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Hi Daniel
With Metastock being a "cash cow" business (as the MBA's describe it) ... no
investment and milk it till it dies, Excel continues to look like the only
way to go.
It looks like all of the "charting" software companies have totally run out
of ideas as to where the next big direction will go. Once the rush to
day-trading (i.e., shorter time frames) is over ... they're dead in the
water.
Re: Quotes Plus ... even though I don't use it ... John Fritch at
http://home.earthlink.net/~jfritch/
sent me an email that his large workbook posted at the site is only part of
a much larger workbook that he has for QuotesPlus. He'll respond directly to
your questions.
Once memory settles down in price P3-450's etc. should be down to
Celeron prices and with gig chips on the horizon all that you mention will
be possible.
If I don't learn to program, I'm going to get left in the dust ... because I
can't count of the charting companies to bail me out.
Best regards
Walter
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel Martinez
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: Excel 2000 VBa book
I just got "Microsoft Excel 2000 Power Programming with VBa" and "'Special'
Edition Using Excel 2000". Both are about 1,000 pages and have a CD-ROM. I
recommend both. I think with the first book I'll pretty much be able to
program whatever I wish into Excel, if I ever actually finish it. One
problem is that it won't show you how to directly access the Quotes-Plus2
database or BMI/eSignal RT datafeed. I don't really want to get into MSFT
VC++ or VB programming since it would probably take forever to produce any
meaningful results.
For those of you who don't know, if you subscribe to BMI via cable, you
would be able to get unlimited tickers. BMI sends all of the tickers at
once via cable. Right now the only way I know how to get BMI data into
Excel is via a DDE link. This limits the number of tickers, I believe. If
you could tap into the BMI feed directly in Excel, you could theoretically
track every single ticker on Nasdaq and NYSE. You could then set up a page
which would consist of alerts. Of course, you would need a fairly powerful
computer to do this. You would need something on the order of a Pentium III
500 (or greater) with 256 MB's of memory (or more). Nevertheless, think of
the possibilities for profit this setup would create, even if you only
caught a piece of the movement in a stock. The profit potential would be
nothing less than incredible.
Daniel.
Walter Lake wrote:
Hi Guy
A VB baby?? ... Right ... you're installing Visual Studio Professional and
I'm struggling away with the "plain vanilla" VB standard version. The "Black
Book" sounds interesting however, will have to check it out.
Am totally amazed at the UserForms that can be created using VBA in Excel.
They are so easy to make and add "stuff" too ... I can even use non-standard
colours like "purple" now that I found the colour codes and the colour
palette in the properties section for each UserForm.
Hope that you get unblocked soon. I've heard about those nasty "blocks" that
the old guys at the home develop.
Best regards
Walter
----- Original Message -----
From: Guy Tann
To:
Sent: Friday, September 24, 1999 8:42 PM
Subject: VB 6.0 book @ CostCo
| Walter
|
| Found the Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 (Microsoft Press $59.99)
| for $28.99 at the local Costco. They had the Wrox book as well I think
(it
| was cheaper, but I don't remember the exact price). I was too cheap to
buy
| both as I already have the Visual Basic 6.0 Black Book which seems to make
| more sense to me as a programmer. It's more of a 'how do I do this task'
| type book. If you want to perform a specific task, they have the code to
do
| it. I'm hoping that between the two, I'll have all the information I need
| to get started.
|
| I'm a VB baby as I've programmed for almost 40 years in probably 10 or
more
| different languages, but I have never used VB. Will install Visual Studio
| Professional this weekend and get to work. For some reason, I have a
mental
| block in getting started with VB, and always retreat to something I know
| like Clipper or using Metastock.
|
| Regards,
|
| Guy Tann
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