Does anyone know if it is possible to get the price of a stock using =googlefinance from a time stamp? Dates are fairly easy but it does not seem possible to do times on days? for example if I wanted to look at GOOG for 10:00AM 21/12/2020
=index(GOOGLEFINANCE("GOOG","price","21/12/2020 10:00:00"),2,2)
That provides the stock for that date but not the time. I am not sure if it's possible but it would be very useful in a sheet I am making.
Unfortunately, you can only retrieve the closing price of a particular day or days but not specific times.
When you pass a historical data as an argument, google assumes that you are looking for the closing price. Therefore, if you choose either "price" or "close" for a past data, you will get the same results.
The official documentation for the attribute "close":
"close" - The closing price for the specified date(s).
therefore getting the closing price of a particular time is not possible.
For example, this will return the price for each day, starting from 21st of December 2020 until 30 days later:
=GOOGLEFINANCE("GOOG","price","12/21/2020",30,1)
or this =GOOGLEFINANCE("GOOG","close","12/21/2020",30,1)
you see that the closing price time is fixed at 16:00:00.
If you want real time historical data you should look for other APIs that you may need to pay.
As an example, you can retrieve the prices at 13:xx:xx hs or 16:xx:xx hs by using regular expressions and QUERY:
=ARRAYFORMULA(QUERY(GOOGLEFINANCE("GOOG","price","12/22/2020",30,1), "SELECT * WHERE Col1 matches '.* 13:.*|.* 16:.*'", 0))
Or you can filter just one specific hour:
=ARRAYFORMULA(QUERY(GOOGLEFINANCE("GOOG","price","12/22/2020",30,1), "SELECT * WHERE Col1 matches '.* 13:.*'", 0))