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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
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- Subject: Re: final calc help
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 17:51:24 GMT
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- Christopher Baker (yogi@crl.com) wrote:
- : I am trying to keep track of my stocks and I would like to have the
- : bottom line stuff sepeate from the rest. My probelm is the fact they
- : chage daily and I would like to have a forumla. What I want to do is I
- : want to enter the date, how much the stock changed, the gain/loss, the
- : closing price, gain/loss %.
- :
- : I have that in a differnt part of the sheet. IN my bottom section, I
- : would like to have all the formulas so as I enter the data it changes and
- : reflects the change, Ok, I can put a formula in this one cell and say '=e17'
- : it will read that cell, but I would like it to change as I enter the data in,
- : I would like it to be like '=e17:e60' and have that change box in my
- : bottom reflect the change on a day to day basis.
- :
- Just on a daily basis? Not over a period of time? For starters,
- your '=e17:e60' "formula" says nothing at all to the program. The = tells
- the computer to perform the following function on the following data,
- then you provide the data with no function intervening. As for following
- _both_ the closing price _and_ the change, why enter that yourself when
- the computer can figure one out when given the other?
- Possible solutions include complicated formulas and brute force.
- Let's try brute force. You have twenty stocks to follow on a daily basis.
- Seems painfully short-term for me, but I'm sure you have your reasons.
- Enter the names of the stocks to be tracked in A2:A21 then the latest
- quote in B2:B21. Tomorrow enter the latest quote in C2:C21. Add formulas
- in columns D, E, F and G to extract information from the numbers in
- columns B and C. D might be '=C2-B2' to provide growth while E might be
- '=D2/B2' to indicate percentage of growth. (just put your formula in row
- 2, then Copy it and Paste it to all other rows) Next day, Cut column B
- and Insert a new column C - the formulas will still work. (I have not
- tried this in Final Calc, it works elsewhere) If you are following less
- than a dozen stocks you can change the perspective and have your totals
- on the bottom. You could also maintain a database of two weeks worth of
- numbers on one screen, tracking Daily Change, Weekly Change, and
- Bi-Monthly Change.
-
- : I have tried to do a formula roam, and then a paste of the range. It wont
- : work.
-
- Formula "roam"? Ah! Checked the Index. Doesn't look at all like it
- will help you automate your creation. Does look like it's an interactive
- tool.
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-