business-science / alphavantager

A lightweight R interface to the Alpha Vantage API
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Alpha Vantage is an unlicensed vendor #21

Open myxfinance223 opened 4 years ago

myxfinance223 commented 4 years ago

Hi,

Just want to bring it to you guys' attention that Alpha Vange is distributing market data illegally and legal actions have been taken against the company. I suggest you guys to switch to another provider immediately to avoid service disruption.

Original proof of illegal activity can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/algotrading/comments/hnxoy6/beware_alphavantage_is_not_a_licensed_provider/

The following market data has disappeared due to legal actions and more will be coming soon:

I'm just as disappointed as all of you that a great idea was so poorly executed and based on entirely illegal foundation to begin with.