“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchill Politics…ahh, it seems like wherever we turn, there’s someone talking about the upcoming US Presidential election. I live in Canada and still hear about it. For those who don’t know, that’s rare, as Canadians prefer to talk more about […]
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Connecting ThinkOrSwim to Excel-Part 3 of 4
Written and contributed by Rich Kaczmarek Part 2 explained Excel’s RTD function and how it interacted with ThinkOrSwim (TOS). Excel’s UPPER function was introduced, we indirectly referenced a symbol and a ThinkOrSwim directive, and you learned a clever way to copy equations to new cells so Excel would modify just the parts you wanted modified […]
Focus on process
Focus on process, focus on process, focus on process – John Locke It can’t get any clearer than that, can’t it? If you haven’t seen John Locke’s weekly webinar on Feb. 19th, please do. Your portfolio will thank you. I got a lot out of it and think you will too. Here’s the gist of […]
Connecting ThinkOrSwim to Excel-Part 2 of 4
Written and contributed by Rich Kaczmarek The last article covered some DDE versus RTD technobabble and left you with an example of how to use RTD in Excel to get the last price of RUT from ThinkOrSwim (TOS). Not bad for a day’s work but let’s take it to the next level. Before we begin, […]
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo…
Paper or plastic? Boxers or briefs? Window or aisle? With ice or without? Weekly or monthly? What? If you are an M3 trader you get it. Let’s leave those other ones out and just tackle this one. So, which one to choose to hedge the butterfly in the M3 trade? The original M3 program uses […]
Connecting ThinkOrSwim to Excel-Part 1 of 4
Written and contributed by Rich Kaczmarek You can’t beat a spreadsheet for turning big chunks of data into actionable information. Without some experience in programming, however, it isn’t always the easiest way to manipulate real-time data. Let’s write (get it?) that wrong! It is easy to have ThinkOrSwim (TOS) stream live data into Excel but it’s […]