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    Excel non recognition/calculation of data in cells

    DDE's topping out at maybe 1000 fields can be a very low limit for stocks in practice. I understand RTS (RTD?) capabilities are not that much greater.
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    Beware the repair shop.

    Same applies to these discount tyre and exhaust centers. Usually they find that a car brought in for something else also has a faulty shock absorber. They take it off, clean it, replace it and then charge for a new part.
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    Front Running, Flash Orders, or Blackbox/Algorithmic Manipulation?

    As far as I can tell it must be the flash order that is used to pull the rest. Can it be done without flash orders whereby the first 100 shares hit can be used to trigger the pulling of the rest?
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    Front Running, Flash Orders, or Blackbox/Algorithmic Manipulation?

    Seems they use the flash order to trigger the pulling of the rest. The US markets are just regulator sanctioned electronic cheating pits - how long will it be before they act like casinos and race track bookmakers and quite simply refuse to fill orders for anyone known to make money. I am...
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    Multi-Monitor Vendors

    The ultimate in gauging is the furniture vendor who charges $1000 per for the upright pole you mount the monitors on specific for their desks. I kid you not, $1000 for a length of 1" steel pole.
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    Multi-Monitor Vendors

    Looks like a great deal, or more likely a realistic price reflecting true cost of production i.e. not a rip off. I have always wondered why multiple monitor stands are so expensive considering how simple they are and the basic materials they are made from.
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    Widescreen vs Square Monitors

    Up to 20.1" there seems to be reasobnable choice in square 1600x1200 monitors, but once you reach 21.3" it seems to be just NEC still in current production. If anyone knows different please say so. Above 21" they all seem to be widescreen, even high definition such as NEC's and Samsung244T...
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    Excel non recognition/calculation of data in cells

    dtrader98, that nailed it! Thanks for going to the trouble to create and post your explanation. thestudent. Thanks for input. Have used Excel professionally for 15 years and never come across this. Seems we are always learning with Excel.
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    Excel non recognition/calculation of data in cells

    Excel 2002 (!) File herewith. The columns that compute are ones where I have typed over the data in the stock close column. Need to press F9 to calculate.
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    Excel non recognition/calculation of data in cells

    Thanks to all for replies. If I "paste Special" from the web page I get the selection choices of: HTML, Unicode Text Text. The text option pastes in a way that pastes to excel as all 1 column (pasting to a text file and then importing is an option, albeit a tedious one). When I...
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    Excel non recognition/calculation of data in cells

    Yep that was it for example 1. I was tacking something onto alarge model I have not used for a while. Unfortunately example 2 seems not to be the same problem - its as if there was a function called "Paste numbers in form recognised as text" and I had it ticked. Numbers paste into cells and...
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    A move from XP to Windows 7, not so easy.

    Hi, while you're here, where does XP store emails ? - I think I knew once but can't remember where.
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    A move from XP to Windows 7, not so easy.

    I would have thought that when moving a box you could reinstall fairly painlessly and have XP recognise all the new components during installation - I plan to do this by upgrading to SP3 when I move boxes - anything wrong with this approach? As for Win 7 the question is : What will it allow...
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    Excel non recognition/calculation of data in cells

    Something strange is happening when I cut and paste tables or financial statements from web pages. The data or formula in the cell is showing up in the formula bar but is being ignored by excel formulas. Example 1. 1 Cut and paste financial stements into ecel from web page. Then try and...
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    Here's real verifiable proof 90% lose

    This is a valid point. some of those who are successful will not stay succssful. I can think of cases like these. In addition to losing the plot, edge, not adjusting, having something that worked in a time and place now gone etc the longer you stay in the market with leveraged positions the more...
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    Ouch...

    What, you mean you didn't effortlessly buy at the start and sell out within a few ticks of the high (or the high itself) like everyone else?. This is ET after all.
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    best books you've read on trading

    Marcel Link's High Probability Trading would be a good place to start if you are a complete newbie. Also Norden's book on Technical Analysis, not because it will tell you what works, but because it will help you understand what doesn't work (you could read it in the bookshop).
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    best books you've read on trading

    This summary on Amazon makes some good points: http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Professional-Betting-Robert-Bacon/product-reviews/B0006X5YLG/ref=sr_1_4_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 Funny how some of the best books on trading aren't about trading - another good non trading book is...
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    Any former drinkers who quit for good?

    You'll probably just waste the time some other way e.g. chasing pussy instead. That said, lost count of the number of times I have been sitting in one of those type of bars in Bangkok thinking why am I wasting my time with this stuff when I have a 13" long [multiple nested, IF...THEN] Excel...
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    Any former drinkers who quit for good?

    Stopped November 1989. PM me if you like.
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