Data¶

Yahoo! Finance¶

The la package provides a function to load open, close, high, low, volume, and adjclose from Yahoo! Finance.

la.data.yahoo.quotes()¶

Given a ticker sequence, return historical Yahoo! quotes as a 3d larry.

Parameters:

tickers : sequence A sequence (such as a list) of string tickers. For example: [‘aapl’, ‘msft’] date1 : {datetime.date, tuple}, optional The first date to grab historical quotes on. For example: datetime.date(2010, 1, 1) or (2010, 1, 1). By default the first date is (1900, 1, 1). date2 : {datetime.date, tuple}, optional The last date to grab historical quotes on. For example: datetime.date(2010, 12, 31) or (2010, 12, 31). By default the last date is 10 days beyond today’s date. adjust : bool, optional Adjust (default) the open, close, high, and low prices. The adjustment takes splits and dividends into account such that the corresponding returns are correct. Volume is already split adjusted by Yahoo so it is not changed by the value of adjust. verbose : bool, optional Print the ticker currently being loaded. By default the tickers are not printed.

Returns:

lar : larry A 3d larry is returned. In order, the three axes contain: tickers, item, and dates. The elements along the item axis depend on the value of adjust. When adjust is False, the items are [‘open’, ‘close’, ‘high’, ‘low’, ‘volume’, ‘adjclose’] When adjust is true (default), the adjusted close (‘adjclose’) is not included. The dates are datetime.date objects.

Examples

>>> from la.data.yahoo import quotes
>>> lar = quotes(['aapl', 'msft'], (2010,10,1), (2010,10,5))
>>> lar
label_0
    aapl
    msft
label_1
    open
    close
    high
    low
    volume
label_2
    2010-10-01
    2010-10-04
    2010-10-05
x
array([[[  2.86150000e+02,   2.81600000e+02,   2.82000000e+02],
        [  2.82520000e+02,   2.78640000e+02,   2.88940000e+02],
        [  2.86580000e+02,   2.82900000e+02,   2.89450000e+02],
        [  2.81350000e+02,   2.77770000e+02,   2.81820000e+02],
        [  1.60051000e+07,   1.55256000e+07,   1.78743000e+07]],
        .
       [[  2.47700000e+01,   2.39600000e+01,   2.40600000e+01],
        [  2.43800000e+01,   2.39100000e+01,   2.43500000e+01],
        [  2.48200000e+01,   2.39900000e+01,   2.44500000e+01],
        [  2.43000000e+01,   2.37800000e+01,   2.39100000e+01],
        [  6.26236000e+07,   9.80868000e+07,   7.80329000e+07]]])

>>> close = lar.lix[:,['close']]
>>> close
label_0
    aapl
    msft
label_1
    2010-10-01
    2010-10-04
    2010-10-05
x
array([[ 282.52,  278.64,  288.94],
       [  24.38,   23.91,   24.35]])

Calculate the log return from the close prices:

>>> ret = close / close.lag(1, axis=-1)
>>> ret = ret.log()
>>> ret
label_0
    aapl
    msft
label_1
    2010-10-04
    2010-10-05
x
array([[-0.01382872,  0.03629843],
       [-0.01946634,  0.01823507]])