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Automating Financial Data Collection and Uploading to Hugging Face for Algorithmic Trading

· 6 min read
Vadim Nicolai
Senior Software Engineer at Vitrifi

Introduction

In the fast-paced world of algorithmic trading, accessing reliable and timely financial data is essential for backtesting strategies, optimizing models, and making data-driven trading decisions. Automating data collection can streamline your workflow and ensure that you have access to the most recent market information. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to automate the collection of stock data using Python and yfinance, and how to upload this data to Hugging Face for convenient access and future use.

Although this article uses NVIDIA stock data as an example, the process is applicable to any publicly traded company or financial instrument. By integrating data collection and storage into one automated pipeline, traders and analysts can focus on what matters most—developing strategies and maximizing returns.