Live Gold Spot Price in Excel

Get gold spot prices in Excel with a live connection to the web. Import the open, bid, ask and previous closes prices, updating regularly.

Bulk Historical FX Rate Downloader

This free Excel spreadsheet downloads multiple FX rate histories from a web service. You can then plot and analyze the exchange rate data, and backtest your trading strategies with Excel’s broad suite of tools and functions.

WTI Oil Price History in Excel

Historical crude

Automatically download historical prices for West Texas Intermediate crude oil into Excel. Once in Excel, you can analyze, visualize and back-test the data.

Financial Modeling by Simon Benninga

Financial Modeling Beninnga

I’d heard good things about this book from my friends – they’d remarked that this booked helped them to translate financial modelling theory into practice. 

Real-Time Forex Rates in Excel

Get real-time live foreign exchange rates in Excel with this free spreadsheet. The quotes are delayed by about 15 or 20 minutes but are updated every minute or so.

Google Finance Stock Quotes in Excel

Download historical stock quotes from Google Finance straight into Excel with this free spreadsheet. Everything is automated with some clever VBA (which you can view and extend.)