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Like this tutorial? Sign up for the mailing list to be notified of site updates and an upcoming course on Python For Traders. Now that we have used the Alpaca API to populate our stock table, let’s use the Alpaca Market Data API to retrieve price data for each of our stock symbols. We will…

Like this tutorial? Sign up for the mailing list to be notified of site updates and an upcoming course on Python For Traders. Now that we have populated our stock table, how do we keep it up to date? While we could manually run our populate_db.py script again to fetch the latest list of tradable…

Like this tutorial? Sign up for the mailing list to be notified of site updates and an upcoming course on Python For Traders. So far, we have used the SQLite command line to execute our queries. This is great if we only need to INSERT or UPDATE a few records or run a few SELECTs….

Like this tutorial? Sign up for the mailing list to be notified of site updates and an upcoming course on Python For Traders. Now that we have created some tables to store our data, let’s populate these tables with some data and write some SQL to query this data. CRUD Operations First, let’s learn the…

Like this tutorial? Sign up for the mailing list to be notified of site updates and an upcoming course on Python For Traders. Retrieving daily historical prices for a given stock symbol is very straightforward using Python’s yfinance package. Simply install the package with pip: Then it is only a few lines of code to…