Quote Originally Posted by Misifus View Post
Well all I can say is that I am now ecstatic that I can download my retirement planning stocks & funds, etc., and then upload into Morningstar and the portfolio manager (all in Excel format .csv). It sure makes tracking and analyses a lot easier
.csv files can also be opened and then pasted into excel workbooks. Excel is a fun and addictive modeling tool with which you can see what is happening under the hood. It leads to harder tools such as mathcad, maple, and mathematica.

I will post some titles from my excel financial tools library later.

Not meant to be a knock but Google has free historical data for funds, etfs, and stocks which can be downloaded as .csv files for analysis. I am looking for historical options data and welcome leads.