Download free market data from Portfolio.hu

Portfolio.hu is a Hungarian financial portal. Its data download section is one the most up-to-date data source of Hungarian securities (eg.: stocks, bonds), but the site is in Hungarian.

First steps

Visit http://www.portfolio.hu/history/adatletoltes.tdp.
To proceed, you need to know some Hungarian words, like: "részvény" = stock, "kötvény" = bond.

Downloading stock data

Downloading stock data from Portfolio.hu
  1. In the drop down list "Típus" (type) select "Részvény" (stock).
  2. Select the stock in the Ticker field, like "OTP". (Is is a major bank of Hungary).
  3. By selecting the stock, the values in the "Idõ intervallum" (time interval) changes to the longest possible time interval. You can change it if you want to.
  4. Check every checkbox in the "Adatok" (data) section, just like in the picture above.
  5. You can download data file by clicking "excel tábla" (xls spreadsheet). When saving data file, set the file extension to '.csv' or '.tdp' !