From ral16763 at bigpond.net.au Sat Aug 5 15:56:45 2017 From: ral16763 at bigpond.net.au (Robert Aldridge) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2017 15:56:45 +1000 Subject: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement Message-ID: <000501d30daf$9e7964b0$db6c2e10$@bigpond.net.au> Does anyone on this list know the formula to enter into excel to the find the correct price movement percentage?. I need a formula so if the price shortens one would enter the longest price first, and the reverse if the lengthens. So what I need is a formula that I can enter into excel so I just have to enter the two prices to get the price movement as a percentage. Regards, Robert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From conceptracing at bigpond.com Sun Aug 6 19:29:12 2017 From: conceptracing at bigpond.com (Ken Blake) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 17:29:12 +0800 Subject: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement In-Reply-To: <000501d30daf$9e7964b0$db6c2e10$@bigpond.net.au> References: <000501d30daf$9e7964b0$db6c2e10$@bigpond.net.au> Message-ID: <000c01d30e96$77729e80$6657db80$@bigpond.com> Robert.the answer is there all over the net.just Google... then you will see exactly what you want. From: Racing [mailto:racing-bounces at ausrace.com] On Behalf Of Robert Aldridge Sent: Saturday, 5 August 2017 1:57 PM To: Ausrace Subject: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement Does anyone on this list know the formula to enter into excel to the find the correct price movement percentage?. I need a formula so if the price shortens one would enter the longest price first, and the reverse if the lengthens. So what I need is a formula that I can enter into excel so I just have to enter the two prices to get the price movement as a percentage. Regards, Robert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nick.aubrey at twonix.com Mon Aug 7 06:21:27 2017 From: nick.aubrey at twonix.com (Nick at Twonix) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 06:21:27 +1000 Subject: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement In-Reply-To: <000501d30daf$9e7964b0$db6c2e10$@bigpond.net.au> References: <000501d30daf$9e7964b0$db6c2e10$@bigpond.net.au> Message-ID: <000d01d30ef1$9679d3b0$c36d7b10$@twonix.com> When they talk about the stock market going up or down on opening prices the formula is : (Closing Price divided by Opening Price ) minus 1 Eg1. Opening Price 2.5 Closing Price 2.0 Price movement -20% Eg2. Opening Price 2.5 Closing Price 3.0 Price movement +20% Cheers, AN From: Racing [mailto:racing-bounces at ausrace.com] On Behalf Of Robert Aldridge Sent: Saturday, 5 August 2017 3:57 PM To: Ausrace Subject: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement Does anyone on this list know the formula to enter into excel to the find the correct price movement percentage?. I need a formula so if the price shortens one would enter the longest price first, and the reverse if the lengthens. So what I need is a formula that I can enter into excel so I just have to enter the two prices to get the price movement as a percentage. Regards, Robert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lnicholas at gt.rr.com Mon Aug 7 07:21:54 2017 From: lnicholas at gt.rr.com (Linda Nicholas) Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 16:21:54 -0500 Subject: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement In-Reply-To: <000d01d30ef1$9679d3b0$c36d7b10$@twonix.com> References: <000501d30daf$9e7964b0$db6c2e10$@bigpond.net.au> <000d01d30ef1$9679d3b0$c36d7b10$@twonix.com> Message-ID: <325B1C84-EB69-4E60-A523-0411C303F1E9@gt.rr.com> Please delete me from your list Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 6, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Nick at Twonix wrote: > > When they talk about the stock market going up or down on opening prices the formula is : > (Closing Price divided by Opening Price ) minus 1 > Eg1. Opening Price 2.5 Closing Price 2.0 Price movement -20% > Eg2. Opening Price 2.5 Closing Price 3.0 Price movement +20% > Cheers, > AN > > From: Racing [mailto:racing-bounces at ausrace.com] On Behalf Of Robert Aldridge > Sent: Saturday, 5 August 2017 3:57 PM > To: Ausrace > Subject: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement > > Does anyone on this list know the formula to enter into excel to the find the correct price movement percentage?. > I need a formula so if the price shortens one would enter the longest price first, and the reverse if the lengthens. > > So what I need is a formula that I can enter into excel so I just have to enter the two prices to get the price > movement as a percentage. > > Regards, > Robert > _______________________________________________ > Racing mailing list > Racing at ausrace.com > http://ausrace.com/mailman/listinfo/racing_ausrace.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ral16763 at bigpond.net.au Mon Aug 7 09:29:40 2017 From: ral16763 at bigpond.net.au (Robert Aldridge) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 09:29:40 +1000 Subject: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement In-Reply-To: <000d01d30ef1$9679d3b0$c36d7b10$@twonix.com> References: <000501d30daf$9e7964b0$db6c2e10$@bigpond.net.au> <000d01d30ef1$9679d3b0$c36d7b10$@twonix.com> Message-ID: <001501d30f0b$e086e4b0$a194ae10$@bigpond.net.au> Hi Nick, 2.5 to 2.0 I get 10% price movement. 