Where to Find Historical Share Price Data?

Submitted by Share Trading on 27 July, 2010 - 10:53

Where can I find some historical share price data, ideally for highly volatile Australian shares. Anyone got any tips as to where to look?

You can access historical prices from Yahoo Finance. Enter the ASX code followed by .ax (eg - bhp.ax). Then select "Historical Prices" (left side of page). Then select period and time span (day, week, month).

Or you can choose to pay for premium data at about $110 from http://www.adest.com.au and get a cd auto corrected (easiest, most reliable) for data feeds.

Big Charts is a US chart site...so you can get the charts and the share prices. 20 minute delay in prices. Always remember to put "au:" then the stock code so you get the Aussie share price. For example: AU:BHP.

If you need it in Metastock format, you can get a fully adjusted historical database for AUD$99 from Premium Data. The database also includes all delisted stocks too, which is far better for backtesting.

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