1. Download free market data from Stooq.com
   1. Alternatives for finding a stock on Stooq.com
   2. Searching for securities on Stooq.com by category
   3. Searching for equity on Stooq.com by equity name
   4. Download historical data

Download free market data from Stooq.com

Stooq.com is a Polish site with some parts translated to English. You can download market data for Polish, Japanese, Hungarian, German and USA stocks.

Alternatives for finding a stock on Stooq.com

Direct link is a link within Chartoasis.com that points directly at a free market data provider's subpage of a stock where you can start downloading market data.

• You can find direct link to a stock in the table below or on a country's stock data download page.
  If you have a direct link to the Stooq.com page of the stock you are looking for, open it in a separate browser window then proceed with the "Download historical data" section.
• If you haven't found the wanted stock's direct link you can search for it by name as described in the "Searching for stocks on Stooq.com by name" section.
• Or you may search by category as described in the "Searching for securities on Stooq.com by category" section.

Full name	Category	Ticker	Link
SONY CORP.	Japanese stock	6758.JP	Download link for SONY CORP.
Bayerische Motoren Werke St.	German stock	BMW.DE	Download link for Bayerische Motoren Werke St.
TVN SA	Polish stock	TVN	Download link for TVN SA
Getin Holding SA	Polish stock	GTN	Download link for Getin Holding SA
Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA	Polish stock	PKO	Download link for Powszechna Kasa Oszczednosci Bank Polski SA
Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen SA	Polish stock	PKN	Download link for Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen SA
Telekomunikacja Polska SA	Polish stock	TPS	Download link for Telekomunikacja Polska SA
Gold Future	Commodity	GC.F	Download link for Gold Future
Light Crude Oil Future	Commodity	CL.F	Download link for Light Crude Oil Future
EUR/USD	Forex	EURUSD	Download link for EUR/USD
USD/CHF	Forex	USDCHF	Download link for USD/CHF
MOL	Hungarian stock	MOL.HU	Download link for MOL
MTELEKOM	Hungarian stock	MTELEKOM.HU	Download link for MTELEKOM
OTP	Hungarian stock	OTP.HU	Download link for OTP
RABA	Hungarian stock	RABA.HU	Download link for RABA
RICHTER	Hungarian stock	RICHTER.HU	Download link for RICHTER
SYNERGON	Hungarian stock	SYNERGON.HU	Download link for SYNERGON
ZWACK	Hungarian stock	ZWACK.HU	Download link for ZWACK

Searching for securities on Stooq.com by category

Below table contains links pointing at categories on Stooq.com.

Category	Link
Commodities	Download link for Commodities
Forex	Download link for Forex
USA stocks	Download link for USA stocks
German stocks	Download link for German stocks
Japanese stocks	Download link for Japanese stocks
Polish stocks	Download link for Polish stocks
Hungarian stocks	Download link for Hungarian stocks

When searching for a security on Stooq.com by category do the following:

1. Select the appropriate category's link and open it in a separate browser window.
2. Within the category:
   1. The column "Pelna nazwa" contains the detailed names of the securities. You can find the wanted securities by this name (you may have turn some pages using the numbered links). When the securities is found, click the link in the "Symbol" column then proceed with "Download historical data" section. If the wanted security is not found try searching for it by the name of the stock.
      

Searching for equity on Stooq.com by equity name

Another way to find the the wanted equity is using Stooq.com's built-in search box.

1. Visit http://stooq.com/.
2. Enter (at least a part of) the name of the equity into the searchbox on the top of the page. If the name of the wanted equity pops up (like MCDONALDS CORP in the example), click on it or click "Kwotuj". Otherwise click "Kwotuj" to attempt searching for the equity.
   
3. If you have entered (at least a part of) the name or ticker of an equity supported by Stooq.com your browser will jump to the equity's page. If the name is ambiguous or mispelled (or it is not a supported equity) a page like below will pop up to resolve ambiguity by offering equities supported by Stooq.com having name similar to the name you just entered.
   1. If you have found the page of the wanted equity proceed with "Download historical data" section.
   2. If you have not found the wanted equity this way try again with a different part of the name or try searching for it by category or direct link.
   

Download historical data

1. On the equity's page (see below) click "Dane historyczne".
   
2. On the next page you can set up data to be downloaded.
   
   1. "Start Date" and "End Date" tells the time interval to download. (When changing this please think of how many data points you need for the analysis. Some indicators may be inaccurate when using too few data.)
   2. At "Interval" select (Daily) [weekly data is calculated by the chart software from the daily data, no need to download weekly resolution].
   3. "dividends" under "Skip" tells whether to download the market price or prices corrected with dividends. (This function does not have an effect in every case.)
   4. "splits" under "Skip" tells whether to download the market price or prices corrected with splits. (This function does not have an effect in every case.)
3. Click "Download data in .csv file" at the bottom of the page to download data in a ".csv" file.
   

Hint: if you save the page where you have just downloaded data from to the "Favourites" or "Bookmarks" you do not have to do all the searching process again but you can navigate to the page of the data download directly by recalling it from the "Favourites" or "Bookmarks".