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Hello august body of computer literate traders,
This is a bit off topic, but I find my daily trading opportunities
using Excel as a market scanner; In the evening, I use Amibroker to
calculate several price targets for tomorrow; when a stock crosses
those price targets, that is a trigger to consider a trade. My goal
is to get real time or 20 minute delayed price and volume data for
5000 stocks in Excel in 5 minutes.
I think you can see the power of this technique. I am looking at what
is moving in market today instead of preselecting a watchlist of
stocks based on yesterday's price movement.
Another benefit of having the market in a spreadsheet is that market
breadth indicator are very easy to calculate.
My question revolves around getting 20 minute delayed or RT price
into Excel from a data service.
I've tried several products I found using google on the web.
The fastest product I've found to get data into Excel is from
www.esquotes.com; it drawback is that it only uses Yahoo quotes.
Also, emails to the developer bounced. But it is fast enough for my
purposes and it works for now. It will populate a spreadsheet of 5000
stocks with price and volume data in about 5 minutes. (You have to
write a loop to fetch 300 symbols at a time to get this performance.)
A second product I tried is from www.quotein.com. It works with a
variety of servers, free and fee based RT, but it is SLOW. (As with
esquotes, I used a looping technique to fetch 100-500 tickers at a
time).
Another product is www.analyzerxl.com. I did not investigate this
product very thoroughly because inputing a large watchlist is
clumbersome.
So does anyone know of other fast stock interfaces for Excel? I don't
want to cut and paste a .csv file in to Excel. I want the price data
in an Excel spreadsheet cell. I think the MSFT buzzwords for this
type of software function are DDE and RTD; the only thing I know
about DDE and RTD right now is how to spell them.
Regards,
downhillspeedster
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