How to Download and Display Historical Price and Volume Data Data are the lifeblood of analytics, and this post aims to give you an introduction to downloading historical price and volume data from Yahoo Finance. Google’s Gemini app claims that the Yahoo Finance site attracts as many as 100 million visitors per month. Some reasons for this degree of popularity may be because the site offers free news videos, price quotes, and historical data. It also offers a premium line of services in addition to its free services. After you collect historical data, you can analyze the data by transferring them to your favorite analytics package. This post includes simple demonstrations for how to transfer historical data downloaded from Yahoo Finance to three different popular analytics packages (i.e., Excel, SQL Server, and Python). What kind of historical data will you learn to download? The following screenshot shows an example of the type of historical data that this pos