Download historical financial data from Yahoo!

Retrieve historical stock data from Yahoo! Finance

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Retrieves historical stock data for the ticker symbols in Asset cell array (ticker symbol and yahoo stock exchange symbol), between the dates specified by Date1 (beginning) and Date2 (end) in the Matlab datenums format. The program returns the stock data in xls at '/Data' folder, giving the Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, and Adjusted Close price adjusted for dividends and splits.

For PERSONAL, INFORMATIONAL use ONLY.

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Example:

Asset = {
'AAPL','';
'ANA','MC';
'BKIA','MC';
'CDR','MC';
'ENG','MC';
'GLD','';
'IAG','MC';
'LYXIB','MC';
'MT','AS';
'OHL','MC';
'ITX','MC';
'SAN','MC';
'TEF','MC'
};
Asset = table(Asset(:,1), Asset(:,2), 'VariableNames', {'Symbol', 'SE'});
Date1 = '26-Jan-2017';
Date2 = '27-Jan-2018';
interval = '1d';

downloadStocksData(Asset,Date1,Date2,interval)

Cite As

Aitor Roca (2026). Download historical financial data from Yahoo! (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/64218-download-historical-financial-data-from-yahoo), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

Acknowledgements

Inspired: Yahoo! Finance Data Loader

General Information

MATLAB Release Compatibility

  • Compatible with any release

Platform Compatibility

  • Windows
  • macOS
  • Linux
Version Published Release Notes Action
1.3.0.0

Bugs fixed.

1.2.0.0

Now creates 'Data' folder and then add to the path

1.1.0.0

Now checks if data is numeric.

1.0.0.0