As you can imagine, I am doing very little this week-hence the lack of posts. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! (I did) We ended the year on a strong note with the Tribune play. Some visitors have asked for more clarification as to how I analyzed the deal and I’ll post that in the new year. A quick thanks to kfh227 for one of my new favorite quotes (I’ve used it a dozen times when talking about our Tribune play:
Don’t try to pick up coins in front of the bulldozer.
Finally, a big, huge, monstrous thanks to all of you whom have visited, contributed, and keep coming back. Since the site’s launch on June 25, 2007, F Wall Street has had more than 1,000,000 visits! In my six months of blogging, I have realized:
- It is very difficult to post something every day because, well, investing is pretty boring.
- There are some phenomenal blogs out there. (I never really looked before I started F Wall Street)
- Spammers will do just about anything to get links on a site. (If you need airline tickets, coupons, cheap Viagra, or Russian babysitters, let me know)
- If I wanted to make any money with the site, I’s really have to bog you down with ads. (I’ve made just under $110 in six months, though I do not run F Wall Street for the money nor do I expect you to suffer through a bloated advertising website)
- It takes a long time to sell and publish a book. (But more on that in January)
- There are some wonderful people out there that are willing to go the extra mile for complete internet strangers. (Your willingness to comment and respond to comments is awesome)
And so, as we head into 2008, let me be one of the first to wish you a happy and healthy new year filled with peace, joy, and prosperity. See you next year!
Joe Ponzio
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Related Stocks: TRB
Joe,
Your doing the community a great service with your dedication and commitment to this site. Ive learned so much from your thoughts as well as the learning journey that you and the people on this site have me to initiate.
Great that you have the “silent partners” in mind by keeping the site clean and simple.
Thanks a lot and Happy New Year.
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Hey Joe,
Thanks a ton for all of the content here–you’re helping to shape me into a skilled and intelligent investor 
I read this article a while ago out of curiosity and it seems to be a quite reasonable number of advertisements that he makes his money off of http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/
Some of the article is fluff for people who have absolutely never blogged but there is some useful stuff in there, I hope.
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Hello Joe,
Happy New Year to you!! And thank you for this wonderful blog and your insights into investing. I have greatly benefited from both. In your Aug 3 article titled ‘How to find a stock with a Moat’ there was a discussion about you and Robert Crawford making available an Excel spreadsheet that would query Morningstar and Yahoo for companies with possibilities. I have searched your web site, however I am unable to find that tool. Would you be kind enough to point me to that page that contains a link to that program?
In addition, could you please post a list of blogs that you regularly follow.
Thank you,
JD
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Thanks all. As much as I hate to have the holiday break over, I do like being back with all of you!
JD: Sanjay over at India Investor has a screener (and some great posts!) As I am still working with my technology guy on this, I won’t have anything for a while.
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Joe,
Just wanted to say, keep up the great blogging, myself and others really appreciate what you’ve done with it so far, and I am ready for that book whenever it does come out. Great work so far.
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