Dynamic Excel DDE link to TOS (ThinkOrSwim)
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Thanks so much! Sorry it took so long, but I didn't get an email to say you had responded.
How about a curveball? A routine that sends an email/text when a specified cell gets to a certain number.
I monitor certain Butterflys and Condors based on the deltas of the entire position.
So, day the short calls/put and long calls/puts and posibly an outmonth long call are all added up and they reach greater than 16 or less than -16 it triggers an email to sms alert.
You can do Delta alerts in TOS (when they are working), but complex position delta monitoring is out.
How about a curveball? A routine that sends an email/text when a specified cell gets to a certain number.
I monitor certain Butterflys and Condors based on the deltas of the entire position.
So, day the short calls/put and long calls/puts and posibly an outmonth long call are all added up and they reach greater than 16 or less than -16 it triggers an email to sms alert.
You can do Delta alerts in TOS (when they are working), but complex position delta monitoring is out.
It's a windows issue:
From another website, you have to run excel in admin mode:
a) In Vista or Windows 7, type "Excel.exe" in the "search programs and files" box in the start menu. An Excel icon will appear in the list, right button on it and select "Run as administrator".
b) Locate where Excel.exe is on your C drive and create an icon for it on the desktop. You may have to search for it on your C drive, the locations are different depending on where Office was installed, or by following step (a) select "Send to", and "Desktop - create shortcut". then you can right button select the icon from your desktop and choose "Run as administrator".
OR
2. Uninstall the Windows update that caused this problem. This isnt recommended, but you can go into Windows Update, click on "View Update History" then "Installed Updates", find the following updates in the list and uninstall them. The two updates I have found so far that each can create this problem are
KB2778930 and
KB2778344
Once you unselect them from the next windows update I believe it wont re-install these.
Microsoft will probably release future updates that cause this problem again, so in the long run we are going to lose this method of fixing it.
From another website, you have to run excel in admin mode:
a) In Vista or Windows 7, type "Excel.exe" in the "search programs and files" box in the start menu. An Excel icon will appear in the list, right button on it and select "Run as administrator".
b) Locate where Excel.exe is on your C drive and create an icon for it on the desktop. You may have to search for it on your C drive, the locations are different depending on where Office was installed, or by following step (a) select "Send to", and "Desktop - create shortcut". then you can right button select the icon from your desktop and choose "Run as administrator".
OR
2. Uninstall the Windows update that caused this problem. This isnt recommended, but you can go into Windows Update, click on "View Update History" then "Installed Updates", find the following updates in the list and uninstall them. The two updates I have found so far that each can create this problem are
KB2778930 and
KB2778344
Once you unselect them from the next windows update I believe it wont re-install these.
Microsoft will probably release future updates that cause this problem again, so in the long run we are going to lose this method of fixing it.
I have a basket trading spreadsheet that needs to be updated by 9:32 am. The DDE conversion takes too long, but I found a work around and I thought if anyone else was having the same issues, this can be helpful.
Application.Calculation = xlManual
'code here
Application.Calculation = xlAutomatic
With each cell that is converted to a DDE, excel will wait for TOS to update the values before moving onto the next cell, this will fix that issue.
Application.Calculation = xlManual
'code here
Application.Calculation = xlAutomatic
With each cell that is converted to a DDE, excel will wait for TOS to update the values before moving onto the next cell, this will fix that issue.
That is a good workaround so if price comes in from DDE, it will not do a force recalc of all the cells, another way to do it would be to put the prices in cell X with a DDE call , let DDe bring in latest price, then do a cut and paste in another cell of just the value (ex. last price of IBM) and delete the DDe link. With the DDE severed the worksheet becomes static until you paste the DDE formula again for a new update. Hope this helps.
My DDE link still doesn't work. Removed all the windows update, ran excel as administrator but when I copy paste option chain into excel, excel just freezes.