Historical Stock Prices : Yahoo Finance

Historical stock quotes for your analysis can be obtained from many sources, some of them sell you the data and charge your credit card on a monthly basis like: DialData, Prophet Finance, ESignal, Reuters DataLink ... Other sources like Yahoo Finance, MSN, Lycos Finance provide more or less the same data for free. Is there any big difference between paid and free service?

Stock market history available for free is from the same source as you pay for! The primary source is Stock Exchange, then the data is being accumulated and corrected by major data vendors for further distribution between big content providers and retail customers like you and me. The question is only how reliable and fast are the data servers and other technical issues.

Free historical stock quotes

Metastock, Tradestation and Supercharts users can now download free stock data from Yahoo Finance directly into charting software without any data conversions. This can be done by using one of the following utilities:

qCenter	Metastock users or users of TA software, which can read Metastock format: qCenter can download free Intraday prices, Daily, Weekly, Monthly data from Yahoo Finance and Quote.com servers. The downloads are pretty fast. The only thing you need is to install a free Metastock Downloader 8.0 or higher.
Quotelf Omega	Omega research TradeStation and Supercharts users can download and install Quotelf Omega Downloader which downloads End-of-day, weekly, monthly quote history directly into Omega Downloader shipped with your TS or SC software. mldownloader stockquotes
HQuote Pro	This is for those who use Advanced Get, Elliott Wave Analyzer or any other program which reads ASCII (textual) format, including spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel. HQuote Pro downloads mutual funds, mldownloader stocks, market indexes, stockquotes commodities futures on intraday and EOD basis. Portfolio tracking features added.

Historical stock data: Nasdaq Dow Jones

Have you not forget about how much you are paying for your current data feed? Just 30 to 50 dollars? More?? Then multiply it by 12 right now! On average you spend $400-500 or more each year. Stop paying these fat bills right now. You have 30-day free trial for any of the above programs and pay nothing for your data, saving $400-500 yearly. Just think a minute and act ...

1. Choose the program you need by the type of TA software you have
2. Click the appropriate link above and go to home URL of the program
3. Download and install software
4. Spend a minute or two reading provided help file
5. Time to start updating your data ...

By the way, you can put a link to Quotelf.com on your web page and save 70% on ordering software!

Other Stock Quote sources :
Futures Guide	Free ASCII data for commodity futures
Live Charts	Lycos Livecharts
Prophet Finance	MetaStock, Window on WallStreet, SuperCharts, TradeStation data updates stockquotes
Wall Street City	Free Historical Stock Quotes in ASCII format
HQuote historical stock quotes Downloader	Streaming real-time quotes mq downloader
End of Day Futures Prices	End of Day Futures Prices
MSN Money	A free service of Microsoft
Yahoo historical data	Free ASCII data from Yahoo HQuote pro