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Charles23
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Is it possible to receive an automatically downloaded table of historic prices of various indices?
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IAM
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I'm thinking about writing a script that will do this but I see OST only supplies 10 years worth of historical data for most shares. Any idea where you can find historical data reaching further back?
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Preston
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Rams, knows everything abt OST operations, he will be able to help you.
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Cherry
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why would you need prices old then 10 years. I know Sharemagic provides "entire History".
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Cherry
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why would you need prices old then 10 years. I know Sharemagic provides "entire History".
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Cherry
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Sharemagic Pro provides prices for the 'Entire History"
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SimonPB
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investordata.co.za goes back 15 years I thinks
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Charles23
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I only need one year historic, but have no knowledge on writing a script. Any help?
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Charles23
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I only need one year historic, but have no knowledge on writing a script. Any help?
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Charles23
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I only need 1 year historic downloaded automatically, but have no knowledge of writing scripts. Any help?
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Charles23
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I only need 1 year historic downloaded automatically, but have no knowledge of writing scripts. Any help?
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Charles23
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I only need one year historic downloaded automatically, but have no knowledge on writing script. Any help?
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how much are you willing to pay for the script?
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how much are you willing to pay for the script?
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IAM
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Fair point, but I'm a hoarder and I like knowing I have all the data in case I ever need it :P
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IAM
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Writing a script to s*****e the data isn't that complicated, I do however have concerns about whether automatically downloading the data is allowed in the OST terms and conditions. I gave them a read and never saw anything explicitly prohibiting it but I am not a legal expert so I could be wrong
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IAM
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Lol, the word was meant to be scr@pe but the site decided I was swearing so replaced it with ****
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Charles23
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Well as it is for my final year project for next year I am not willing to pay, would rather learn to do it myself
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