How to Import Stock Prices from Yahoo Finance to Excel

If you’re trying to import stock quotes in Microsoft Excel from Yahoo Finance, this tutorial can help you. You may need it for many reasons. For example, your trading platform doesn’t have the stock you need to analyze. Many traders use Excel for seasonality and statistical research.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to import stock prices in Excel.

Let’s start! This is an easy tutorial we don’t need vba code or API.

 

Download the Yahoo Finance Excel file of this tutorial from this LINK.

 

Go to yahoo finance, insert your ticker symbol and search your stock quotes. In this tutorial, we’ll use the SPY ETF.

 

 

 

Click on “Historical Data” to obtain all stock quotes

 

 

Select your TimeFrame; we chose Daily. Click on “Download Data” and save the file named “SPY.csv” in your Hard Disk. Obviously, we don’t use real time stock data.

 

 

 

Download the Excel file of this tutorial from this LINK.

 

Yahoo Finance Excel – Data processing before importing

 

This step is optional; we do this to avoid the problem with the system separators. Our decimal separator is the “comma” and the Thousands separator is the “dot”.

The file that you downloaded from Yahoo Finance uses the “comma” to separate the single data and use the “dot” as a decimal separator.

Open the file SPY.csv and click on “Find & Select”

 

 

Now you write a “comma” in “Find What” and a “semicolon” in “Replace with” and click on “Replace All”

 

 

Repeat this process and write a “dot” in “Find What” and a “comma” in “Replace with” and click on “Replace All”

 

 

That’s all. Save the file and close it.

 

 

Download the Excel file of this tutorial from this LINK.

 

Import the file CSV in Excel

 

Now select the “Data” tab and click on “Get Data from Text/CSV” and select the file that you have downloaded from yahoo finance.

 

 

Now choose the delimiter “semicolon” and click Load

 

 

You will create a new table with Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Adjusted Close, Close and Volume columns.

 

 

We have successfully imported data from Yahoo Finance to our Excel table. Now you can analyze all-world stocks without a trading platform. The data is free and is a potent tool for statistical research.

Your next step:

• How to create and draw a stock chart
• How to calculate the Average True Range

 

 

 

Download the Excel file of this tutorial from this LINK.

 

 

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