A Dozen Years of Hiden Gems
21-Jun-2015 20:27
The June 19th anniversary of Hidden Gems snuck up once again but fortunately it occurred on a Friday meaning I had the weekend to put together the HG vs. Alternate Indexes performance report. It is now posted on the HG Philosophy discussion board so give it a look.
Updated HG Watch Lists
22-Feb-2015 23:04
It took the better part of an entire day but I updated my Motley Fool Hidden Gems performance statistics for the newsletter Watch List, Tiny Gems and Supplemental stock list. Here are the links to the discussion board posts:
The Watch List and Tiny Gems numbers were also formatted as Excel spreadsheets. See the Spreadsheets page for download instructions. The update macro in the spreadsheets isn’t working very well any more. It uses Microsoft’s MSN Money site for stock quotes and it just isn’t very reliable any more.
I really need to find a better way to track this stuff, it took hours to reconcile all of the numbers. With these small companies they often go broke, are acquired or merge with another company. It takes a lot of time to run down what happened to a stock and try to get accurate prices. Between that and the finicky Excel features I tend to put off updating the lists which only makes it worse.
So maybe I can find a better way to handle it. Or more likely it will be another 2 years before I update the list.
The Watch List and Tiny Gems numbers were also formatted as Excel spreadsheets. See the Spreadsheets page for download instructions. The update macro in the spreadsheets isn’t working very well any more. It uses Microsoft’s MSN Money site for stock quotes and it just isn’t very reliable any more.
I really need to find a better way to track this stuff, it took hours to reconcile all of the numbers. With these small companies they often go broke, are acquired or merge with another company. It takes a lot of time to run down what happened to a stock and try to get accurate prices. Between that and the finicky Excel features I tend to put off updating the lists which only makes it worse.
So maybe I can find a better way to handle it. Or more likely it will be another 2 years before I update the list.
Site Update
17-Feb-2015 17:33
It has been a while since the web site has had any attention. After an OS update on the computer it was about time to upgrade a few things and it was easier to recreate the site than try and port over the old one. And so here it is…
Happy Investing!
Happy Investing!