I just noticed on a digg story that Google Spreadsheets lets you put live stock data in the cells. It’s the same as Google Finance data, which means it has the typical 20-minute delay. If it were real-time data, I’d use the heck out of it to program complicated real-time alerts based on a bunch of criteria. With a 20-minute delay, it’d just be pointing out opportunities I’ve already missed. :-(
I could maybe see this used to publish a shared spreadsheet that determined in 20-min delay time which stocks are posting higher than average volume for the day. Maybe there are other good ideas out there. The key limitation to doing anything too complex with it, is that you can’t ask for the quote for a day/time. Like, imagine what you could do for swing trading off daily charts if you could have a list of cells for the closing price for the last 50 days. Suddenly a whole wealth of technical indicators could be programmed in, spreadsheet-wise. And, every 20 minutes it would update. Kinda cool. If it’s all keyed to a symbol on the top row, just changing that symbol does the same analysis for a different stock, etc. But, it’s not quite there, yet.
You can get:
- price: market price of the stock - delayed by up to 20 minutes.
- priceopen: the opening price of the stock for the current day.
- high: the highest price the stock traded for the current day.
- low: the lowest price the stock traded for the current day.
- volume: number of shares traded of this stock for the current day.
- marketcap: the market cap of the stock.
- tradetime: the last time the stock traded.
- datadelay: the delay in the data presented for this stock using the googleFinance() function.
- volumeavg: the average volume for this stock.
- pe: the Price-to-Earnings ratio for this stock.
- eps: the earnings-per-share for this stock.
- high52: the 52-week high for this stock.
- low52: the 52-week low for this stock.
- change: the change in the price of this stock since yesterday’s market close.
- beta: the beta value of this stock.
- changepct: the percentage change in the price of this stock since yesterday’s close.
- closeyest: yesterday’s closing price of this stock.
- shares: the number of shares outstanding of this stock.
- currency: the currency in which this stock is traded.