The following are the settings that I recommend for using Excel for live trading and/or running my files such as simulator.xls etc.
- Disable Auto recover by selecting Tools>Options and selecting the “Save” tab. Uncheck “Save AutoRecover info every:”. Instead make it a practice to always save backups of your trading files anytime you make changes.
- Once your file is complete and you are ready to trade, disable error checking by selecting Tools>Options and selecting the “error checking” tab. Uncheck “Enable background error checking”.
- Disable Macro Security, by selecting Tools>Macro>Security and setting it to low. If you are going to download excel files off the internet from untrusted sources, you will want to temporarily re enable macro security.
- As previously posted, I would not suggest using Vista/2007 unless you have a newer computer with extremely fast processor.
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