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Get financial tickers for commodities using FinancialData?

Miguel Esteban
Posted 7 years ago

Hi there,

I am using FinancialData with great success for stocks, currencies and ETFs. However I am struggling to get prices for commodities (Metals, grains...). Not sure whether this is available as usually traded at Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT-CME) or London Metal Exchange and cannot find their tickers.

Thanks for your support, Miguel
POSTED BY: Miguel Esteban
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Michael Smith
Michael Smith
Posted 4 years ago

I'll just note that for some other futures this doesn't seem to work. For instance, I tried "VIX" (Assuming "VIX" is an airport | Use as a roman numeral instead), "VIX index" (Using closest Wolfram|Alpha interpretation: index) , and "Volatility Index" (Using closest Wolfram|Alpha interpretation: volatility). I also tried "^VIX" but it appears to have gone into an infinite loop searching for that one and never return a result.

Mathematica for some reason doesn't recognize "^VIX" for FinancialData either for some reason, which is making it really difficult (or impossible) to perform my analysis.
POSTED BY: Michael Smith

As stated in the previous post, you can pull out data from the NYMEX, CME, etc databases.

I have never been able to get data from the LME. It'd be nice to have since for at least a couple commodities London is the default exchange.

Guess Wolfram doesn't have a service agreement with them. Wolfram relies on third parties (Yahoo?) to provide Financial Data.

This reliance on third parties is patchy sometimes (right now my code isn't running).

Hope this helps

POSTED BY: Federico Bolaños
Nick White
Nick White
Posted 7 years ago
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