Hear from the man who really didn’t have much time. Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch was diagnosed with cancer and was told that he only had 3-6 months to live. He chose to accept the fact and lived his remaining life to the fullest. He continued to inspire many through his “Last Lecture“. I was [...]

A good practice in trading is to look at charts in multiple timeframes. Longer timeframe charts tell us the longer term trend. Shorter timeframe charts are for our entries and exits. And if you are trading forex, you will need charts for different currencies and monitor their correlations etc. Do you also need a window [...]

This is another helpful tip for FX1 students. They also don’t teach this during the class (at least for my class). They want us to “learn to trade manually” first. I think it is more of “learn pattern recognition” more than “learn to trade”. Without this pending order feature, I would have given up long [...]

Why this post? This post is especially helpful for students of FX1 Academy. We were not taught how to set alerts during the class. Some who did not know how to do it has to stare at the charts to wait for the 0-1-2-3 (or a-b-c now) points to form. And my, they could take [...]

In my last post, I have discussed the most important Excel function when creating Excel-based applications for personalized backtesting and stock screening - the web query.

In this post, we shall look at the next most important Excel function - macros.
Macros has made Excel programming a lot simpler for me. Well, I cannot remember every [...]