Background of the data
National Stock Exchange of India Limited is the leading stock exchange of India, located in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is the world’s largest derivatives exchange in 2021 by the number of contracts traded based on the statistics maintained by the Futures Industry Association, a derivatives trade body.
The NIFTY 50 is a benchmark Indian stock market index that represents the weighted average of 50 of the largest Indian companies listed on the National Stock Exchange. It is one of the two main stock indices used in India, the other being the BSE SENSEX.
About the data
This dataset includes data of companies in NIFTY 50. This includes the opening, closing, highest and lowest price of the company stock on daily basis from 1st April 2017 to 19 Nov 2022.
Motivation
I wanted to analyze the stock market from a data scientist's perspective also use machine learning algorithms for predicting stock prices, so I created the dataset.