Looking to you guys for some advice on excel. I haven't used Excel in years but did some Microsoft Office courses in school, which was quite some time ago now.
I'm currently learning to use Amibroker and am having a blast learning their AFL language.
Reason for looking for excel is that
A. Looking to keep a good digitial record of my trades and to possibly use this data for some analysis. Right now I write it in a journal I have since my brokers format can get a little confusing to sift through. Plus I like writing/typing it out. Makes me think a little about each trade after.
B. Some basic probability studies. Nothing fancy and from what I've found I can easily do some of the stuff I want to do in Excel. No backtesting really, I leave that to Amibroker.
C. Record keeping for some of my jobs I do on weekends. A friend and I are both electricians and have a little business. Time to start keeping better track of our projects.
So if I get Excel 2016, am I going to want to shoot myself with how different it is? Most guides and such that I've read work off the old Excel 2013. Is their any benefit of 2016? Maybe it runs better? I know 2013 has its limitations especially with any sort of large dataset. Most of what I've seen other traders do with Excel, their pushing the program to its limits.
Looking to you guys, I'm assuming theirs a good mix of full time traders and/or some part time traders like myself that maybe work in a office environment and are use to this software.
Thanks in advance for any post.
I'm currently learning to use Amibroker and am having a blast learning their AFL language.
Reason for looking for excel is that
A. Looking to keep a good digitial record of my trades and to possibly use this data for some analysis. Right now I write it in a journal I have since my brokers format can get a little confusing to sift through. Plus I like writing/typing it out. Makes me think a little about each trade after.
B. Some basic probability studies. Nothing fancy and from what I've found I can easily do some of the stuff I want to do in Excel. No backtesting really, I leave that to Amibroker.
C. Record keeping for some of my jobs I do on weekends. A friend and I are both electricians and have a little business. Time to start keeping better track of our projects.
So if I get Excel 2016, am I going to want to shoot myself with how different it is? Most guides and such that I've read work off the old Excel 2013. Is their any benefit of 2016? Maybe it runs better? I know 2013 has its limitations especially with any sort of large dataset. Most of what I've seen other traders do with Excel, their pushing the program to its limits.
Looking to you guys, I'm assuming theirs a good mix of full time traders and/or some part time traders like myself that maybe work in a office environment and are use to this software.
Thanks in advance for any post.
