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Re:Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project by santamex on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:42PM (#22873595)
You should have a look at this nice and free stock market API. Also well documented.

https://financialmodelingprep.com/

Re:Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project by themodelplumber on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @09:49PM (#22873633)
Whoa! I love it, thank you for sharing this. It seems like it's a free API for personal use with some rate limitations.
Re:Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project by mettamage on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:25AM (#22874485)
Ah yea, this was recently on HN through some other project [1]. Financialmodelingpre.com is amazing.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22848779#22849272

Re:Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project by throwaway9d0291 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:03AM (#22876732)
There's also Alphavantage: https://www.alphavantage.co/documentation/

It has extensive technical indicators which can be handy.

Re:Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project by michaelscott on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:45AM (#22877047)
Whoa, this is an incredible find! Getting historical testing data for anything other than the stock market is an absolute nightmare. Thanks for this!
Re:Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project by blakbelt78 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:11PM (#22873735)
Cool. I didn’t know about this one. Definitely looking into it.