Hi

Maybe you try to explain more clearly, what is your table setup, and what do
you want to calculate. In your example here, there are 3 column labels, but
4 column of data - with some mess of headers between them. And data from
which column do you want to sum? When from 3rd or 4th column, then what is
the data type in them - maybe it's text? And do you want the running sum
(i.e. from top of table to current row), or you want to sum the whole column
(the latter is nonsense IMHO - you get same value for all rows).

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"Dismal" wrote in message
...
thanks Jason, but no luck. I am still trying to figure our the formula
for
column J:


H I J
MARKET ENTRY DIFF
POSITION PRICE
1 100 18/32 10/32
-1 100 28/32
1 100 17/32 11/32
1
1
1
1
1
1
-1 101 4/32 9/32
-1
-1


"Jason Morin" wrote:

Try:

=SUMIF(A:A,1,B:B)-SUMIF(A:A,-1,B:B)

or maybe:

=ABS(SUM(SUMIF(A:A,1,B:B),-SUMIF(A:A,-1,B:B)))

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

-----Original Message-----
Could someone point me in the right direction with a
formula. I am trying to
use excel to backtest some trading rules and one column
designates a long or
short position and the next column designates the entry
price. I am trying
to create a third column that will add up the difference
between the short
and and long entries. Assuming that there is a position
either long or short
all of the time.

For example:
A1 = 1, B1 = 44.00
A2 = 1,
A3 = 1.
A4 = -1, B4 = 47.00
A5 = -1,
A6 = -1,
A7 = 1, B7 = 48.00....

Is there a way to write a formula that will sum up the
difference between
the long and short positions?

Regards,

Dismal

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