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CryptocurrencyData

Source Notebook

Cryptocurrency data retrieval

Contributed by: Anton Antonov

CryptocurencyData[name]

gives daily closing price data for the cryptocurrency name.

CryptocurencyData[name,start]

gives daily closing price data for the cryptocurrency name from start to current date.

CryptocurencyData[name,{start,end}]

gives daily closing price data for the cryptocurrency name from start to end.

CryptocurencyData[name,prop,{start,end}]

gives value of the specified property for the cryptocurrency name from start to end.

Details and Options

Generally speaking, CryptcurrencyData adheres to the signatures design of FinancialData, but there are a number of differences.

ResourceFunction["CryptocurrencyData"] utilizes two data sources: Yahoo Finance and data.bitcoinity.org.

ResourceFunction["CryptocurrencyData"] caches the source-retrived-and-processed data in order to provide results faster.

Here are the options taken:

Currency

USD

currency

LedgerStart

{2009, 1, 3}

ledger start date

Quantities

False

wether quantity units to be used or not

ResultType

TimeSeries

type of the result

Source

YahooFinance

source for cryptocurrency data

Examples

Basic Examples (3)

Here is time series for Bitcoin (BTC):

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Here is trading volume time series for BTC since 2018:

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Get trading volume data for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) since January 1st 2021:

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Here is the corresponding plot:

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Scope (8)

Here are time series of different properties for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH):

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Instead of time series we can get Dataset objects instead:

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Get the cryptocurrency summary data from Yahoo Finance:

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