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Get historical price data (OHLCV) for a stock. Use when user asks about price history, historical data, past performance, price over time, or needs data for chart analysis.

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Price History

Fetch historical OHLCV data from Yahoo Finance.

Instructions

Note: If uv is not installed or pyproject.toml is not found, replace uv run python with python in all commands below.

uv run python scripts/history.py SYMBOL [--period PERIOD] [--interval INTERVAL]

Arguments

  • SYMBOL - Ticker symbol
  • --period - Time period: 1d, 5d, 1mo, 3mo, 6mo, 1y, 2y, 5y, 10y, ytd, max (default: 1mo)
  • --interval - Data interval: 1m, 2m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 60m, 90m, 1h, 1d, 5d, 1wk, 1mo (default: 1d)

Output

Returns JSON with:

  • symbol - Ticker
  • period - Requested period
  • interval - Data interval
  • data - Array of {date, open, high, low, close, volume}

Summarize key price movements, highs/lows, and trends.

Dependencies

  • yfinance

Timezone

All timestamps and time-based calculations must use the America/New_York timezone. All JSON output must include generated_at (NY time string) and data_delay fields.