
Do Returns from the GOOGLEFINANCE Function In Google Sheets Match Returns from Yahoo Finance? A recent prior post at this blog describes the disabling of a Yahoo Finance feature for downloading historical price and volume data into csv files for free. A Yahoo Finance web page from which you were formerly able to download historical prices without a fee has been updated by the following statement: "Downloading historical data is only available to Gold members." The disabled feature degrades Yahoo Finance as a supplier of free data for security trading analytic projects. As a result, this blog promised to investigate and demonstrate workarounds for the disabled free feature. The Gold member subscription plan is currently priced at $479.40 per year when paid annually. Furthermore, a previously available payment plan for the service on a monthly basis is discontinued as of the time this post is prepared. In evaluating a r...