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title: load
description: This page provides information on loading stock tickers for analysis
  and includes usage examples and parameters details. It also explains how to handle
  Indian tickers and find available markets.
keywords:
- stock analysis
- load stock ticker
- financial data
- stock market data
- Indian stock market
- financial analysis parameters
- market hours
- custom file loading
- intraday stock minutes
- 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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