> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://alphacastio.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Fetch Financial Data

> Import stocks, ETFs, indices and other financial assets from Yahoo Finance into a pipeline by ticker.

Yahoo Finance covers hundreds of thousands of financial assets — stocks, bonds, ETFs and indices — all reachable from an Alphacast pipeline.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create a pipeline">
    Click **Create new pipeline** in the top right corner, choose the repository and a name, then click **Create**.

    <Frame>
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/alphacastio/ttF_U-V9HDrmrPbo/images/steps/fetch-yahoo-1.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=ttF_U-V9HDrmrPbo&q=85&s=e0240df72be3bc8942d576804d5a0b0f" alt="Creating a new pipeline" width="714" height="314" data-path="images/steps/fetch-yahoo-1.png" />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Add the Fetch Financial Data step">
    <Frame>
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/alphacastio/ttF_U-V9HDrmrPbo/images/steps/fetch-yahoo-2.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=ttF_U-V9HDrmrPbo&q=85&s=51fcc1e0e75126d77c9b73519bd62465" alt="Selecting the Fetch Financial Data step" width="593" height="149" data-path="images/steps/fetch-yahoo-2.png" />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enter tickers and a period">
    Add as many tickers as you want, separated by commas — for example `NQ=F, AAPL, MSFT` — and choose the lookback period.

    <Frame>
      <img src="https://mintcdn.com/alphacastio/ttF_U-V9HDrmrPbo/images/steps/fetch-yahoo-3.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=ttF_U-V9HDrmrPbo&q=85&s=79d8cdf511010eb0ae567a62558fd667" alt="Entering tickers and period in the step configuration" width="887" height="316" data-path="images/steps/fetch-yahoo-3.png" />
    </Frame>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Save">
    Press **Save** to keep your changes in the step.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The output includes open, close, high, low, volume, dividends and stock split data for every ticker.

## Finding tickers

A Yahoo Finance ticker is a short combination of letters and numbers identifying a company and its share class — `AAPL` for Apple Inc., `MSFT` for Microsoft Corporation. Look up the code on the official Yahoo Finance page for the asset.

<Tip>
  Alphacast can resolve tickers for you. The MCP server exposes ticker search and ISIN lookup tools — see [Tickers](/mcp/tools/tickers).
</Tip>

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