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Maximum History Lookback For Data Feed Providers
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Description
Expected Behavior
We document the maximum lookback for history requests and warm-up from each data feed.
If the API has information, we link to it (since it may change).
Actual Behavior
Undocumented for most of the brokerage data feeds, IQFeed, and Polygon.
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- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the brokerage data feeds, IQFeed, and Polygon documentation pages linked in the issue, then review the provider API information they reference. Document the maximum history lookback and warm-up available for each affected feed, including links where applicable; the work is done when these limits are covered for the feeds described as undocumented.
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Assessment
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100