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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Kriegsspiel » Tue Nov 27, 2012 6:35 pm

hoost wrote: snip
I ganked your spreadsheet man, thanks for all that work.  I was working on a spreadsheet but it was Barney-style compared to some of the majestic pieces you guys made.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by hoost » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:17 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote:
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I ganked your spreadsheet man, thanks for all that work.  I was working on a spreadsheet but it was Barney-style compared to some of the majestic pieces you guys made.
No worries.  I'm glad someone else was able to make sense of/use it.  It makes the effort more worthwhile.  If you have any questions on tweaking it, let me know.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Kriegsspiel » Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:57 pm

Yea, the part that blew my mind was that you could link to websites to update the cells.  I never knew you could do that.  I don't understand how it updates my bonds... that's pretty much black wizardry.  I did figure out how to update the Colorado gold table since I guess they changed the rows since you made that table.  Other than that, I pretty much kept it as is, except for deleting out the stuff I don't use.  I'll probably have to recheck that original shared one if I need to add that stuff back in... I think I deleted one of your really long formulae. 

I think the only thing I might add to it is something to calculate the duration of the bond ladders.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by frugal » Tue Dec 18, 2012 5:16 am

Hello,

where can I see daily variation of HBPP?

I would like to feel the flutuactions day by day in a chart.

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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Greg » Tue Dec 18, 2012 6:00 pm

A quick way to do this would be make a Google Finance Page and put a hypothetical $2500 in each of IAU, SHY, TLT, and VTI.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by frugal » Tue Dec 18, 2012 6:39 pm

yes GREAT

Can you only see ONE year chart?

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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Greg » Tue Dec 18, 2012 7:25 pm

Well you can either plot all 4 of the items and compare them against each other. This will at least show you percentage changes in the past year.

Or check the price one year ago and state that as your cost basis for each of the 4 items. That way you'll have the price appreciation of one year.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by frugal » Wed Dec 19, 2012 3:14 am

Yahoo Finance has longterm (+10years) charts for the similar My Portfolio?

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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Xtal » Sun Feb 24, 2013 3:58 pm

I just found this online: lovely way to track physical gold (and silver) coin purchases:

https://drive.google.com/previewtemplat ... ode=public#
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Kriegsspiel » Sat May 04, 2013 7:30 pm

hoost, is there a website where I can link a cell in the gold portion to the gold spot price?  I had been using Colorado gold, and tried to link it to Kitco's site but messed something up.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by hoost » Sun May 05, 2013 8:44 pm

Kriegsspiel wrote: hoost, is there a website where I can link a cell in the gold portion to the gold spot price?  I had been using Colorado gold, and tried to link it to Kitco's site but messed something up.
Here is the bid from APMEX:  =Index(ImportHTML("http://www.apmex.com","table",0),2,2)

I use colorado gold for the bid on coins.  This will give you the full table: =importhtml("http://www.coloradogold.com/selling.php",1,0)

To get an individual value from the table, use this (this is for 1 oz. gold eagle):  =index(importhtml("http://www.coloradogold.com/selling.php",1,0),2,2)

1 oz. Maple Leaf would be:  =index(importhtml("http://www.coloradogold.com/selling.php",1,0),8,2)

Is that what you're looking for?
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Kriegsspiel » Mon May 06, 2013 8:14 pm

=index(importhtml("http://www.kitco.com/market/",1,0),5,6)

That's the one I'm using to get the gold spot price, just for a consistent measure across the different coins/dealers one might use.  It wasn't working for a while so I thought I broke the internet, but it's working now.
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Post by Rezo » Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:35 am

Hi guys, just wanted to say thanks for putting up all the info for tracking so far and had a question. Fidelity recently updated it so that the old =IMPORTHTML for bond prices isn't pulling in the price anymore. Does anyone know another place to pull this info from and/or can write up a =IMPORTHTML formula please?
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by hoost » Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:20 am

I finally found a work around for the bond pricing issue.

