How do I run this loop to download data from yahoo finance?
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%Code to Get Matrix
fid=fopen('C:\Users\Laurentiu Galan\Desktop\Tickers2.csv');
C = textscan(fid, '%s');
fclose(fid);
%Grab First Value (Just as check)
thisval=(C{1});
% Calculate Number of Tickers
D=size(thisval);
NumTick=D(1,1);
%Calculate Loop to download tickers
for i:Numtick <--------------Problem
thissym=????????? <--------------Problem
thisurl = strcat('http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=', thissym, '&d=10&e=8&f=2011&g=d&a=0&b=1&c=2000&ignore=.csv');
thisdata=urlread(thisurl);
thisfilename = strcat(thissym, '.csv');
outputfile = strcat('C:\Users\Laurentiu Galan\Desktop\tickoutput\',thisfilename);
thisfileid=fopen(outputfile, 'wt')
fprintf(thisfileid, '%s\n',thisdata)
fclose(thisfileid)
How do i make thissym a variable that I can loop to download the data from yahoo finance? Each one of the values in thisval is a ticker.
I really appreciate your help if you can help me out with this!!!
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Fangjun Jiang
le 12 Nov 2011
for i=1:NumTick
thissym=thisval{i};
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Fangjun Jiang
le 12 Nov 2011
You want to save the data to each .csv file according to the symbol name. I don't see any way that you can avoid the for-loop.
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