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Thom Hartle

This table is from Microsoft's Excel Help file for Reference Operators. It lists three Reference Operators.

Reference operatorMeaningExample: (colon)Range operator, which produces one reference… more
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In CQG Desktop or CQG One, you can write custom formulas for monitoring risk and account status using the "account." prefix. These formulas can be used to create custom columns or filters in the… more

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In legacy Excel if a function required the data to be returned to be an array then you had to press Ctrl + Shift + Enter following entering the function. You would see curly brackets surrounding… more

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The Double Dash Operator (--) is formally known as the double unary operator. It is used in Excel to convert non-numeric data like TRUE/FALSE statements or text-based numbers into actual integers… more

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This post details a macro-enabled Excel Dashboard for monitoring Soybeans, Soybean Meal, and Soybean Oil contracts. The macro is a feature for managing the price axis on the charts. Excel may use… more

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If Microsoft Excel is an app that you utilize for building market screening dashboards then you might periodically require updating the symbols used in the dashboards. For example, using an Excel… more

This post is another example of using Excel functions and RTD calls to screen a large portfolio. The sample dashboard tracks the holdings of the NASDAQ 100® Index (as of 8/02/2026). The screening… more

This post is another example of using Excel functions and RTD calls to screen a large portfolio. The sample dashboard is the holdings of the S&P 500® Index (as of 7/20/2026). The screening is… more

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This post details an Excel dashboard for measuring the Z-Score of stocks from the NASDAQ 100. The dashboard sets the parameters as user defined inputs for the time frame, the average lookback… more

Thom Hartle

Excel has some very useful functions for screening market performance data and filtering large amounts of data to highlight particular user defined results for further analysis.

This post… more