It’s been a real difficult task to get free and reliable stock data for your backtesting. There are plethora of utilities available over internet to download free stock data, but most of them are outdated or demo versions. In this post, we would explore a ready made utility to download multiple stock quotes into excel for free. This utility downloads stock quotes into Excel through a VBA macro. The source for this data is Yahoo Finance. See another similar utility to download data from Google Finance here.
PS: This Excel has been originally published at http://investexcel.net. Full credit goes to the original creator.
Excel Sheet Overview
Check this if you want to generate output in a separate CSV file and also specify the file path
| Parameter | Description | |
| Worksheet Name | Parameters | |
| Inputs | Start Date and End Date (Cell B5,B6) | The start and end date for which you want to download the stock quotes |
| Frequency (Cell B7) | Timeframe of data download (d stands for Daily, m stands for Monthly, w stands for Weekly) | |
| Write to CSV (Cell B8) | Check this if you want to output the results in a separate CSV file. Also mention the path of file. | |
| Collate Data (Cell A9) | Indicates whether you want to collate the data for all stocks into one sheet. Collate Data stacks Close, Open, High, Low, Adjusted Close and Volume into the same sheets (with the date) for all tickers. | |
| Stock Symbols (from Cell A12) | Standard Yahoo stock symbols for which you want to download data. List of all Yahoo stock symbols can be found at this link. | |
| Outputs | Individual Sheets | Downloaded data for each scrip would be stored in individual worksheets named after the stock symbol. |
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How to use this Excel Sheet?
Please follow the below instructions to download multiple stock quotes into Excel for free:
Step 1: Download the sheet from the end of this post to your local computer.
Step 2: Open this Excel file and make sure you are connected to internet. Please accept if it asks to enable Macros and Data connections.
Step 3: Input Start Date, End Date and Frequency in the ‘Parameters’ sheet.
Step 4: Enter the list of Stock symbols in the same sheet. You may download standard Yahoo symbols for any stock or index here.
Step 5: Click on ‘Get Bulk Quotes‘ button. Downloaded data for each scrip would be stored in individual worksheets named after the stock symbol. The main sheet also shows the success and failure of data download symbol wise.
Download Link
Please download the Excel sheet from the below link. Let us know in the comments section if you have any queries.
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