STOCKQUOTE: Stata module to retrieve stock quotes to a Stata-formatted dataset

Nikos Askitas ()

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: stockquote currently queries Yahoo's Finance API for ticker symbol historical values. fm, fd, fy stand for first month, first day, first year respectively, are numeric and tell stockquote the start date of the time series you want. Similarly lm, ld, ly are numeric and stand for last month, last day, last year respectively and tell stockquote the end date of the time series. frequency may be one of: d, w, m meaning: daily, weekly, monthly.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 9
Keywords: stock quotes; share prices; equities; data management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09-22, Revised 2008-12-30
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install stockquote". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/stockquote.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/s/stockquote.hlp help file (text/plain)

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