Importing Data from Yahoo Finance

Yahoo.com is a website on the Internet which includes a financial section called Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance provides access to historical data through a web interface. Access to the website and its information is free and does not require a subscription.

TradingSolutions can download end-of-day historical data over the Internet from Yahoo Finance. This allows you to keep all of the data in your portfolio up-to-date with the push of a few buttons.

Configuring TradingSolutions to Use Yahoo Finance

Yahoo Finance is defined as a "data source" in TradingSolutions. Since no subscription is required to access data on Yahoo.com, no configuration is required.

&  For help signing up for and configuring data sources, see Configuring Data Sources.

Importing Data from Yahoo Finance

New data series can be imported from Yahoo Finance using the Import Data Wizard and selecting Download new data from the Internet. This will display the Select Data to Download page, where you can select Yahoo Finance as the data source.

&  For help importing historical data, see Importing Historical Data.

Existing data series can be updated from Yahoo Finance using the Import Data Wizard and selecting Update data in the target group. Individual data series are updated based on their currently selected data source. The data source for each data series can be viewed or modified from the Modify Data Series Dialog: Properties page. The data source for entire groups can be viewed or modified from the Modify Group Dialog: Properties page.

&  For help updating data, see Updating Data.

Special Considerations with Yahoo Finance

Historical data on the Yahoo Finance website is not split-adjusted. However, an additional split-and-dividend-adjusted closing price is available from the website. Since split-adjusted data is typically preferred for technical analysis, TradingSolutions automatically derives the split-adjusted prices from the historical prices and the adjusted closing price.

Ä    Note: Since the adjusted closing price is only reported in cents, the automatic split-adjustment of stock data may not be possible for the oldest data in the data series due to rounding errors. If TradingSolutions detects that this may occur, only the data after this point will be downloaded and a message will be displayed indicating this has occurred.