stocks

You can retrieve current stock and crypto quotes without a paid API by using this Skill to fetch real-time prices, change, volume, and 52-week high/low data. It makes direct HTTP requests to Yahoo Finance and outputs JSON to stdout for immediate use.

Yes, you can compare multiple stock tickers side-by-side. The Skill retrieves current prices and performance summaries for symbols like AAPL, MSFT, and TSLA, allowing you to evaluate relative performance without manual lookups.

To pull OHLCV historical data, you can request common ranges like 1mo, 3mo, 6mo, 1y, or 5y. The Skill retrieves the historical market data and computes summary statistics including min, max, average, and total return percentage.

The best way to search for a stock ticker by company name is to use the ticker search function. It finds tickers by company name or partial query and returns the top matches, enabling quick identification of desired symbols.

Yes, the crypto quote lookup supports symbols like BTC directly. The Skill automatically converts standard crypto symbols into Yahoo Finance's expected format, such as converting BTC to BTC-USD, to fetch accurate pricing data.

You do not need an ALPHA_VANTAGE_KEY for basic stock market data features. The Skill uses Python standard library HTTP requests by default, but can optionally backfill missing fundamental data if you provide an ALPHA_VANTAGE_KEY.