Alpha Vantage is a Financial market data source available for traders to download historical market data (intraday and daly). With
Hydra you can do in automatically and store it in local database for further use (strategy backtesting, market data analysing).
Alpha Vantage has a free and premium options. In this article, will show you how to download historical market data from Alpha Vantage data sources via S#.Data using a free API connector and free market data option from Alpha Vantage.
💥How can you download market data via S#.Data? This article has answers for you.💥
👉 Open up your S#.Data Application.
👉 Visit our instruction if you doesn't have
Hydra application.
👉
How I can get S#.Data
👉 The first page you found will be all possible supported
sources.
👉 Or click
Add Sources with the plus sign on your top left hand side.
👉 Find
AlphaVantage from the list.
👉 Select
Connection to AlphaVantage.
👉 And Click
OK.
👉 Navigate to the
AlphaVantage website.
👉 Click on the
GET YOUR FREE API KEY TODAY tab.
👉 Register to receive an API key and Click on the
GET FREE API KEY tab.
👉 After that you will receive your
API key code, Copy it.
👉 Back to the
S#.Data(Hydra) application and paste the API Key in the
Token box on the top right hand side of the screen.
👉 After that Click
Add Securities, which is a plus sign on the bottom row toolbar.
👉 Click on the Download Securities tab.
👉 Put
Instruments code search for AlphaVantage. You can use common codes such as AAPL for Apple Instrument.
👉 And click
OK.
👉 Double click on the Instruments tab on the left to move it to the right and click
OK.
👉 Select the
Time Frame candle and click
OK.
👉 Press to select a
Date. where you want to start with Market Data information.
👉 Press
start at the top left hand corner of the screen to begin downloading Market Data information from AlphaVantage.
👉 Once the data has finished downloading, press
Stop.
👉 Right-click on the top bar and select
View downloaded.
👉 Click
View Market Data information or
Click View Chart candle.
👉 Now everything is done.
⚡️That's it, you can now download the market data of the stocks you want via
S#.Data to be stored for use in your back testing. We also have many other interesting articles that you can find on the
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