I'm looking to pull in the FEDFUNDS rate data into an algorithm. What's a good way to do that? I didn't see it in the FRED Data docs
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Seeking method to import FEDFUNDS rate data to algorithm. Not found in FRED Data docs.
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What's a good way to pull in FEDFUNDS rate data?
Jam | jam | May 2023
I'm looking to pull in the FEDFUNDS rate data into an algorithm. What's a good way to do that? I didn't see it in the FRED Data docs
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Demid Fedorov
Hi Jam, via FRED API; just be careful to use a proper delay to avoid lookahead bias when you pull this data. For instance, data that updates monthly is pulled from FRED as though it were available on the first day of the month for which that data is relevant, whereas in reality it becomes available about 25 days after the month ends. So you need to add a ~50-day delay there.
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Jam
I'm seeing this error when I try to pull FRED data via their API:
HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.stlouisfed.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /fred/series/observations?series_id=FEDFUNDS&api_key=my_key&file_type=json&observation_start=2022-01-03&observation_end=2022-01-03 (Caused by ProxyError('Cannot connect to proxy.', OSError('Tunnel connection failed: 403 Forbidden')))
Here's how I'm calling it:
url=f"https://api.stlouisfed.org/fred/series/observations?series_id=FEDFUNDS&api_key={api_key}&file_type=json&observation_start={date}&observation_end={date}"
response = requests.get(url)
data = response.json()
Any ideas on how to resolve the error?
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