Comments on: Updating Stock Quotes

By: Lyra

Lyra — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:30:00 +0000

That Yahoo stock quote worksheet is now here: http://investexcel.net/218/importing-historical-stock-prices-from-yahoo-into-excel/

By: Lyra

Lyra — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:46:00 +0000

I've just been messing around with web queries Yahoo Finance in Excel 2010, and can't get it to work. Has anyone had success?

I ended up using the spreadsheet at http://optimizeyourportfolio.blogspot.com/2011/05/importing-historical-stock-prices-from.html to download from Yahoo Finance

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:44:00 +0000

MCB: http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2004/08/17/graphing-web-data/

By: MCB

MCB — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:20:00 +0000

I have the web query working OK and can get stock quotes data.
How do I make it go into a new cell on the next day , so I can save the historical data?

mcb

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:13:00 +0000

Trying something similar - I have the Google Finance data updating into my excel sheets, no problem.

When I try to perform a VLOOKUP against the web data, I'm getting #N/A
(I'm trying to use Symbol column to match up data from a different non-dyanmic source.)

The formula doesn't seem to recognize the symbol column values. If I manually overwrite the symbol name into the web data cells, the VLOOKUP works properly.

Any suggestions?

By: Dick Kusleika

Dick Kusleika — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:25:00 +0000

I don't think so Frank. You can use

ThisWorkbook.RefreshAll

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:26:00 +0000

Wondering if it would be possible to use the statement Thisworkbook.Activesheet.QueryTables(1) for more than one query per sheet ... Anyone has an idea ?
The Thisworkbook.Activesheet.QueryTables.Refresh doesn't work well in this instance !!
Thanks

By: Randy Harmelink

Randy Harmelink — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:26:00 +0000

Take a look at my add-in (click on the link on my name).

I originally wrote the add-in functions because of frustrations I had with EXCEL Web Queries. The add-in is open-source, so you can play around with the code if you want.

The add-in, documentation on its functions, and sample templates can be found in the files area of the Yahoo Group the link will bring you to.

For example, you can use an array-entered formula like:

=RCHGetYahooQuotes(A2:A100,B1:M1)

...where the A2:A100 range contains the ticker symbols and the B1:M1 range contain the codes that tell Yahoo what you want returned. For example, "l1? would indicate you want the last traded price, "o" would indicate you want the day's opening price, etc.

Another function can be used to grab other fundamental data. For example:

=RCHGetElementNumber("MMM",945)

...would get you the "Forward PEG ratio" for ticker "MMM" from Yahoo's Key Statistics page.

There's also a macro (smfUpdateDownloadTable) where you can create a column of stock tickers and a row of element definitions -- run the macro and it will fill in the table based on your column and row definitions. For example, just entering 945 as a row header item would cause the "Forward PEG ratio" above to be retrieved for each ticker in the table you create.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:46:00 +0000

I am a new to macros and need to compile multiple data streams into an excel spreadsheet using a Web Query.
I tried to record the macro but it never accounts for changing symbols as I update the stocklist periodically.
What I need to know is how can I import Earnings, Fundamental and earnings Release Date Date from the web and occupy the columns with the correct data.
I know I need to create a loop as there are 75 symbols and 11 columns that need updating line by line from the web.
I also need the Macro to undertand that it needs to update the specific cells chosen with the corresponding ticker symbol.
As I mentioned above, I recorded a macro and later on I resorted the same ticker symbols alphabetically but found the wrong earnings release dates in the wrong cells.
I have concluded that I cannot just record a macro as there are more steps involved.
Does anyone have any experience with what I am looking to do?
Cheers!

By: John Owen

John Owen — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:32:00 +0000

you can also use Financial Link for Excel to load updating stock quotes, financial statements, estimates, price histories into Excel. Easy-to-use formulas to load the data and also wizards to help you creating the formulas.

More detailed information here:

http://www.xlconsulting.net/flink.php