No, it is not possible. You can however just reference the lower right cell in another cell.
so if you got back from Google:
A1: "Date" B1: "Close"
A2: "3/3/2000" B2: "55.22"
A3: "Date" B3: "Close"
A4: "3/4/2000" B4: "58.44"
Set cell C1 =B2 and cell C2 =B4
and the results will be:
C1: 55.22
C2: 58.44
you could also put the query in one google doc and then reference it from another google doc if you really wanted to separete the data.
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.
One alternative is to rethink your model and take advantage that ...
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.
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Welcome, Eric! Google Finance tracks exchange rates. The syntax is:
=GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:BRLCAD")where BRLCAD is the two currencies, in this case Brazilian Real to Canadian Dollar, in ISO 4217 format.
Use that as your multiplier to convert from source shares to their value in the new currency. For example, if your price is in A2,
= A2 * GOOGLEFINANCE("CURRENCY:BRLCAD")