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		sjbase on July 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to Zipline: A Trading Library for Pyt... Most professionals I've known use Capital IQ, which is expensive. It's surprisingly tough to get broad, machine-readable market data for free but there are some cheaper options. Check this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/SecurityAnalysis/comments/2ci5du/ca... Or you could always scrape Yahoo Finance :)

unknown_apostle on July 25, 2016 [–]

Yeah but you don't want to spend most of your time writing and maintaining scraping code :-)

sjbase on July 26, 2016 | [–]

Yep, therein lies the classic problem: if you want something of value, you can either spend your time or spend your money.

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