Where to download free historical stock data

Where to download free historical stock data

I’ve been searching the net for possibilities to download historical stock data for free. For retail investors performing their own analysis in excel or other applications this can hopefully be useful.

• ·  Yahoo! Finance
• ·   Google Finance
• ·   DailyFinance
• ·    FinancialContent
• ·    Dukascopy

Yahoo! Finance lets you download data from over 50 international exchanges to CSV-format. Use this URL:

http://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?a=1&b=1&c=2010&d=8&e=5&f=2013&g=d& %20&ignore=.csv&s=[SYMBOL]

and replace [SYMBOL] with the ticker you wish to download. The URL has several parameters which lets you control the data to fetch.

a=1&b=1&c=2010	The download will start at January 1st 2010
d=8&e=5&f=2013	The download will include data until May 8th 2013
g=d	Daily prices, can also be weekly, monthly

Other parameters to control the data to fetch can be added and there are plenty of examples found on other pages.

Google Finance lets you download daily data for selected symbols for the most recent 12 months. Use this URL and fill in exchange and symbol to get a csv file with daily prices.

http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=[Exchange]:[Symbol]&output=csv

DailyFinance claims that you can download historical prices here but I have not found a link to download in raw format.

FinancialContent provide EOD data and other financial data to download. Registration is required here.

Dukascopy supports download of historical data for forex, commodities, CFD instruments from their website.