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You're right, I tend to be a little early with all of my investments...but I also think that others tend to be a little late. When I see the risk/reward ratio tilt towards reward I don't hesitate. I feel that as long as I keep a long term (multi-year) perspective, entry points tend to be less...

Seeing an opportunity in Keurig Green Mountain GMCR. Added to an existing investment today on 6/25/15 at a price of $79.44 per share.

Yes I totally agree...there is a definite balance between automation and thought. In fact with markets, the two are diametrically opposed. Automation is meant to handle processes that are static and repetitive but the price discovery process is mostly dynamic and constantly changing. Until...

I almost...a few times...opened an account at IBKR specifically because I wanted to dig into their Excel tool but I learned a while ago that the type of investing that I am good at doesn't require a lot of automation. I'm pretty sure that if I played with the IBKR Excel feature for a day I...

Good point, code should work the way that it is supposed to but ultimately any code will have flaws because it is written by human beings. So in one aspect we should strive to write the best code that we can but alternatively we can also profit from implicit mispricing based on the false...

It's been my experience that part of the automation game is finding clever work arounds for software bugs and shortfalls. This is what makes a truly successful automation program so hard to come by. Even large instituitional clients suffer from this problem (Knight Capital and Nasdaq OMX)...

Under Excel Options > Advanced > General ...is the "Ignore other applications that use DDE" box checked?

I almost...a few times...opened an account at IBKR specifically because I wanted to dig into their Excel tool but I learned a while ago that the type of investing that I am good at doesn't require a lot of automation. That being said I have total respect and am in awe of people that can...

It has always been available in some form...before COM it used to be available through DDE. If I remember correctly you access it by clicking the export to Excel option on the watchlist tab. It's nice having the tape whizzing by in excel because instead of just watching it you can run real...

Let me know if you need any help automating your spreadsheets, I've been coding in MS Excel Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) for so long now that I can't remember the last time that I ran into something I couldn't automate. Some solutions I've developed in the past include custom...

Hey everybody, I've been reading all of your posts for years now ever since I began investing in 2007 and have learned so much from everyone that I think now it is only fair that I give back a little. About me...I've tried everything under the sun but what seems to work best for me is...