This line pulls the price for 912810QU5:

=Index(importhtml("http://cxa.marketwatch.com/finra/BondCe ... ,"table",0),2,2)*10

This line pulls the price for 912810RC4:

=Index(importhtml("http://cxa.marketwatch.com/finra/BondCe ... ,"table",0),2,2)*10

To figure out the correct code for your particular bond, visit http://cxa.marketwatch.com/finra/BondCe ... EyODEwUVU1.

Enter your CUSIP in the text input and search for it.  Then change the code appropriately.  So "OTEyODEwUkM0" would be the thing to change in the first listed spreadsheet formula.

If anyone can either figure out the algorithm used to change cusips to the web address, or write a scipt to automate this, I'm sure it will be appreciated by all.

***EDIT***
The above is no longer working.

See the linked solution by fnord123:
http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/bo ... /#msg77539
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Jack Jones » Thu Dec 15, 2016 10:33 am

Is this still the most up-to-date Hoost-sheet?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc ... sp=sharing
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by escafandro » Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:51 pm

Hi, anyone have a link to track the gold spot price?
Because my link to apmex is broken.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Mr Vacuum » Mon Jun 19, 2017 6:59 pm

escafandro wrote:Hi, anyone have a link to track the gold spot price?
Because my link to apmex is broken.
=importxml("http://www.jmbullion.com/charts/gold-price/","//*[@id='gounce']")
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by TrevorShrade » Tue Jun 20, 2017 12:03 am

http://www.apmex.com/ no longer lists gold prices on their main page....You should be able to just change it out for http://www.apmex.com/category/10000/gold and It should start working again.


If not here is what i've been using:
=ImportXml("http://www.apmex.com/category/10000/gold","//tr[td='Gold']/td/span[@class='item-bid']")
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by Greg » Fri Jul 07, 2017 5:33 pm

I've been using these for tracking silver and gold prices.

=IF(1, ImportXml("http://services.packetizer.com/spotprices/?f=xml", "/SpotPrices/silver"), 18)

=IF(1, ImportXml("http://services.packetizer.com/spotprices/?f=xml", "/SpotPrices/gold"), 1300)
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by dualstow » Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:44 pm

Ah, I didn't see the June posts above when I was simultaneously posting in the Gold §.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6756&p=162145#p162145

I guess I need a new code for SPX (S&P 500), as I was using Apmex code.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by t-bear52 » Mon Aug 07, 2017 9:49 pm

Greg wrote:A quick way to do this would be make a Google Finance Page and put a hypothetical $2500 in each of IAU, SHY, TLT, and VTI.
And how do I get a chart from this portfolio? I know nothing about spread sheets. Over the years I've enjoyed checking: https://www.google.com/finance/chart?ch ... hy&tlf=12h every day. Now it is not working anymore.
I'm always interested in graphically seeing how the different elements relate on a daily basis.
So with a hypothetical portfolio, is there an easy way to see it graphically in a chart? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by distefam » Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:45 pm

I was using a spreadsheet in Apple's Numbers for a long time. I had columns for each asset class and rows for each portfolio of mine (IRA, Roth, etc.). I would add the current price of the ticker I held for each asset class and have my total row at the bottom multiply the number of shares I held by the current price to get the current value. Then, I'd color code the columns to show whether they were outside of my delta ranges for rebalancing. Personally, I like AlphaVantage for quotes, their API is free.

It worked pretty well but being a software engineer I started writing code to automate it. I was using it myself for some time but decided to clean it up for others. Check it out if you'd like at MyHoldings.io.
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by t-bear52 » Sat Feb 17, 2018 5:09 am

Thank you Sir!! :)
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by steve » Sat Feb 17, 2018 7:32 am

I made this sample for a friend last November 2017, You can download it and edit it for your own purposes and upload to your own google account.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing
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Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

Post by rwbil » Sun Feb 25, 2018 10:57 am

Steve,

Do you have long term data showing the performance over decade or more. If so can you share exactly what you used and how you obtained the data.
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