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I found that is possible to retrieve historical data from IB from R using the IBrokers package. However, their website states that the data only goes up to one year back? thus, is it possible to loop so I get for example a 10 year period.

I found that it doesn't make sense to use IB for this since there are better alternatives to retrieve data which are not for free either.

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please do not attempt yourself at this game (finance in general), I highly recommend to follow this friendly advice, it will save you a bunch and more. – Matt Wolf Dec 17 '12 at 15:11
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If you are willing to pay for data, then do that. – chrisaycock♦ Dec 17 '12 at 18:59

closed as not constructive by Bob Jansen, Matt Wolf, chrisaycock♦ Dec 18 '12 at 1:17

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