This is a guest post by Ben Richardson. At first sight, Excel seems like a tool for hobbyists looking to crunch numbers in the back of their notebooks. However, Excel is essential in the financial world as it is the primary analytical tool used by the majority of investors around the world, from stock brokers […]
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One of the best places to get free historical price data going back over 60 years is finance.yahoo.com. Yahoo Finance provides historical price data that can be easily downloaded into Microsoft Excel and then used through the spreadsheet to backtest and study by creating formulas and filters. Here are the steps to download the historical stock
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This is a Guest Post by @BullDudeC of BullDude.com. A Japanese candlestick chart is a type of visual price display of a financial instrument. Usually charts are displayed as a line that combines the closing prices of the various trading sessions. The disadvantage of this type of display is that only the closing price
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