Google-sheets – Google Finance Historical Data with Multiple Attributes

Functions like GOOGLEFINANCE are only updated when the spreadsheet is open by a user, there isn't a Google Apps Script method that is able to do this. The closest is SpreadsheetApp.flush() but this only makes that the changes made by the script be pushed to the spreadsheet.

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GOOGLEFINANCE already offer a way to report historic data. The syntax is

GOOGLEFINANCE(ticker, [attribute], [start_date], [end_date|num_days], [interval])

Example

The following formula returns the daily close values of NASDAQ:GOOG from January 1, 2017 to today.

A1:

=GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:GOOG","price","1/1/2017",TODAY())

The following formula returns the daily close values of NASDAQ:AMZN from January 1, 2017 to today.

D1:

=GOOGLEFINANCE("NASDAQ:AMZN","price","1/1/2017",TODAY())

To calculate the daily average, we could not use AVERAGE with ARRAYFORMULA but we could use the + and / operands:

G1:

=ArrayFormula((B2:B+E2:E)/2)

Note:
Suggestion: Delete the blank rows at the bottom in order to make the calculation of the daily average just for the rows with data.

The history daily average will be calculate from the start date to the actual date every time that the spreadsheet be recalculated.

Result (extract):

Date               Close        Date               Close        Average
 1/3/2017 16:00:00  786.14       1/3/2017 16:00:00  786.14      786.14
 1/4/2017 16:00:00   786.9       1/4/2017 16:00:00   786.9       786.9
 1/5/2017 16:00:00  794.02       1/5/2017 16:00:00  794.02      794.02
 1/6/2017 16:00:00  806.15       1/6/2017 16:00:00  806.15      806.15
 1/9/2017 16:00:00  806.65       1/9/2017 16:00:00  806.65      806.65
1/10/2017 16:00:00  804.79      1/10/2017 16:00:00  804.79      804.79

Note:
Google spreadsheet functions are only recalculated while the spreadsheet is open, so using a script to be ran while the spreadsheet is not opened by anyone will retrieve the values saved the last time the spreadsheet was online-opened/synced offline changes.

References

• Can a Google Spreadsheet be recalculated if it's not manually opened?
• Set a spreadsheet’s location and calculation settings

={"TSLA", MIN(INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("TSLA", "low",  "7/23/2018", TODAY(), 1),, 2)),
  VLOOKUP(MIN(INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("TSLA", "low",  "7/23/2018", TODAY(), 1),, 2)), 
             {INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("TSLA", "low",  "7/23/2018", TODAY(), 1),, 2), 
                    GOOGLEFINANCE("TSLA", "low",  "7/23/2018", TODAY(), 1)}, 2, 0), 
          MAX(INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("TSLA", "high", "7/23/2018", TODAY(), 1),, 2)),
  VLOOKUP(MAX(INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("TSLA", "high", "7/23/2018", TODAY(), 1),, 2)), 
             {INDEX(GOOGLEFINANCE("TSLA", "high", "7/23/2018", TODAY(), 1),, 2), 
                    GOOGLEFINANCE("TSLA", "high", "7/23/2018", TODAY(), 1)}, 2, 0)}