Security Trading Analytics

 GOOLEFINANCE Function in Google Sheets Can Download Historical Data via CSV Files A recent prior post at this blog describes the disabling of a Yahoo Finance feature for downloading historical price and volume data into csv files.  The Yahoo Finance web page from which you were formerly able to download historical prices without a fee has been updated by the following statement: " Downloading historical data is only available to Gold members. " The disabled feature degrades Yahoo Finance as a supplier of free data for security trading analytic projects.  As a result, this blog promised to investigate and demonstrate workarounds for the disabled free feature. The Gold member subscription plan  is currently priced at $49.95 per month or $479.40 per year when paid annually.  While the Gold member plan includes additional benefits besides the download of csv files with historical data, these additional features do not support security trading analytics projects of historical s

Yahoo Finance No longer Supports the Download of Historical Data via CSV Files A prior post from this blog demonstrated how to download historical stock price data via a csv file.  In the past couple of weeks, Yahoo Finance deleted this feature.  Another internet source confirms the dropping of the feature. Here is an example of the error message that I am encountering when I attempt to download historical data from Yahoo Finance to a csv file on my computer: {"finance":{"result":null,"error":{"code":"unauthorized","description":"User is not logged in"}}}. I am currently evaluating workarounds for the issue, and I expect to publish my initial discovered workarounds by late September 2024.. I expect the deleted feature to be problematic to self-directed traders/investors, financial quantitative analysts,  as well as authors, such as the blogmaster for the Security Trading Analytics blog .  Please feel to share with