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I'm having trouble figuring out exactly what you want to do, but below is a loop that will look at the value in column A, multiply it by 2, and put the result in column B. It will do this for the first 10 rows of the active sheet. For i = 1 To 10...

I work in a bank, but I'm no expert in credit. My gut feeling is that a bank would not go for this. The liquidity of your investments might actually work against you. The bank knows you can liquidate it at a moment's notice and skip town. Also, they know you might trade on margin and dig...

This is getting silly. I didn't "come to the conclusion that I wanted to cast doubt on candlesticks", whatever that means. In fact, it was the opposite--I was hoping I would find that bullish engulfing patterns were a contributing factor to a trading decision, and my test made me doubt that...

Exactly. If the doctor tells you take hemlock but the test rats you fed it to are dead, you might not want to take the hemlock. I haven't "proved" anything, nor did I make that claim--I only wanted to cast doubt on it for those with an open mind, and contribute to the original post.

Thanks, I agree that my idea of a downtrend might have been overly simplistic. I was examining thousands of data points, which seemed like a reasonable sample size. But if 15 days make a downtrend, then I would have at least captured some of those in my 3-day data. And that should have put me...

By "art" I think we are talking about "magic" again. I agree that there is complexity in trading, and you cannot rely on a single signal. But it seems like individual signals should at least show probability to behave one way or the other. Someone is next going to tell me that they use dice...

What was amazing to me is that the test didn't even show a 51% success rate. Even if the test was slightly flawed, there should have been some bias one way or the other. I confess that I have never grasped the "magic" element of trading. I read the technical definition of a bearish...

There just can't be that many holes in it--it was just too straightforward. You can keep your religion or magical dojis and dark clouds or you can repeat the experiment yourself, if you have the skills.

I lost faith in candlesticks one day when I decided to do a simple study that almost anyone could do on their own. I downloaded a large amount of historical daily data for various equities from Yahoo! Finance for the purpose of examining the Bullish Engulfing Pattern, specifically. I wrote a...

Thanks, EricP. This is very helpful.

I have a general U.S. tax question. In early 2000, I decided to be a "long-term investor" and bought a bunch of highly-touted tech stocks. I also made a pretty sizable investment in a stock I personally liked. The tech stocks crashed, but my personal pick did very well. 8 years later...