How to get the price for the last 5 minutes?

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How to get the price for the last 5 minutes?

posted Oct 26, 2016

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I am trying to find the price for the last 5 minutes.
I expected to see prices for 9:55 - 10:00 AM, but that's not what I see.

What is going on and why?

Output:

2016-10-20 10:00  PRINT 2016-10-20 13:56:00+00:00    116.915  
2016-10-20 13:57:00+00:00    116.936  
2016-10-20 13:58:00+00:00    116.910  
2016-10-20 13:59:00+00:00    116.940  
2016-10-20 14:00:00+00:00    117.000  
Name: Equity(24 [AAPL]), dtype: float64  
2016-10-21 10:00  PRINT 2016-10-21 13:56:00+00:00    116.780  
2016-10-21 13:57:00+00:00    116.860  
2016-10-21 13:58:00+00:00    116.905  
2016-10-21 13:59:00+00:00    116.890  
2016-10-21 14:00:00+00:00    116.835  
Name: Equity(24 [AAPL]), dtype: float64

2 responses

Please see attached. Seems to work.

Thanks @Grant that helps a lot.

Did not realize that the default time was UTC.

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