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Bye Yahoo Finance! Hi Alpha Vantage!
By KPO and CZM  •  November 10, 2017
Yahoo Finance decided to discontinued their API services last week and cause a lot of spreadsheets and Excel around the world to break including mine. lol. SGX data is very expensive hence Google Finance does not provide it and others charge a fee for it. Stocks.cafe (formerly SGX cafe) is paying thousands for the licensing fee - The True Cost of Being Free.

Kyith from Investment Moats was kind enough to come out with a workaround by pulling all the SGX stock price from his own site/server - Yahoo Finance Data Shuts Down – My Modification to My Stock Portfolio Tracker. However, that is slightly overkilled (loading 1022 stocks) if I am only interested in a few stocks' price.


While looking online for another alternative for SGX data, I saw people recommending Alpha Vantage and decided to give it a try. It is actually very easy to set up and I also found a...
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By KPO and CZM
I am Ong and my fiancee (Chan Zui Mao a.k.a CMZ) calls me a Kiam Pok (i.e. stingy/thrifty depending on how you look at it). Hence, the nickname KPO (Kiam Pok Ong). We have decided to name the blog KPO because I have proposed to CMZ successfully and she is officially a KPO too. The purpose of the blog is to list down all the money-saving tips, our investment/journey to financial freedom and to document my life with CZM.
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