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I'm sure many of you guys do some trick over stocks in spreadsheet. Full explanation: https://medium.com/automation-generation/manage-your-stocks-...
When I need an ad-hoc flexible internal tool, Google sheets is usually the first place I start building.
I can't believe I've never heard of alpaca before.
I can't believe I've never heard of alpaca before.
I was usually called in to debug these things. My approach was always super minimalist... How do I make the 1 change that will get this all back on its feet again? .... without looking at any of the VBA or the weird DLLs lurking in the shadows.
Having said all that - Google Sheets is actually a different beast. I still wouldn't trade through it. Also, I've been eyeing Alpaca for a while - I like what they're doing. Best of luck to them....
Trading driven from a spreadsheet brings back horrible memories of my earliest days on Wall Street. Excel was usually hacked in the most grotesque ways: tick data coming in, updating cells and signals and driving actual orders out the other end. Add to the fact that you're running on a desktop computer thats already struggling with a dozen other applications consuming market data, CPU cycles and driving 6 monitors...…
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