There’s another spreadsheet at http://investexcel.net/218/imp.....nto-excel/ which imports historical stock quotes from Yahoo into Excel

Enjoy!

Edgeseeker

More detailed information here:

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

How do you plan to deal with these types of conversions?

There is Nothing Wrong with Consumption | Sean Lynch | Catallarchy …if a consumption tax were effective for a while in causing people to put more money into their savings accounts or other dollar-denominated securities, over time the central bank wo…

Found this Excel Add-in (smf_addin) that pulls data from various financial websites (Yahoo, MSN, etc.) and inputs the data into specific cells without downloading entire webpages into your spreadsheet.

……

One reason for so much quarterly financial data is so I can do some rolling years of MFI data analysis. Because AdvFN returns 5 quarters at a time, 20 quarters was the lowest common denominator of 5 and 4.

The annual testing went well — only three data items had problems. But I do have a concern whether AdvFN will be consistent in format. I originally set up my parsing for particular strings, but ran into different strings later — two spaces in the middle of a description instead of the one I had seen previously. Looking at the quarterly, it appears to be back to a single space. Not sure how to handle that, especially since it could happen on almost any string I’m searching for.

Quarterly comparison just finished recalculating — everything matched. I’ll be uploading the new release later today.

Max, I’m glad I could help you.

Randy, I think the 20 quarters of quarterly data is excessive. I feel that at most one would only need data on the past eight quarters. The annual data is sufficient for more historical information needs.

I also noticed that there is both Reuters and Google data accessible by the add-in. Did you know that most of Google’s data comes from Reuters? If you want to cut down on the number of data elements, I recommend removing the redundant Google data, especially since Google Finance could still change a lot given that it is still in beta. There might be similar examples of the same data coming from the same parent source being reported on more than one site. I would focus on picking maybe only the original source or the most reliable provider and dropping the redundant data elements.

I really look forward to being able to access the ADVFN data. Thank you and keep up the great work Randy.

Hopefully, the ability should be available soon. I’ve got the AdvFN financial statement elements all mapped out, but have to test the mappings. I’m getting worried about limits though. If I add all of the information for 10 years of the AdvFN financial statements, that’s an additional 2810 data elements. And I was going to add 20 quarters of their quarterly statements, which would be another 5620 data elements.