MACD

The following excel file is an example of how to calculate the MACD indicator. This example shows the 5, 13, 6, setting. the MACD is in column N.  Over time I may add more excel indicator examples. As I do they will be most easily found in the right sidebar under the “How to” –

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Excel question

This post answers the following question.

“I have recently been trying to chart historical data in Excel in a bar chart format and found the “canned” graph allows only for high, low, and close, but not the open.  Do you have a simple way to add the open tick to a bar chart in

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How to post your ATS trades in twitter using Excel

As an example, the following Excel script can be used to post your automated trading system trades into twitter via API.  This code can easily be changed to do whatever you want. But in this example it will just be for sending a trade.

Sub TWITTER()
Dim symbol As String
Dim Price As String
Dim xml, Username,

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Microsoft Excel as a Trading Platform

In this article I discuss the pros and cons of Excel as a trading platform.

A little History

Over the last 16 years of trading, I have used a lot of trading platforms: broker platforms, third party vendor platforms and small applications written by private programmers. One thing all these platforms have had in common is that

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