2.5 = 40% 2.0 = 50% hence a 10% gap whether firming or drifting in price. Rob From: Racing [mailto:racing-bounces at ausrace.com] On Behalf Of Nick at Twonix Sent: Monday, 7 August 2017 6:21 AM To: 'AusRace Racing Discussion List' Subject: Re: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement When they talk about the stock market going up or down on opening prices the formula is : (Closing Price divided by Opening Price ) minus 1 Eg1. Opening Price 2.5 Closing Price 2.0 Price movement -20% Eg2. Opening Price 2.5 Closing Price 3.0 Price movement +20% Cheers, AN From: Racing [mailto:racing-bounces at ausrace.com] On Behalf Of Robert Aldridge Sent: Saturday, 5 August 2017 3:57 PM To: Ausrace Subject: [AusRace] Excel Formula For Price Movement Does anyone on this list know the formula to enter into excel to the find the correct price movement percentage?. I need a formula so if the price shortens one would enter the longest price first, and the reverse if the lengthens. So what I need is a formula that I can enter into excel so I just have to enter the two prices to get the price movement as a percentage. Regards, Robert -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tonymoffat at bigpond.com Tue Aug 29 23:06:26 2017 From: tonymoffat at bigpond.com (Tony Moffat) Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:06:26 +0800 Subject: [AusRace] Tarcoola - The Horse and the House Message-ID: <000001d320c7$9fc2f090$df48d1b0$@bigpond.com> Tarcoola - The horse and the house. Tarcoola won the 1893 Melbourne Cup, at a good price, and had run well in Carbines Cup in 1890 also. In winning Tarcoola recorded 204.5 seconds which was amended that afternoon to 210.5 seconds. The first mentioned time would have had it winning 40 of the first 40 runnings, then 29 of the next 40 runnings, 5 of the next 40, and 1 of the next 18 (to end at the year 2000 running) As an aside it is interesting to see the race time improve through the years, it was not until 1925 with King Ingoda, that the recorded time was bettered, 204.25 seconds. Yes, the race distance has been shortened, by 61 feet, but you get the gist. The naming of the horse has caused some conjecture, Tarcoola (SA) claim it as theirs. Tarcoola, a sheep station at Dalton, claim ownership. Tarcoola is a house in Goulburn and Dad and Mum owned this from 1956 until moving in 1970. The house was designed by the architect Manfred senior, whose firm, a father and son show, designed many houses in the area. It was built for a Mr Connelly however the first occupant was Alexander Romula PARRISH. Parrish was born on Melbourne Cup day 1862 at Bowral. His middle name coincides with a Cup runner also, some years after his birth date. A biographer told Dad that Parrish won money on the Cup and other races and bought this house, and some shops, but further information is lacking. If so, this may explain the Tarcoola nameplate at the front door. The council records are incomplete, actually they are out of place having not being returned correctly after perusal and use by a previous biographer, so early data has not been verified. The house is situated on the corner of Verner and Cowper Streets. Cowper Street is the continuation of the Hume Highway. Verner Street comes up the steep hill from the main street, past the cathedrals and goes onto St Patricks, or more importantly, the swimming pool. The area was once a blue and green stone quarry and many houses and buildings have those rocks in their foundations. The bricks were made locally. The architects designed 16 houses that were built around so there is a uniformity to the area. The walls are not cavity constructed but interlocked. Essentially the house is a very strong brick rectangle. The timber formwork is mountain ash. Dad had the place re-wired and the plumbing updated. Tarcoola the house has as a feature a very large, long and wide upstairs veranda, unusual for the time and the house occupies two blocks, there was formerly a large kitchen garden and staff quarters and stable downstairs in the grounds.. There is an ancient grape vine there, the grape bunches are enormous, with perhaps 500 berries on each, as big as your bar fridge. The foundation blocks from the quarters are used in the garden now as retaining walls, the bricks were cleaned and taken to be used in the scoreboard building at the cricket oval near the pool. There is a space for tieing up a horse and cart on the side fence, the rail for that is still there, the fence gap or gate has been closed over now, but the baker and iceman left their horse there while they did their deliveries, maybe. There was a quantity of steel on the ground in the yard, some of it formed, rolled, as in yacht hull curves and perhaps a former occupant had aspirations of building a boat, there is a 3 phase power pole board nearby too. We sold that steel and I put my share towards a trail bike, a Cooper 250. Two of the sizeable downstairs rooms have been taken as garages, there is still a kitchen and other rooms downstairs, a dumb waiter, a stairway built around the dumb waiter space, and a proper stairway nearby, both lead up from the kitchen. Upstairs there is a long and wide hallway from the front door to the smaller kitchen at the back. You