Market Trading vs TSP

**mayday** · 12-06-2006, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by Spaf

Mayday,
Had lunch with some old friends, their son came along, he's a electronics guru that works for Yahoo!
He had a cell phone that connected to the internet and functioned just like a computer. I could log onto my broker, set stops and buys, connect with TSPTalk, make a phone call, and watch TV. All in package slightly bigger than a package of cigarettes.
Amazing!
Maybe Santa need to bring us some of these things!..........

Spaf

Spaf Well behaved people rarely make history. Maybe I can sit on the fat guys lap and see if he don't throw me off this year. Last year his elves looked like bouncers and Hooters girls. Devices such as these require small fingers and a certian amount of patience. I could get my daughter to teach me. What is this device called a blackberry or something else?

**Spaf** · 12-06-2006, 02:43 PM

Mayday,
I think it was from Verison. But you are right it had a whole bunch of buttons, you would really need to use your small finger............

**fabijo** · 12-06-2006, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by mayday

Sounds like a dream. How can this program read market conditions day to day? Just wondering.

There could be a couple of ways. If you are just interested in the TSP prices, you can have the program log onto http://www.tsp.gov/rates/share-prices.html
Then it just needs to look at the table data to see if there are any new dates. On dates you do not have, it downloads the data from those rows.

The more college classes I take in programming, the more possible this type of thing seems.

**mayday** · 12-06-2006, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by fabijo

There could be a couple of ways. If you are just interested in the TSP prices, you can have the program log onto http://www.tsp.gov/rates/share-prices.html
Then it just needs to look at the table data to see if there are any new dates. On dates you do not have, it downloads the data from those rows.

The more college classes I take in programming, the more possible this type of thing seems.

Can this program look into the future 4,12,24 hours Thats got to have a lot of variables. Just wondering.