Here's what I found: Courtesy of Yahoo finance, it is possible to bulk download historical prices data. This script, borrowed from pycurl retriever-multi.py ex

Here's what I found: Courtesy of Yahoo finance, it is possible to bulk download historical prices data. This script, borrowed from pycurl retriever-multi.py example, fetch series for several tickers at a time. It uses urllib to fetch web data, so it should work with a plain vanilla python distro. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511444/ http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511444/ Here's a neat way to download stock data from Yahoo, perhaps into a spreadsheet (so you can play with the data): http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm http://www.gummy-stuff.org/Yahoo-data.htm