Recent content by Tun

Interesting you say that, I get a similar thing. The majority of my time is spent learning, creating, improving. When I'm not at work I'm either reading, learning something about computing, programming a new app, reading about trading, exercising. I do all of these things enthusiastically...

Phew, a lot of interesting replies there. I'll be here all day if I replied to them as fully as I'd like. Being relatively new to the I.T. business it's good to get a take on the story of people that've been in the business a lot longer than myself. I'll hopefully remember it at the approriate...

Ex I.T. workers I'm curious. How many of you/us are ex I.T. workers or are to some extent still employed in that line of business ? I've just noticed a lot of references to I.T. inclined people in a variety of places on this site. Amongst other things peoples profiles, technical...

Can I throw the cat amongst the pigeons here and suggest python ? :) It's modern language and comparatively easy to learn use the main drawback is that it's not the fastest language around. C++/C# and Java will put you on a learning curve lasting a good few months hard work to get into and...

Sorry to have to state the obvious but it has to be asked. Have you tried a cut and paste from word to excel? If you have, what went wrong/why does it fail ?

I hate to moralise or make somebody else decisions for them but you need to ask yourself a lot of questions. If I go this route what's the worst place I could end up ? Where is it likely to lead me ? What alternatives have I got ? I keep on reading over and over one key attributes of a trader...

Cheers, if I need to get into the VBA more I'll have a look. Just out of interest (I know I should google for this but I'm here now ;) ) where do people get their raw data from to put into Excel ? I know there's yahoo finance, and possibly something on bigcharts, I'm just looking for other...

Just to add a little bit to this thread. Running the programs mentioned is definitely a good idea. But running these programs is a remedy, whereas you should be looking towards prevention. In almost all cases you could've prevented the nasty things (that the spyware/adware removal tool...

Re: IQLink Macro No need to apologise. In fact cheers for the info :) My VBA knowledge is amateur to say the least. My VBA background consists a skim read of an "In a Nutshell book" and a fair bit of googling everytime I need to write a script, so I'm prone to "bad practice". It wasn't...

If I was you I'd be using Excel VBA Macros for this. Shout if I'm talking jargon I've no idea what you do/don't know. The answer below won't be what you need but hopefully it's a step in the right direction. If I get more details about what's required I can give a more accurate answer. For...

No worries, I didn't think you were. I'd prefer somebody put me off slightly that encourage me into something unprepared. For me you don't have to worry about what you're saying if it's what you believe. You've shown me a few things I definitely need to be aware of that I might've been caught...

Chump. I'm beginning to see now how my original thoughts for this are way off. I'm going back to the drawing board. A 20 point stop on a stock that has 60 point daily movement plain won't work. I need to be able to place stops that are only going to be taken if the price makes a definite move...

The misunderstanding probably comes down to me being new to all this, but cheers for being polite about it ;) I'm fine with all this I think I get you, I'll try and use an example to clear it up Say for example a share is trading at 408.5 so the spreadbetting company offers 406.4/410.4(These...

That's fair enough :) You were right to pick me up on it, it needed clarification. Like a lot of things computing theres no hard and fast rule you can apply to everybody. Different systems and users require different solutions, even then a solution is inevitably a trade off of competing...

Sorry about that, my comment seems to have lost something in the brain to screen transition :) My post was getting a lot longer than I intended and I rushed to finish it. That one has slipped through the net (pun intended). It's definitely not pointless, I've seen huge speed gains in a...