Appendix A — The yfinance Package

Fetching data from Yahoo Finance:

import yfinance as yf

symbol = "NVDA"
df = yf.download(symbol, start="2014-01-01", end="2024-01-31")
df.head()

/tmp/ipykernel_3259/2641649850.py:4: FutureWarning:

YF.download() has changed argument auto_adjust default to True

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Price	Close	High	Low	Open	Volume
Ticker	NVDA	NVDA	NVDA	NVDA	NVDA
Date
2014-01-02	0.373885	0.376714	0.370585	0.375299	260092000
2014-01-03	0.369406	0.375299	0.368227	0.374592	259332000
2014-01-06	0.374356	0.377185	0.369641	0.373178	409492000
2014-01-07	0.380486	0.381900	0.375535	0.378128	333288000
2014-01-08	0.385672	0.387558	0.380486	0.381900	308192000