can play ping pong in that hall, it is that wide, Dad suggested carpet bowls, but we changed the subject and the feeling passed. There are three bedrooms, a dining and a lounge and library. The windows upstairs are from ceiling to floor, a design feature of other Manfred houses nearby. There are fan forced gas heaters, monsters, in the lounge and kitchen. It?s Goulburn, it is cold there. There are servant callers installed in each room upstairs, levers which actuate wires that cause bells to ring in the kitchen. The wires run on installed wooden paths in the roof cavity, these paths double as walkways up there as well. There is a radio aerial in the roof cavity and there was an aerial on the roof outside, if insulators are any guide. Those big valve radios needed quarter and half wave aerials to work. There is a phone, all Bakelite and bronze in the roof cavity too. To get to the roof, and the cavity before that, you entered the wall space downstairs and there was a ladder built there, attached to the wall, you climbed upwards, in the wall space, to a door way to the roof cavity, and if you continued upwards you removed a fitted and locked hatch and came out in the sunshine on the roof, where there was a walkway. There is a downstairs hallway too. The ceiling there, near the front, has a bullet hole but no projectile, this is also the floor of the upper level too, and the cupboard at the other end of the hall also has a bullet hole, again no projectile. Ok, perhaps there was a duel and they both missed, shook hands, and had a Pimms, but that was the thinking of a 17 year old youth, without a girlfriend again, back then. The garage was two rooms made into the garage, plenty of room for my motorbike and Dads HR Premier (with spats which he did not like). There was a dental college next door, with fat rabbits running rampant, we netted them in the sweet pea patch and returned them. They had perfect teeth though, nice smiles said Mum, sniggering. Over the road was a novitiate, a religious college, with stern Nuns and smiling girls who waved and declined the offered strawberries. Next to that was a training college, for something, it was American owned and run, with flash long American cars outside that scraped the driveway when coming and going. Down the hill was a locked ward hospice. There were 5 sp bookmakers that I was aware of in the city, two of those were shop fronts. One was where you walked down the aisles of shoes and handbags, and knocked on a counter and a woman took your bets. You had to know your bets and betting ended an hour before the advertised starting time. Other sp may have let you on until the off, so to speak. Paying was on Monday afternoon and there was a limit of $35 each outcome. On Saturday afternoon you entered through the caf? next to the shop or there was the telephone. The payout limit was increased for telephone bets. I never used them, those SP, nor did I have a code pass or telephone number. The TAB was on the other side of the road at thr opposite end of the street, 3 blocks away, and was plain to the extreme, two lines on the floor leading to a buying window, there was a centre table although the race field charts were on the walls, as you would expect. So you chose your bets, wrote a slip, checked the details from the charts again, then waited silently in the line for your bets, $0.25 cent multiples. Friendless places, then and now. I worked for Winchcombe,Carson in the woolstore, the best pre season training for me, lumping hundreds of wool bales into storage positions and display spots for the auction. They closed shortly after, moved to Melbourne for auctions and Geelong for storage. I was there to the end, with stalwart Elaine, did an audit of the assets, swept the place, turned off the lights, locked the door and left. I then moved to Sydney, to Neutral Bay for accommodation and to Kings Cross for school, a commercial college, six floors of that on Darlinghurst Road, with a brothel in the rear lane, I heard. I had completed and passed my HSC but was not permitted to do Trig at school, a story in itself, so I re-did the Leaving Certificate, the last year of that, and passed that also, with the Trig component included which I needed for Uni, engineering, specifically surveying. Again, this was another story in itself, and I did not become a surveyor as a result. The Tarcoola link continues though. In a year or so I was working for a man, doing straight line surveying and driving his dozer doing pads for houses and sheds out near Cobbitty, near Oran Park, and the third job was in Tarcoola Place, and to get to Tarcoola Place you had drive down Moffitts Lane. On the day of Tarcoolas win in the MC, Police raided the ?tote? building in Johnson Street Collingwood, number 148 now but 102a (or something) back then, owned and operated by John Wren. The tote building backed up to Sackville Street, where there was a secret entry/exit, it is said. The streetsigns for both Sackville Street and Johnston Street are on the wall in the downstairs lobby of the house ?Tarcoola? ? as is the expression ?due to a lack of interest today has been cancelled?. I don?t know why, or how or who but interesting coincidences anyway. There are, or were, other collectibles there too. Cheers Tony --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com