday February 04, 2018 @09:33AM (#16302848)
Sure, but there are maybe over 10000 companies including non existing ones and you need them all for your back testing to be valid...
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by jason_slack on Sunday February 04, 2018 @03:06PM (#16304612)
I see your point. Scripting this and running on cron could help.
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Re:Ask HN: What skills are needed to be a Quant? by SirLJ on Sunday February 04, 2018 @11:35PM (#16306621)
Make sure the delisted companies are included...
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