The RTD Function belongs to the Excel Lookup and Reference category Functions List of the most important Excel functions for financial analysts. This cheat sheet covers 100s of functions that are critical to know as an Excel analyst. The function will retrieve real time data from a program that supports COM automation. The RTD Function belongs to the Excel Lookup and Reference category Functions List of the most important Excel functions for financial analysts. This cheat sheet covers 100s of functions that are critical to know as an Excel analyst. The function will retrieve real time data from a program that supports COM automation. ThinkOrSwim Data Export Fields. In the last article, you found that there were RTD parameters passed from Excel to ThinkOrSwim (TOS), the 3 rd parameter was something TOS had to return and the 4 th parameter was the symbol for which it was to return that something. (=RTD”TOS.RTD”, “LAST”,”RUT”), for example, returns the last price of RUT.).
Aug 05, 2016 RTD function for Excel for MAC 2016. There is no such facility in Excel for Mac. So, the bottom line is that you can NOT get this created or downloaded to work on Mac Excel. Did this solve your problem? Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for marking this as the answer.
CQG Integrated Client version 8.4 supports RealTimeData for sending data and other market information to Microsoft Excel®. This feature opens up many opportunities for creating custom displays and other ways to better manage your workflow. One consideration to keep in mind is that Excel has a throttle that manages how often it updates. You can set this throttle to whatever update rate you want. From a Microsoft FAQ, here are the steps to set the throttle to continuously update.
To set the throttle interval higher using the Excel object model:
Source: Microsoft. Real-Time Data: Frequently Asked Questions. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140060(office.10).aspx
To learn more about configuring the RTD throttle interval in Excel, visit the MSDN Real-Time Data: Frequently Asked Questions web page.
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You can’t beat a spreadsheet for turning big chunks of data into actionable information. Without some experience in programming, however, it isn’t always the easiest way to manipulate real-time data.
Let’s write (get it?) that wrong! It is easy to have ThinkOrSwim (TOS) stream live data into Excel but it’s not well-documented. (There’s a harder way, too, that’s not well-documented. You’ll get an overview of both, you crazy kids, but we’ll focus on the easier.) So, let’s go through a few explanations, show you how to connect the two programs and give a couple examples to get you on your way.
Why would you want to know how to do this stuff? Because you probably have a couple of ideas or questions swimming around. If you’ve got imagination and take a little time to learn, you can create a real-time model in Excel that proves (or disproves) your hypothesis or gives you answers.
And it’s fun.
On with the show!
Grab some coffee and stay awake!
Let’s slog through some technical explanations. I’ll try to make it as painless as possible BUT if you can learn to understand the difference between a Call and Put, you’re certainly able to understand the difference between DDE and RTD.
If you don’t drink coffee and couldn’t care less about technical details, jump to the next section and wait for us there.
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DDE and RTD are two different mechanisms that allow Excel to talk with the outside world. Specifically, DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) is an older technology that links Microsoft products and RTD (Real-Time Data) retrieves real-time data from a program that supports COM automation but there’s overlap for what we’re trying to do.
(I know. You’re thinking, “Where can I read more about this exciting stuff?!?!” Slow down, Turbo; you can visit https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140061(office.10).aspxafter reading the rest of this article.)
Which method is better? Well, as with all things technological, the answer is “it depends.” (This iswhen most sane people throw up their arms in exasperation with most technology people. But stick with me.)
Both are kind of real-time. DDE refreshes an Excel cell when TOS updates its data; this is known as “interrupt driven.” RTD is interrupt driven, too, but Excel isn’t interrupted by TOS changing data; the interrupt comes from a clock timer, and the timer can be changed.
You can imagine that DDE may get updated faster than RTD because TOS data may change before the clock timer goes off. Is that bad? Not really if you consider we’re talking about milliseconds.
Two more items you should know:
What’s the conclusion? DDE may be technically faster but, for simplicity and user-level flexibility, RTD is the way to go. We’re big easy fans so let’s get moving with RTD.
In the previous section I talked about my old friends, cells B2 and G2, so we’ll use them in our example.
Step 1: Run ThinkOrSwim. (Get itat https://mediaserver.thinkorswim.com/installer/install.html.)
Step 2: After ThinkOrSwim is running, run Excel. (We use Excel 2016 for Windows but this works in Excel 2007, too. No guarantees for any other operating system or any other spreadsheet program.)
Step 3: To keep it all straight in our head, let’s create some headers. Make cells B2 and G2 in your spreadsheet look like this:
Step 4: In cell B2 (under Symbol), type RUT.
Step 5: Ready for the magic of RTD? Paste the following into cell G2 (under LAST):
=RTD(“TOS.RTD”,”LAST”,B2)
Feel free to type it in yourself if you don’t want to copy & paste, but make sure you don’t forget the 2 commas between “TOS.RTD” and “LAST”; don’t forget the double quotes; LAST must be capitalized and remember to press the <Enter> key to accept the equation (and leave cell G2).
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If you entered everything correctly, your spreadsheet should look something like this:
The number may not match because we’re looking at RUT on different days and times. Other than that – CONGRATULATIONS! What you see is TOS is giving Excel live data, the last price paid for RUT.
Now change RUT to SPX in B2 to get the last price for SPX. It worked? You’re a superstar!
Good enough for now. Experiment a little, then save this workbook as LockeRTD. Next week we’ll build on top of what you did today, make Excel do more work than you, and delve into derivatives.
Thinkorswim Rtd Commands
(By the way, if you have about 30 seconds and would like to view ThinkOrSwim’s documentation on RTD, click here.)
Connecting Thinkorswim To Excel
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