Spreadsheets of prices instead of charts?

Quote from Bombardier:

Interesting perspective, schulzey. I did this many years back with daily prices, when the WSJ still printed the market data tables toward the end of every edition. I'd tear them out and compare the prices from the previous days, to find big movers. It was slow at first, but over time I was quite trained to read the tables very fast. I scanned through the unusual volumes in combination with large price movements. With this method I could find entries near the lows of multibaggers, then ride their trend and keep adding up to winning positions. The losers I'd dump very fast. Made some good money with it. Works best if you have had a stable uptrend in the past 6 months.
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Many years ago I would use the stock tables to update my hand-drawn charts. I kept the stock tables in a stack in my closet for historical data. My how times have changed.
 
Quote from themickey:

From my experience, spreadsheets are OK for formula work, but will get overloaded with realtime data constantly being loaded to them.
I once did an exercise where I used to download a days worth of data for one stock and then ran a formula through it to come up with some calcs. After a couple of hundred rows of data, it would take forever to calculate.
So I've come to the conclusion using it for realtime data would have limitations regarding speed.
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Right. when was this 1981?

I'd say the programmer was slow witted, not the program.

Yes, 4 sure.
 
Quote from schulzey:

Hi there,
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I believe our right and left brains analyze things very differently and it seems to me that looking at charts to make decisions does so in a vey right brain picture oriented sort of way. I'd be curious to trade using only open, high, low, and close prices for 5 min, 10 min, etc time frames using tables of prices instead of charts. I believe using numbers instead of charts would focus on the left brain which is more logical and rational and maybe would force to make better decisions.

I am currently quite successful trading but I am always looking for a new way to look at things or an edge.
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I think this is a very good idea. I like to use IB's TWS, which essentially looks like a spreadsheet. I find it very useful to put up all the futures and indices I track and just look at the numbers. While I look at charts for system ideas and to check things from time to time, I today mainly look at T&S when trading.
 
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