BTW, When you start the contents of any spreadsheet cell with an “=”, the sheet expects a formula. The asterisked inputs are optional, but we’ll focus on those, since that’s how you get historical price data. =GoogleFinance(ticker, *attribute, *start-date, *end-date, *interval) The format of the Google Finance function, used in a cell formula, is simply You can also use my other stock tracker spreadsheet template to go deeper on using current AND historic data in a format which lets you analyze the performance of hypothetical buy trades. If you are knowledgable about stock investing, I suggest you look more at that help page to see the extensive set of data you can get for current data when only retrieving one data attribute at a time. I’ll explain here the set of options that provides a simple history of stock price and other data - and won’t cover the many more options when requesting simply current data on a stock.
SEE MYTRACKS HISTORICAL DATA IN GOOGLE FIT FULL
The Google Finance function inputs are described in full in the Google Sheets help page. It will warn you if that returned data would have overwritten other data in your sheet. It will return a whole table of data - one or more rows, one or more columns - in many cases. The other special characteristic of this Google Finance function is that it will return data into more than the one cell where the formula is entered. When using any spreadsheet formula, it’s important to understand those inputs, which gives you an idea of the options you have when you use the formula. But like any formula, it will require some inputs that you must provide. The Google Finance function is unique in that it obtains data from a completely separate source of historic stock price data. Most Spreadsheet formulas use data from within the spreadsheet you are working in - and sometimes take data from other spreadsheets. Even if you’re not a Spreadsheet superhero yet, and perhaps not comfortable yet with spreadsheet formulas, you can easily learn to use the Google Finance function - especially using the simple instructions in this post and the Google Sheet template I provide. I like to use a more direct method of getting the data into a spreadsheet, a Google Sheet in particular - and that is the GOOGLEFINANCE() Function. While some of the internet tools give me the ability to “export” stock data into a spreadsheet format (CSV or XLSX), that creates more work - saving the data, importing it into a spreadsheet, getting the formats right. A spreadsheet gives me flexibility to analyze the data, chart it, add hypothetical trades (yes, fake trades so I don’t actually lose money ) and use it in other contexts by simply copying and pasting.
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