Historical Stock Data Download (alternate Method)

Version 6.0.0.1 (4.1 KB) by Captain Awesome
Retrieves historical stock data from Yahoo Finance by parsing html pages instead of .csv download.
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This is an updated function to retrieve historical data from Yahoo Finance.
Apparently they changed things around May 2017 and previous versions of these types of functions stopped working. This is a completely new version that should now work (as of November 2017).

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Captain Awesome (2026). Historical Stock Data Download (alternate Method) (https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/37502-historical-stock-data-download-alternate-method), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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Created with R2016a
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Inspired by: hist_stock_data(start_date, end_date, varargin)

Version Published Release Notes
6.0.0.1

fixed typo
6.0.0.0

Cleaned it up and fixed a few bugs noted by people in the comments.
3.0.0.0

Updated to handle new format of data from yahoo.
1.0.0.0