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_2999/2641649850.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	0.373906	0.376735	0.370605	0.375320	260092000
2014-01-03	0.369427	0.375320	0.368248	0.374613	259332000
2014-01-06	0.374377	0.377206	0.369662	0.373198	409492000
2014-01-07	0.380507	0.381921	0.375556	0.378149	333288000
2014-01-08	0.385694	0.387580	0.380507	0.381921	308192000