Select single column from array returned by GetQuote extension

Question

Ted Schlossmacher's free GetQuote extension for OpenOffice.org Calc allows users to access quotes for several types of symbols tracked by Yahoo! Finance. Specifically, the GETHISTORY() function returns a range of past and present quotes.

After installing the extension, try highlighting a 5-column range and then typing =GETHISTORY("PETR4.SA",1,TODAY()-1) (you might need to use semicolons instead of commas) and then pressing Ctrl+Shift+Return. That should provide you with date, open, high, low and close quotes for PETR4, the preferred stock of Brazilian oil giant Petrobras S.A.

My question is: how can I, in one cell, insert a formula that would return me the value of the 5th column of the above array?

Answer 1

This can be done with the INDEX function. You don't need to use ctrl+shift+enter for it to work as it does't return an array.

=INDEX(GETHISTORY("PETR4.SA",1,TODAY()-1),1,5)

The 2 end parameters are row,column, and are a 1-based index into the array.

More information about INDEX can be found on any Excel website, or in the LibreOffice Calc help at https://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Spreadsheet_Functions#INDEX

Answer 2

Yesterday's closing price can be retrieved using a second argument, for example: =GETQUOTE("TD.TO",21)

From the manual: GETQUOTE can fetch 31 types of quotes. The types are numbered from 0 to 30. The function accepts these numbers as the second argument.

 0 = Last traded price 
 1 = Change in price for the day 
 2 = Opening price of the day
 3 = High price of the day 
 4 = Low price of the day 
 5 = Volume 
 6 = Average Daily Volume 
 7 = Ask Price 
 8 = Bid Price 
 9 = Book Value 
10 = Dividend/Share 
11 = Earnings/Share 
12 = Earnings/Share Estimate Current Year 
13 = Earnings/Share Estimate Next Year 
14 = Earnings/Share Estimate Next Quarter 
15 = 52-week low
16 = Change from 52-week low
17 = 52-week high
18 = Change from 52-week high
19 = 50-day Moving Average
20 = 200-day Moving Average
21 = Previous Close
22 = Price/Earning Ratio
23 = Dividend Yield
24 = Price/Sales
25 = Price/Book
26 = PEG Ratio
27 = Price/EPS Estimate Current Year
28 = Price/EPS Estimate Next Year
29 = Short Ratio
30 = 1-year Target Price

Answer 3

If you need only the latest price (which is the fifth field) I believe you can simply use:

=GETQUOTE("PETR4.SA")

I'm not certain this works to return the current price when markets are open, but it does return the last trade price when markets are closed.