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Hi Anders, thanks for the reply.  Unfortunately, my Youtube video was removed from my post, but what I can tell you is that ImportHTML allows me to specify the table to pull data.  I then use the Index function to get the specific data I want.  This is extremely useful when pulling data from sites such as Finviz where the summary page contains many tables.  I have not figure out a way to do this with "get data from web" as it seems to want a web page that contains a single table.  For example, one of the common ways I use this is as follows:

=Index(ImportHMTL("http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t="&B2,"table", 8), 11, 6)

This call will get the data for a specific ticker symbol from table number 8 and then the index function will return the Earnings data from row 11 col 6.

=Index(ImportHMTL("http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t="&B2,"table", 8), 1, 4) - returns the PE ratio

If there is a way to do this using the method you described, can you possibly provide an example?

Thanks,

Kevin

Hi Mynda,

The example links are in my previous post.  The &B2 portion is just a parameter which is a stock ticker such as AAPL.  I will play around with Power Query, but I'm not very proficient in it.

On another note, I did discover the Stock feature under the Data tab which works fairly well, but it does not return all of the attributes I need.

Cheers!

Kevin

Thanks Anders,

I did look at the stock history function, but unfortunately, it only returns the close, unlike Google Sheets ImportHTML() where I can't go after any specific attribute from a table.  I also played around the Power Query suggested by both you and Mynda, but it is not really what I am looking for because I need to return specific attributes in the table of stocks.  So given the following example:

          A           B            C                D                 E             F             G

1    Symbol   Price   Change %  Change $    Gain %     Gain $   Dividend

2    VXC        $46.63     0.39%           $0.90        12.26%     $25.47       $0.17

3    AQN       $21.98     0.55%          $12.00         0.32%       $7.05       $0.00

I currently acquire the values for row 2 in Google Sheets using either ImportHTML() (For Finviz or other sources) or GoogleFinance() as follows:

Price          =GoogleFinance(A2, "Price")

Change %  =GoogleFinance(A2, "Changepct")

Change $   =GoogleFinance(A2, "Change")

Dividend    =Index(ImportHTML("http://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t="&A2,"table",8),7,2)

etc.

In Excel I can get most of the way to my goal using the "Stocks" Data Type in the Queries & Connections pane, which is actually perfect for my needs.  Unfortunately, the Stocks data type is limited in the number of attributes it can return.  It will not return attributes such as ATR, RSI, EPS, Dividend and many more.  I can also use Power Query to download data from Finviz for a particular stock, but that is not dynamic which is needed because I am constantly adding new stocks to my portfolio.  I even figured out how to parameterize the Power Query, but again I'm not sure how to achieve my requirement on the row by row basis from my portfolio since each row is a download of data from Finviz for a specific stock ticker.  I suspect I will just have to live with what is available in the Stocks data type for now and hope Microsoft adds more attributes over time.

I have a great Stock Tracker built using Google Sheets, but I don't like the idea of Big Brother having access to my data.  This is the only reason I am looking to rebuild using Excel.

Cheers!

Hi Mynda,

Sorry, I don't think I am doing a good job of explaining myself.  Those fields I listed were just examples.... there are over a dozen attributes that I cannot get using Excel unless I use Power Query.  Power Query just isn't a good solution for a dynamic list of stocks when I need real-time data for each row every time I open the workbook.

I'm sure an Excel guru like you could figure out a solution, but it is just beyond my capabilities given my current knowledge in Excel.  I have decided to just stick with Google Sheets for this solution until Excel matures a bit more in this area.  I would love to send you a Youtube link for a really nice Google Sheet Portfolio Manager, but the link was removed from my original post.

Cheers!

Kevin

Here is an example that I started with.  I thought I would send it to you in case you are looking for another video idea.  I'm sure anything you came up with would be better than this.

Cheers!