Price retrieval issue with Stooq historical

[Djobydjoba]

Hi Mark,

I try to retrieve historical prices of Crude Oil WTI in Stooq (ticker: CL.F)
https://stooq.com/q/d/?s=cl.f&i=d
This works OK with Stooq server but not with Stooq historical

The error is:
WARNING: Server used but did not update any prices: (STOOQ-HISTORICAL)
Could not update any investments

Do you see what could cause the error?

(PS: same error for some other commodities)

[Mark]

Hi Djobydjoba,

Interesting... For some reason Stooq isn't supporting this symbol for CSV download. If you look on that page of historical prices, at the bottom there should be a link to:

"Download data in csv file..."

as there is on other historical quote pages, like:

https://stooq.com/q/d/?s=eurusd

Fund Manager is using the same link as it would for other symbols and historical prices, but no data is returned.

[Djobydjoba]

It seems the commodities I was trying to download were commodities futures (".F" at the end of the ticker) and indeed the possibility to download futures quotes from a .csv seems not available on Stooq.

This is not a problem as what I was looking for was in fact commodity cash prices, and I've just seen the dedicated page for them (https://stooq.com/t/?i=584) (for cash, the ticker has a ".C" at the end). For them it works like a charm.

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AFAIK, this is the only server where all the main commodity cash prices can be downloaded, that's excellent.

[Mark]

Hi Djobydjoba,

Okay, great, glad you found a solution for your needs.