This site offers a year of historical data for the S&P 500 stocks. You can use these data to experiment with technical analysis.
The full data set, which contains stock histories for an entire year, is available in both historical data format and in a daily update format.
A file in Historical Data Format contains one record per line of text corresponding to the data for a single date. The record is arranged into fields representing respectively the Date, Ticker, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume for the day. The fields are delimited by commas, and the records are delimited by <cr><lf>. The text files may be loaded directly into Excel and similar spreadsheet programs.
The data are also available as daily update sets. These data sets consist of files which are archived together, one for each day. The individual files contain a record for each stock, organized as Ticker, Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, delimited by commas. The file name itself carries the date.
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