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Anyone know how to get historical spot VIX in 2017? It looks like they yanked Google and Yahoo from Quandl so a lot of the old examples are out of date. I've managed to get data in from Quandl and found futures VIX, but I can't find the spot VIX anywhere.
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Michael Manus
try to find the answer within Alexandre's answer at the end in this posting :)
https://www.quantconnect.com/forum/discussion/1545/easy-volatility-investing
Warren Harding
OK, I found the spot VIX here:
www.quandl.com/data/CBOE/VIX-Volatility-Index
But I can't get it to run. The VXV comes in ok, but when you uncomment the line for importing the vix the algo crashes.
Alexandre Catarino
Our Quandl custom data implementation assumes that there is a column with the "close" name.
In the CBOE/VIX data, there is a "vix close" column instead (they have probably change it!!!).
We can select the right column with a class that inherits from Quandl:
AddData<QuandlVix>("CBOE/VIX"); public class QuandlVix : Quandl { public QuandlVix() : base(valueColumnName: "vix close") { } }Warren Harding
That worked Alexandre. Thanks a million.
Warren Harding
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