# # Copyright 2013 Quantopian, Inc. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. import pandas as pd from six.moves.urllib_parse import urlencode def format_yahoo_index_url(symbol, start_date, end_date): """ Format a URL for querying Yahoo Finance for Index data. """ return ( 'http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?' + urlencode({ 's': symbol, # start_date month, zero indexed 'a': start_date.month - 1, # start_date day 'b': start_date.day, # start_date year 'c': start_date.year, # end_date month, zero indexed 'd': end_date.month - 1, # end_date day 'e': end_date.day, # end_date year 'f': end_date.year, # daily frequency 'g': 'd', }) ) def get_benchmark_returns(symbol, start_date, end_date): """ Get a Series of benchmark returns from Yahoo. Returns a Series with returns from (start_date, end_date]. start_date is **not** included because we need the close from day N - 1 to compute the returns for day N. """ return pd.read_csv( format_yahoo_index_url(symbol, start_date, end_date), parse_dates=['Date'], index_col='Date', usecols=["Adj Close", "Date"], squeeze=True, # squeeze tells pandas to make this a Series # instead of a 1-column DataFrame ).sort_index().tz_localize('UTC').pct_change(1).iloc[1:]