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Adding Penny Stocks

Hey, I'm new here and I'm very excited about the work that's going on here. I was wondering if stocks from the OTC BB could be added. I'd love to see how these algorithms fair against smaller stocks with high volatility. It's more of an experiment but it would help if all stocks were indexed. Thanks and I look forward to trying to be on here as much as I can!

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Khari,

As of now, you can't access penny stocks from the OTC BB, but if you can find information past prices in a CSV, you can load the data into Quantopian using fetch_csv. I've attached an algo that does just that with Growlife, a penny stock found on the OTC BB. If you have more questions please feel free to post it here and I'll help out where I can.

-Seong

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Any suggestions on where to find these past prices in csv?

You can get the data here: http://eoddata.com/ --
Is it true though that there is no way to simulate buy/sell with the pinksheets?