Free futures price data is not readily available, so here's how you can quickly get access to historical futures contract price data from Yahoo Finance in python using the yahoo_fin library.

You can find all the code from the video below.

https://github.com/AdamGetbags/yahooFuturesData/blob/main/yahooFuturesData.py

0:31 open the docs

0:56 pip install yahoo_fin

1:28 import modules

1:32 find and assign futures contract ticker

2:13 request futures price data

2:32 review the data

2:44 plot the price data

2:56 continuous contract data WARNING

3:15 request futures price for specific settlement date

3:39 review the data

4:14 LET'S GET THESE BAGS

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