SMS alerts in excel

[Market Wizard]

Is it possible to setup SMS alerts to your mobile phone from an excel spreadsheet? Anyone have any experience of doing this?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

 

[cashcow]

There is no native support for this in Excel - however there are third party providers. Personally I would take a look at something like TextAnywhere and hire a developer to do this - although if you are an Excel wiz you may be able to do this yourself. I would stress that if the messages are very important and you want to know for sure that they have been received/sent - then you probably want a developer to do it.
You can also hook into received messages in Excel - insomuch as it should be possible to send a message "KillOrders" to a number and your Excel spreadsheet pulls orders etc. Of course you want to sent a message to say that the operation was successful - not just that it was received.
You could do P&L/position reports and all sorts of interesting things.
Remember though, always make sure that security is high - it is possible for internet packets to be snooped at the last thing you want is someone sending a text to your system to wipe out your account. If you actually want to modify and enter orders - probably best to get a PDA with Remote Desktop built in and just remote into the PC from that.