Access Alpha Vantage in Excel

Data results output in Excel

Alpha Vantage is an excellent free API that offers a variety of stock, foreign exchange and crypto/digital currency data.

Stock Time Series

Retrieves realtime and historical equity data.
Parameters:

  • Symbol (aka ticker)
  • Function - Intraday, Daily, Daily Adjusted, Weekly, Weekly Adjusted, Monthly, Monthly Adjusted
  • Interval - Time interval between two consecutive data points in the time series. 1min, 5min, 15min, 30min, 60min.

Batch Stock Quotes

Returns multiple (up to 100) real-time stock quotes.
Parameters:

Foreign exchange (FX)

Retrieves realtime exchange rate for 157 physical currencies and 460+ digital currencies.
Lists of currencies supported (in csv format) - physical / digital.

Digital/Crypto Time Series

Real-time intraday time series (in 5-minute intervals) for digital/crypto currencies (e.g., BTC) traded on a specific market (e.g., EUR).
Parameters:

Technical Indicator - MACD

Returns moving average convergence / divergence (MACD) values
Parameters:

  • Symbol (aka ticker) - Stock symbol (e.g., GOOGL) of your choice.
  • Interval - Time interval between two consecutive data points in the time series - 1min, 5min, 15min, 30min, 60min, daily, weekly, monthly.
  • Series Type - Price type in the time series - close, open, high, low. Only required for some indicators.
  • Fastperiod (optional)
  • Slowperiod (optional)
  • Signalperiod (optional)

Technical Indicator - STOCH

Returns stochastic oscillator (STOCH) values
Parameters:

  • Symbol (aka ticker) - Stock symbol (e.g., GOOGL) of your choice.
  • Interval - Time interval between two consecutive data points in the time series - 1min, 5min, 15min, 30min, 60min, daily, weekly, monthly.
  • Fastkperiod (optional) - The time period of the fastk moving average.
  • Slowkperiod (optional) - The time period of the slowk moving average.
  • Slowdperiod (optional) - The time period of the slowd moving average.
  • Slowkmatype (optional) - Moving average type for the slowk moving average. Default is SMA
    • Simple Moving Average (SMA)
    • Exponential Moving Average (EMA)
    • Weighted Moving Average (WMA)
    • Double Exponential Moving Average (DEMA)
    • Triple Exponential Moving Average (TEMA)
    • Triangular Moving Average (TRIMA)
    • T3 Moving Average
    • Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average (KAMA)
    • MESA Adaptive Moving Average (MAMA).
  • Slowdmatype (optional) - Moving average type for the slowd moving average. Default is SMA. Same values as Slowkmatype.

Technical Indicator - BBANDS

Returns Bollinger bands (BBANDS) values
Parameters:

  • Symbol (aka ticker) - Stock symbol (e.g., GOOGL) of your choice.
  • Interval - Time interval between two consecutive data points in the time series - 1min, 5min, 15min, 30min, 60min, daily, weekly, monthly.
  • Time Period - Number of data points used to calculate each moving average value.
  • Series Type - Price type in the time series - close, open, high, low. Only required for some indicators.
  • Nbdevup (optional) - The standard deviation multiplier of the upper band.
  • Nbdevdn (optional) - The standard deviation multiplier of the lower band.
  • Matype (optional) - Moving average type of the time series.
    • Simple Moving Average (SMA)
    • Exponential Moving Average (EMA)
    • Weighted Moving Average (WMA)
    • Double Exponential Moving Average (DEMA)
    • Triple Exponential Moving Average (TEMA)
    • Triangular Moving Average (TRIMA)
    • T3 Moving Average
    • Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average (KAMA)
    • MESA Adaptive Moving Average (MAMA).

Technical Indicator - AROON

Returns Aroon (AROON) values.
Parameters:

  • Symbol (aka ticker) - Stock symbol (e.g., GOOGL) of your choice.
  • Interval - Time interval between two consecutive data points in the time series - 1min, 5min, 15min, 30min, 60min, daily, weekly, monthly.
  • Time Period - Number of data points used to calculate each moving average value.

Technical Indicators

Real-time values of technical indicators for stocks.
Parameters:

  • Symbol (aka ticker) - Stock symbol (e.g., GOOGL) of your choice.
  • Function - technical indicator of your choice.
    • SMA (Simple Moving Average)
    • EMA (Exponential Moving Average)
    • WMA (Weighted Moving Average)
    • DEMA (Double Exponential Moving Average)
    • TEMA (Triple Exponential Moving Average)
    • TRIMA (Triangular Moving Average)
    • KAMA (Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average)
    • MAMA (MESA Adaptive Moving Average)
    • T3 (Triple Exponential Moving Average)
    • RSI (Relative Strength Index)
    • WILLR (Williams %R)
    • ADX (Average Directional Index)
    • ADXR (Average Directional Movement Index Rating)
    • MOM (Momentum)
    • BOP (Balance of Power)
    • CCI (Commodity Channel Index)
    • CMO (Chande Momentum Oscillator)
    • ROC (Rate Of Change)
    • ROCR (Rate Of Change Ratio)
    • AROONOSC (Aroon Oscillator)
    • MFI (Money Flow Index)
    • TRIX (Triple Smooth Exponential Moving Average)
    • DX (Directional Movement Index)
    • MINUSDI (Minus Directional Indicator)
    • PLUSDI (Plus Directional Indicator)
    • MINUSDM (Minus Directional Indicator Movement)
    • PLUSDM (Plus Directional Indicator Movement)
    • Midpoint
    • Midprice
    • TRANGE (True Range)
    • ATR (Average True Range)
    • NATR (Normalize Average True Range)
    • AD (Chaikin A/D Line)
    • OBV (On Balance Volume)
    • HTTRENDLINE (Hilbert Transform)
    • HTTRENDMODE (Hilbert Transform, Trend vs cycle Mode)
    • HTDCPERIOD (Hilbert Transform, Dominant Cycle Period)
    • HTDCPHASE (Hilbert Transform, Dominant Cycle Phase)
  • Interval - Time interval between two consecutive data points in the time series - 1min, 5min, 15min, 30min, 60min, daily, weekly, monthly.
  • Time Period - Number of data points used to calculate each moving average value.
  • Series Type - Price type in the time series - close, open, high, low. Only required for some indicators.

Access

Add from Manager

The Alpha Vantage Connector is available in the Connectors Manager in the top ribbon:
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Head over to the Finance Category and install Alpha Vantage:
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