EOD, Intraday data request

[bakoo]

Hi

I have found so, so many threads here about datafeeds, free ones, paid ones, intraday, eod, etc, etc and i just now lost and spoilt for choice.

What do i want data for? I want it for a university project (final project) that is a charting and i think the term is "black box"? package "back test and strategy".

I have got a fair deal of EOD data from Yahoo, how good is this?

Now i want intraday data, for mainly US/UK stocks and indicies, but Europe would be an advantage. My tutor wants us to go to 1min level at the minimum, so i am looking for 1 minute or even point for point.

At the moment, getting it delayed or end of day is fine, but i would like to add real time in at some point, so solutions are required?

Any help is very, very appreciated and i will share my work with whoever wants to have a look, be good to get some Constructive Critisism too, and how well it works...

Thanks

 

[RichardDale]

Backtesting data needs extremely high quality data.

You definitely do not want to use Yahoo (or indeed any free source) as such a source unless you are happy with highly erroneous data (eg. splits missing, spinoffs missing etc.)

Many universities subscribe to historical data services. Ask your university library what is available.

 

[bakoo]

thanks for that, i have founds financial reports via uni, but no eod/id data as yet.

can you shed some light on errors in free data please as it be great for a report why not to use free data? an example would be even better, if its an index example, better still...

thanks

 

[kipptrader]

Did you try http://pitrading.com/historical_data.htm

Down to 1-minute but mainly for US markets. Also check if they have a student discount.

 

[bakoo]

thanks for that, sent email to ask if they discount. is the quality of the data good do you know? thanks again.