Post #2087 by FlyingCircus on the Mechanical Investing board

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Google Sheet.
symbol in A1.
Two choices: current price delayed 20 minutes: =googlefinance(A1,"price")
historical price data either rolling or from a fixed point:
=googlefinance(a1,"price",start date (which can be something like today()-250 or a typical Excel date formula),end date, interval (daily or weekly).
such as
GOOGLEFINANCE("GOOG", "price", "1/1/2014", "12/31/2014", "DAILY")

self-documented with all the other attribute parameter values you can use, including basic fundamentals, and can be run with different (limited) parameters against mutual funds.

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