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title: load
description: This page provides comprehensive instructions and details on how to load
  stock ticker for market analysis, using various parameters. Details on how to choose
  the starting and ending date, intraday stock minutes, pre and post market hours
  are provided. There are also instructions on how to load custom files and specific
  frequency data such as monthly or weekly.
keywords:
- stock ticker
- market analysis
- intraday stock
- prepost market
- load stock data
- analysis parameters
- data frequency
- load custom file
- SBIN.NS
- Indian ticker
- monthly data
- weekly data
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Load stock ticker to perform analysis on. When the data source is syf', an Indian ticker can be loaded by using '.NS' at the end, e.g. 'SBIN.NS'. See available market in https://help.yahoo.com/kb/exchanges-data-providers-yahoo-finance-sln2310.html.

### Usage

```python
load -t TICKER [-s START] [-e END] [-i {1,5,15,30,60}] [-p] [-f FILEPATH] [-m] [-w] [-r {ytd,1y,2y,5y,6m}]
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Description | Default | Optional | Choices |
| ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- | ------- |
| ticker | Stock ticker | None | False | None |
| start | The starting date (format YYYY-MM-DD) of the stock | 2019-11-21 | True | None |
| end | The ending date (format YYYY-MM-DD) of the stock | 2022-11-25 | True | None |
| interval | Intraday stock minutes | 1440 | True | 1, 5, 15, 30, 60 |
| prepost | Pre/After market hours. Only works for 'yf' source, and intraday data | False | True | None |
| filepath | Path to load custom file. | None | True | None |
| monthly | Load monthly data | False | True | None |
| weekly | Load weekly data | False | True | None |

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