Remove yahoo finance

[quantopian]

Remove yahoo finance

[eigenfoo]

Would it be correct to say that all that needs rewriting is this function in utils.py (and any other docstrings here and there)?

That sounds straightforward; would you like me to put together a PR?

[twiecki]

@eigenfoo Correct.

[twiecki]

It would be great to have an alternative that goes back further in time. We can probably use the yahoo SPY returns for the past, and then forward-fill with the ones from google.

[appletonwebb]

There's the IEX exchange API if it helps, and it requires no registration:

https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/#stocks

[jaycode]

@twiecki I replaced Yahoo Finance with Quandl as shown here. Would you like me to update the default to use Quandl instead?

[twiecki]

@jaycode Yes, that seems like a more stable source!

[jaycode]

@twiecki Done, please resolve conflicts here: #89

[jaycode]

There is also some minimal updates for Pyfolio module for this to work. See here: jaycode/pyfolio@7ef8d27

A working example can be seen here: https://github.com/jaycode/pyfolio/blob/master/pyfolio/examples/single_stock_example.ipynb