STREAMING SHARE PRICES IN EXCEL

With ADVFN, you can stream share prices directly into an Excel spread sheet.

Many different values are available, from current price, bid and offer to the volume of shares flagged as sells or yesterday's closing bid price.

See below for a full description of what's available.

How Do I Get Live Streaming Share Prices in Excel?

1. Subscribe to ADVFN Stealth.
2. Download and install the ADVFN DDE software.
3. Download your Monitor list as a spread sheet using the box below. Make a note of where you're saving the file; you'll need to find it later (the default is normally the Downloads folder). The spread sheet will contain all the symbols in your monitor available via DDE as well as all the columns available via the platform. See below for more details on the markets and bits of information you can get in DDE.
4. Run the DDE software by going to the Start menu at the bottom left of your screen > All programs > ADVFNDDE and clicking on the ADVFNDDE program. You'll need to enter your normal ADVFN username and password.
5. Open your Monitor spread sheet. You might be prompted to update and enable links to other data sources or something similar (depending on the version of Excel you are using). Click Update or OK and prices will start to stream into your spread sheet.

Do I Have To Use Excel?

Excel is great, but can be a little pricey. If you don't have access to Excel, there are a couple of great free pieces of software you can try, OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Both include free versions of word processing, spread sheet and presentation software.

As DDE is a widely used technology, you may be able to get ADVFN prices into other software. We concentrate on and support it in Excel, OpenOffice and LibreOffice.

Can I Customise My Spreadsheet?

Any formulas, charts, styles, conditional formatting, or anything else available in your spread sheet software can be applied to the figures you stream from ADVFN.

Being able to apply your own customised analysis to the figures is one of the most useful things about getting price data streaming into a spread sheet and you can do pretty much anything you like by combining Excel with ADVFN DDE.

Can I Build a Spreadsheet From Scratch?

Yes. You can build up your own sheet of streaming prices by entering the formula corresponding to the bit of data you after into each cell. The formula is slightly different depending on whether you're using Excel or OpenOffice/LibreOffice, but you'll quickly get the hang of it.

A handy tool for generating the code you need is below:

If you're feeling a bit more adventurous, you can put the formulae together yourself. The basic formats for the formula are:

Excel	=ADVFN|EXCHANGE_SYMBOL!COMMAND
OpenOffice & LibreOffice	=DDE("ADVFN";"EXCHANGE_SYMBOL";"COMMAND")

Whilst this might seem daunting initially, have a closer look and you'll see that there are only 3 things you need to put in to get the value you want EXCHANGE, SYMBOL & COMMAND. The rest of the formula stays the same every time.

EXCHANGE is the market the symbol trades on. For instance, you would use LSE if your stock trades on the London Stock Exchange.

SYMBOL is what you'd normally use on the site to get a quote. For instance, VOD if you want to see a quote for Vodafone.

COMMAND is the bit of data you want. For instance, you would use CHANGE if you want to know the change value.

Excel	=ADVFN|LSE_VOD!CHANGE
OpenOffice & LibreOffice	=DDE("ADVFN";"LSE_VOD";"CHANGE")

Exchange codes

Use the code in the left hand column to specify the EXCHANGE

Code	Exchange
LSE	London Stock Exchange
NASDAQ	NASDAQ
NYSE	New York Stock Exchange
AMEX	American Stock Exchange
BIT	Italian Stock Exchange
BITA	Afterhour Italy
BITMOT	Italian Stock Exchange MOT
EU	Euronext
FTSE	FTSE Indices
NASDAQI	NASDAQ Indices
DOWI	Dow Jones Indices
SPI	Standard & Poors Indices
USOTC	OTCMarkets
FX	Forex
TSX	Toronto Stock Exchange
TSXV	TSX Venture Exchange
DBI	Deutsche Boerse Indices
ASE	Athens Stock Exchange
ASI	Athens Indices
NYMEX
COMEX
ASX	Australian Stock Exchange
BOV	Brazil Bovespa Exchange
BMF	BM&F - Brazilian Commodities
BITI	Italian Stock Exchange Indices
COIN	Cryptocurrency
AQSE	Aquis Stock Exchange
USI	US Indices
TG	Tradegate (DE)

Command codes

Use the code in the left hand column to specify the COMMAND

	Code	Description
Price data
	CUR	Current price
	CHANGE	Difference between the current price and yesterday's closing price
	CHANGE_PC	Difference between the current price and yesterday's closing price, expressed as a percentage (%)
	MID	Value half way between the bid and offer prices
	BID	Price the instrument can be sold at
	OFFER	Price the instrument can be bought at (also known as the Ask)
	OPEN	Price the instrument opened at today
	HIGH	Highest value the current price has hit today
	LOW	Lowest value the current price has hit today
	CLOSE	The closing price for an instrument, the last price of the day
	VOLUME	Total volume traded today
	LAST_CHANGE_TIME	Last time the current price changed

Deeper data
	YEST_CLOSE	Yesterday's closing price
	YEST_BID	Yesterday's bid price when trading finished
	YEST_OFFER	Yesterday's offer price when trading finished
	SPREAD	Difference between the bid and offer prices
	SPREAD_PC	Difference between the bid and offer prices, expressed as a percentage (%)
	OPEN_CHANGE	Difference between the open price and the current price
	OPEN_CHANGE_PC	Difference between the open price and the current price, expressed as a percentage
	UNCROSSING_PRICE	Resulting price of an auction. Will not be present for all markets
	UNCROSSING_VOLUME	Resulting volume for an auction. Will not be present for all markets
	DAILY_VWAP	Volume weighted average price for the day. Will not be present for all markets
	PERIOD_VWAP	Volume weighted average price for the day for an exchange defined period. Will not be present for all stocks
	OPEN_INTEREST	Open interest for derivatives. Will not be present for all markets

Trade data
	TRADE_PRICE_0	Most recent trade price
	LAST_TRADE_SIZE	Size of the last trade
	LAST_TRADE_TIME	Time of the last trade
	LAST_TRADE_TYPE	Type of the last trade
	NUM_TRADES	Number of trades reported today
	BUY_VOLUME	Total number of shares traded at a price which was closest to the offer at the time of trading
	SELL_VOLUME	Total number of shares traded at a price which was closest to the bid at the time of trading
	UNKNOWN_VOLUME	Total number of shares traded at a price which was the mid price, or the trade report was delayed
	BUY_PC	Buy volume expressed as a percentage of the total volume
	SELL_PC	Sell volume expressed as a percentage of the total volume
	UNKNOWN_PC	Unknown volume expressed as a percentage of the total volume
	TRADE_HIGH	Highest traded price
	TRADE_LOW	Lowest trades price
	TRADE_PRICE_1	Second to last trade price
	TRADE_PRICE_2	Third to last trade price
	TRADE_PRICE_3	Fourth to last trade price
	TRADE_PRICE_4	Fifth to last trade price

Information
	NAME	Name of the stock
	SYMBOL	Stock symbol
	MARKET	Market for the stock
	DESCRIPTION	Stock description
	ISIN	International Securities Identification Number
	CURRENCY	Currency unit

Bear in mind that not all commands can be used for all markets and symbol. The data might not exist or just not be available.

Where Can I Get Help Using DDE?

If you get stuck, call us on 1-888-992-3836, send us an email to help@advfn.com, use the chat button at the bottom of this page or ask a question on the DDE forum.

Things To Remember:

• Always start the ADVFN DDE software before you start up your spread sheet

  Starting the spread sheet first will make your computer think there is no data available to stream.

• You need a subscription to use DDE

  DDE - Excel Integration subscription will give you access to DDE.