New features:
- A new DataType class has been introduced, making it much easier and more flexible to utilize historical data stored in local datasources
- Now datatypes can be defined with parameters followed by a "|" in its name, like "close|b" represents "back adjusted close price".
- A new data_channel module has been defined for qteasy, allowing users to download data from different online sources
- More data tables are defined to store more types of financial historical data.
- Enhanced real-time price data acquisition APIs, allowing real-time data been downloaded from different sources
- More introduction to above new features can be found in qteasy documents.
Deprecated
- The old way of extracting adjusted price data with parameter "adj" is deprecated, although still supported, now adjusted prices can be acquired with datatypes with parameter like "close|b" or "open|f"
- The old way of getting composition data, "wt_000300.SH" is deprecated and replaced by datatype with parameter: "wt_idx|%" where % is any index code
- More introductions to the new datatypes can be found in qteasy documents.
What's Changed
* Improvement on Historical Data Management by shepherdpp in https://github.com/shepherdpp/qteasy/pull/186
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/shepherdpp/qteasy/compare/1.3.12...1.4.0