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Excel is used quite a lot in the finance sector.

I my previous job I had to write a plugin to allow traders to do some simple algo trading in Excel.

Oh, and once you are forced to work in VBA all other languages seem amazing.

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I worked for a long time in Finance & Market Data - in Europe (UK/CH mostly). Most people would be surprised how much of it runs of Excel.

Particularly Fixed Income - a lot of the sophisticated instruments will be priced straight off Excel spreadsheets (so you use Excel to publish data, not just analyse it).

In fact, most people outside finance would be surprised at how much sophisticated analysis and interactivity you can build in Excel. Once you start digging under the hood it's a powerful platform. The only addition you need is a pricing feed e.g. Bloomberg.

I'd like to ask you a few questions about your finance experience - could you contact me? ben@datanitro.com

If you've got any questions, feel free to drop me an e-mail as well - it's in my profile.

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