Hello.

I´m new using WL and my English level is not good, I´m sorry.

I´m trying to create a commodities dataset with yahoo data provider and when I create it, when I try draw a chart on any simbol WL shows a message: 'no data avaliable'. I saw also when I update data WL don´t find these instruments in yahoo.

One of them is GC gold (GCG13 is gold contract february 2013). The ticker is 'GCG13' and I can find it in yahoo finance:

http://es.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GCG13.CMX

But when I introduce that code to dataset list WL don´t find it. I tried introduce symbol with '.CMX' and without, using the option to add automatically.

Why the instrument is not find by WL?

Somebody can helps me?

Thanks!

Regards,

Andrés.

Hello,

This is a FAQ for years:

FAQ | Data and Data Providers > "Is it possible to get the futures data from Yahoo?"

It's not the instrument couldn't be found by WL, but its historical data is physically not available at Yahoo.

Thanks Eugene!

I didn´t see that part.

Do you know if exist a daily free provider for commodities?

Regards

Yes, there are:

TradingBlox Static Provider
PiTrading Static Provider (daily data updated on a monthly basis)

Related:

Free COT Data static provider (commitment of traders data)

I find that extension for quotemedia:

Thanks Eugene!

You're right Andrés: QM should support futures data too. I just don't remember if I tested it well when developing this provider.

I test both, and TradingBox have the same problem that Yahoo: when I try draw a chart on instruments shows 'no data avaliable'

PiTrading works well!

Thanks Eugene :-).

No, it's not nearly the same problem. Either you haven't updated the futures DataSet by TradingBlox (or update failed), or have selected a date range that is not applicable to the contract. Loading "All data" will show what went wrong. If it's #1, then highlight the DataSet in the Data Manager and check out the bars count.