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Anyone know of a Excel Add in or tool that would allow downloading of other non price data fields such as float or shares short into an excel spreadsheet? I need to download the data in a column next to the ticker. Gummy's spreadsheet will do exactly this with a small number but crashes if...

I agree outstanding and float are not the same thing but I am hinting at something else. I feel that there are a few things that the author does not really understand.

Chosingkum, I can't agree with you, but you are right in that you have to make a decision as to whether the published number is accurate and what adjustments you have to make.

taowave, yes and no.

Yes, but not exactly as described by Steve Woods. You have to understand why multiple float turnovers occurr and what the real float is.

...........by himself.

Already done. It's called retail Forex

If you look at your big losses you will see that you did something you do not do with your small winners. With your huge losers you held on doggedly through corrections and just rode the trend, the one going against you. You might even have added to your position. Doing it the right way round is...

HF Managers getting out ahead of the collapse in returns from overcapacity, Wall St feeding the quacking ducks. Same as any industry. Wall street needs another group of 'one stock to retire on' concept stocks to be the next public mania stocks. Internet boom was years ago and commodities story...

Yes, can be. Frequently what looks like manipulation is just the collective conscience of the market dancing the same steps a manipulator would. Then again, that could all be upset by a Pension fund having an investment policy meeting. In terms of making money, which is more predictable...

You have to look at smaller stuff that is small enough for *someone* to be able to mop up the free float. S&P stocks are way too large for that. I tend to regard technical patterns in larger institutionally driven stocks as randomly formed. Try NASDAQ under USD 5-10 with float under 25m. Avoid...

Amazes me how these fools at the prop shops in Chicago and on the quant desks at Goldman bust their butts working 18 hour days when all they have to do is buy on the green and sell on the red. Talk about overcomplicating things.

Quotetracker with a compatible feed carrying the data e.g. eSignal but my experience with eSignal Asian data was NOT positive - gaps were more likely to be from data errors.

In practice it is more likely that a HF will close the fund and open another new one to circumvent HWM agreement.

You will always have problems with all retail brokers and data vendors because they have a small amount of money per user to provide service for lots of low value high turnover clients. The institutional model by comparison is low/zero turnover of high fee/high value clients with multiple...

Asian FX session is charactarised by Japanese banks filling exporters orders in an orderly fashion.

They must have drowned in all that global interbank liquidity they think they are frolicking in.

Total bollox

Less empirically but equally revealing, get hold of a 50 year old newspaper and look at how many names you recognise on the stock page. IMHO Fool are just that. They make such a big deal about picking a handful of stocks that doubled - like all of these newsletter gurus. I am respectful of their...

If this is what happened then the only thing I can think of is that you were interviewed by some very junior people. This suggests it was an initial screen rather than the final short list interviews. People senior enough to actually hire are also senior enough not to act as you describe. If...