cgoldberg / ystockquote

Fetch stock quote data from Yahoo Finance
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Add a method to get historical 52-week high #30

Open usvyatsky opened 10 years ago

usvyatsky commented 10 years ago

I have a small enhancement to the package that computes a historical 52-week high. The definition of a historical 52-week high I used is as follows: The highest 'High' of all prices of a given symbol in a 1-year range than ends at a specified date. The function returns a dict of dicts (just like original get_historical_prices) which usually contains a single element with the date as a key and a full data dictionary of that dates data as a value. In a rare case of more than one occasions of the same highest 'High' value within the period all those occasions are included in the result. I will create a pull request with my enhancement shortly.