I would like to try my hand at seting up a spresdsheet for my stocks. This would consist of entering call premium and cost basis monthly. My broker does not break out cost basis. Any advise as to a free web based site I could do this at? This would be my first attempt at trying to use a spreadsheet. T.I.A.
Google spreadsheets aren’t as powerful as Excel, but are free and should be fine for your needs.
If “web based” is not necessary for you there is Open Office which is a full fledged office suite of apps akin to Microsoft Office. MS-Office is a bit more fully featured but not a lot and considering Open Office is legitimately free it is hard to beat. It includes a spreadsheet application which is better than the Google online version and only a little worse than Excel. For 98% of users it is more than sufficient. You’d have to be doing some pretty advanced stuff before Open Office would be insufficient.
It is also compatible with Office file formats so you can open Excel and Word documents and such.