It’s at http://www.free-stock-data.com and it should be all you need. I originally wrote it for an artificial intelligence project I did in school but it didn’t really work out.

Enjoy!

What I said about stock charts in Excel 2007 applies for Excel 2010. There is one exception: while Excel 2007 has no means in the Excel interface to adjust up-down bar gap width, requiring the use of VBA, Excel 2010 includes a way to do this. I don’t do it much, so I usually have to hunt for a couple minutes.

First, let me say you have the best site for Excel and VBA out there – it’s been indispensable.

I used your tutorials to create a very elaborate stock analysis spreadsheet for my own use. I originally wrote it in Excel 2003. The spreadsheet make extensive use of charting via VBA, calculating and plotting indicators, etc, etc. It’s almost a standalone technical analysis application.

Well, now I’ve opted to upgrade Excel and tried moving the spreadsheet to 2007. Ouch. Very painful – not sure it’s worth the major changes that are going to have to occur.

My question is how stock charting as in this article changes in Office 2010. I basically need to choose whether or not to buy a 2010 license and port everything there or use 2003. If I opt to port, will the changes moving to 2007 easily move to 2010, or is 2007 a “special case” for manipulating stock chart data – converting candlesticks to XY scatters, plotting multiple indicators on the primary axis, and other advanced charting issues? I just need some rationale for deciding how to manage these charting problems in the short and intermediate term.

Thanks!
David

HLC and OHLC data require three or four values for each stock.

If you are plotting one stock, the category axis usually shows some time period. If you are plotting multiple stocks, the horizontal axis shows the stock names. You would arrange the data like this:

The problem is that Excel 2003 was smart, and could realize the data was in columns, but Excel 2010 doesn’t get this. So you have to create a line chart with the data, which by default is plotted by rows (because there are more columns and fewer rows).

Then switch rows and columns in the data source.

Finally, change the chart type to OHLC.

Then I discovered that this chart only works for >= 4 stocks. If you have less than 4 stocks to graph you get that totally unhelpful message.

I was trying to plot 3 stocks and it didn’t work.