Thanks for the reply Dial. Please ignore my other post on the same subject.

I have seen excel eod backtests in the equity world, never a tick by tick backtest. I would assume tick by tick would be overwhelming (especially 2 yrs) in a spreadsheet. I was thinking I would output to csv from perl/python/c/c++/... and use excel ...

Ok, I know this is probably the wrong thread to post this. But as a followup to my above queries I started a thread about data from disktrading.com. Looks as though it was deleted. Any ideas why? I am in no way related to that site or promoting it, ...