Getting stock market data

Start by importing the packages. We will need pandas and the pandas_datareader.

# Import modules
import pandas as pd
from pandas_datareader import data

Datareader allows you to import data from the internet. I have found that Quandl and robinhood works the best as a source for stockmarket data.

Note that if you want an other type of data (e.g. GDP, inflation, etc.) other sources exist.

#import stock from robinhood
aapl_robinhood = data.DataReader('AAPL', 'robinhood', '1980-01-01')
aapl_robinhood.head()

#import stock from quandl
aapl_quandl = data.DataReader('AAPL', 'quandl', '1980-01-01')
aapl_quandl.head()