How to Check Historical Stock Quotes With Yahoo Finance

With Yahoo Finance, Yahoo members can research investments, track transactions, create personal finance portfolios and check all kinds of stock quotes. Like most other Yahoo services, Yahoo Finance is free and easy to use.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer with Internet access

Create a Yahoo Account

1. Visit Yahoo's home page and sign in to your Yahoo account (see Resources below). If you don't have a Yahoo account, you'll need to register for one before utilizing the full spectrum of Yahoo services, including Yahoo Finance. Refer to the following steps to create your own:

2. Click on the "Sign Up" link on Yahoo's home page.

3. Complete the registration form by entering your name and other requested information. Carefully pick a username to identify yourself online. Next, type in a password that is unique from other passwords you use online and will be easy to remember later.

4. Read the terms of service and select 'I Agree' to complete the registration process. You are now ready to check historical stock quotes with Yahoo Finance.

Check Historical Stock Quotes With Yahoo Finance

5. Go to the Yahoo Finance Web site (see Resources below). When you get to the Finance page, enter the symbol in the field provided for the stock you want to view. Use the 'Look Up Symbol' link next to the symbol field if you don't know the symbol. When you are ready, click the 'Quotes' button.

6. Arrive at the quote page for your chosen stock. Find the section of the page where additional information on your stock can be found. For example, if you are looking at quotes for Disney stock, the section heading would say, "More On DIS."

7. Click the "Historical Prices" link. Select a date range from the menu provided, choose to view the quotes daily, weekly, monthly or by dividends only, then click on the "Get Prices" button.

8. Scroll down to view a list of historical prices for your stock. Click on the "Next" link to view additional pages of quotes.

9. Click on the 'Help' link on the Yahoo Finance home page to get more support in checking historical stock quotes using Yahoo Finance (see Resources below).

Tips & Warnings

• Read the Quote Basics page in the Help section of Yahoo Finance for more information on how to make the most of Yahoo Finance.
• Create a Yahoo Finance portfolio to add stock information to your own personalized portfolios as you view quotes, using an easy one-step link on the quotes page.
• Never give out your personal information to anyone you meet in a chat room or message board. Only enter this information when requested in Yahoo's secure server.

[PeteClimbs]

on 9/20/2008 Question - not a comment. Has anyone figurd out how to get historical quotes via Yahoo's csv system? I mean I invoke finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=AAPL&f=l1 which gives me the current quote. I'd like to specify a date for the quote.