Here you can download free data of the S&P 500 from 1789 until today (for Excel, in format: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, etc.):


https://stooq.com/q/d/?s=%255Espx&c=0


write at the top left (in the box: Symbol np): ^SPX and then click on: Kwotuj

and then click at the bottom left on: Historical data

choose Interval: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, etc...

click at the bottom on: Download data in csv file

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/hPNyKdSD/S-P-storico.jpg[/img]

Thanks for sharing this resource!

Thank you. I thought most stock market indices were not created until the late 1800s. What do they use for pre-1800 data?

The tulip bubble occurred in 1637, where a few varieties of tulips were worth as much as a house:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

I believe the quotes were taken from the official data of the time.

Do you know what the website means by "official data"? I could not find an explanation on the website.

The website's “S&P 500” data begins in 1789. However, I checked and the S&P 500 index was created in 1957 and the Dow Jones index was created in 1885. The New York Stock Exchange was established in 1792, so the website must obtain their early data from somewhere else. Thank you!

Unfortunately I don't know where the Site has found the data of the S&P 500 since 1789.

If it may be useful to anyone, here you can download data in Down Jones' Metastock format from 1900 to 2002:

Down Jones 1900-2002: Metastock data for you (free) It is not as important to buy at the lowest possible price as it is to buy at the right time. (Jesse Livermore)

In the book: The Right Stock at the Right Time Prospering in the Coming Good Years by Larry Williams, are published some statistics from 1871 of the Index: S & P Composite Stock Price Index;
probably at that time this was the reference Index, and only later became the S & P 500.

Also on this page by legendary trader Dan Zanger, there is this chart showing that as early as 1870 there was a Stock Market Index that later became the S & P 500:

http://www.traderslog.com/the-10-key-differences-between-bull-and-bear-rallies

[img]https://i.postimg.cc/rm1JPYQ4/S-P-500-Secular-Cyclical-Bull-Bear.png[/img]

You can get the Indexes of the whole World, by writing in the box: Symbol np

DJI (Down Jones Industrial)

Nasdaq

FTSE (United Kingdom)

DAX (Germany)

FTSE MIB (Italy)

Nikkei (Japan)

Nifty (India)

etc...

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(Robert Orben)

With reference to post: #1:

before you click on the button: Download data in csv file,
you should click on: semicolon (at the bottom, where it says: Downloaded data separator: comma | semicolon) so you get the file: csv
with the columns already separated: Date, Open, High, etc...;

then, to quickly transform the csv file to Excel file (xls or xlsx), you can use this free service:

https://convertio.co/it/csv-xls/

https://convertio.co/it/csv-xlsx/

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At the bottom of this table (see image), it says:

"Performance back to 1950 incorporates the performance of predecessor index, the S&P 90"

so before the S&P 500 Index there was the S&P 90 Index (it probably only had 90 Stocks) and before that the Index
will have had a different composition and name.

https://postimg.cc/Fkh6cXJq