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Willy, well done, good work !
There's no end of spruikers selling secret-sauce that really amounts to not much more than a series of simple filters followed by some judicious eyeballs. The 'moat' that lets them charge so much is their automation. They claim it's not practical for you to trawl through several thousand stocks doing a series of simple calculations on each one. They're relying on people not having the ability to provide their own simple automation. Well done you for bridging their moat !
In my opinion a better place to do this is a Google Spreadsheet rather than Excel. Google can get data from Yahoo, plus also from Google Finance. And you can write server-side javascripts to send you alerts and all sorts of things. Additionally, you can query your spreadsheet using SQL and insert the results, live-linked, into another spreadsheet.
All updating in near-realtime, while your computer is turned off and you're laying on a beach somewhere getting the occasional update via your smartphone, then looking at the detail with Google Docs on your mobile device.
(Google does impose some limits on how many external data sources you can have, but that's easy enough to get around with scripting)
Thanks waimate01,
I really was surprised that I could not find something similar posted somewhere on the net. I didn't even think of using a Google spread sheet, nice idea, I agree 100% with you that it would be a better option to use java than the VBA that excel uses. I really do dislike VBA I call it "coding for morons"