Yahoo (RealTime) Same Issues as Yahoo (Historical)

[B2B_Investing]

Hi Mark,

After scrolling through the price retrieve servers, I decided to swap Yahoo for Yahoo (Realtime) as the default quote server. It has the same degraded performance as the historical server retrieving less than 1 per sec. This is in contrast to the normal yahoo server were retrieves across multiple tickers can exceed 80 / sec. Not sure if it is something on their end or network congestion. Just adding data points for you.

Jason

[B2B_Investing]

It seems like for the Realtime and Historical servers there is a lot of additional information being downloaded by the system for each ticker.

[Mark]

Hi Jason,

Yes, this is to be expected from these servers. It is the nature of how they're getting the data. The plain Yahoo server is the fastest of all the Yahoo servers.

[bwessely]

Yahoo/Yahoo Historical is painfully slow to load prices. I'm updated to quote module 609.

[Mark]

The historical Yahoo servers are now slow, and unfortunately, there is no other option to improve it from our end. Here are some options:

1) Find other solutions than using Yahoo (Historical), like update daily so you don't need to rely on getting historical prices. Yahoo is still very fast, but Yahoo (Historical) is not. You can automate with a command line the daily price retrieval.

2) Use other historical quote servers. See details/options here: https://www.fundmanagersoftware.com/intrtv.html
Stooq is very good, but may require you to change some symbols, and doesn't support mutual funds. If you need historical fund pricing, check out Financial Times - Funds (1M Historical).

3) If you need to use Yahoo (Historical), make smaller requests. Right mouse click on a selection and use "Retrieve Selected Historical Prices". Retrieve only a smaller number at a time. Turning off the options to retrieve splits/distributions will also help.