How do you get started pulling stock data into your spreadsheet? There are two methods you can use to get setup. One neat feat that has come with Data Types is Excel now has the ability to realize when you are working with stock information. After you have typed three consecutive stock names or ticker symbols, Excel will most likely recognize what you are trying to do and give you a prompt to convert the cells into a Stock data type. You also have the option to manually tell Excel your cell data should be converted into the stock data type.
Next click the Stocks button within the Data Types group. If Excel needs help, it will provide suggested options for your entered value in the right pane. Now that you have Linked Stock data types set up in the spreadsheet, you can begin to add fields containing metrics and information about the specific stocks in your data set. Select one and the field will be added to the right of your current data set.
If you are one to rely more on memory, there is a formula nomenclature your can write to bring in these pieces of data. Unfortunately, no headings will auto-populate along with the fields you add. Also, note that the new field data is only added to the originally selected stock. You will need to drag down the formulas in order to get the rest of the data populating with all of your stocks. The Stocks and Geography data types are considered linked data types.
For security, you should only use the Google Sheet to list the stock quotes. Don't add other personal financial data to the published sheet. But, that add-in no longer works. Instead, Excel uses the new Stock data types, like those included in my template above.
It is possible to create a web query to access historical stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance or some other site, but I have found this approach to be somewhat cumbersome. Perhaps a better way to do this is to download historical stock quote data into Excel from Yahoo Finance:. Using this method, you can schedule a procedure to run at a specified time. The procedure name is updateStockPrice. Therefore, now the Macro will call the procedure updateStockPrice every 10 seconds.
It runs a loop every 10 sec through each script in the workbook, opens Internet Explorer and fetches current price and change from the web page. The macro uses Internet Explorer object to communicate with a web page.
It opens the IE browser on your computer, but remains hidden. In some cases it may not update the figures on your Excel worksheet. You can extract a variety of data from Rediff Money for your portfolio. Honestly, I am not sure if there are any restrictions imposed by Rediff. I am just using the information provided as it is for my example here, on how to get current stock price using a Macro in Excel.
Since, I am extracting data from a third party website; it is always possible that they will make changes to the web pages. In that case, you too might have to make changes in the Macro, accordingly. The process of getting stock prices using Internet Explorer may be slow. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi, For details about getting a stock quote, kindly refer to the links below: Get a stock quote. Learn how to use the Stock Analysis template with Excel Hope these can help.
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