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May I ask what that other board is? I would certainly understand if you were not interested in sharing that for one reason or another.

Awesome Thanks for sharing

Hysterical

Value Line appears to be working now

That's my favorite episode.

The issue is affecting all of us. There's now a banner across the Value Line website: " Value Line is currently experiencing some technical difficulties and we are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. We are aware of the problem and expect to have a resolution shortly. We apologize for any inconvenience."

Thanks for the recommendation. It was a fun read.

I agree. I couldn’t put the Walton book down either. Which Buffett and munger books are you referring to? (I’ve reread Damn Right a couple of times...)

Regular exercise changes the brain to improve memory, thinking skills https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/regular-exercise-changes-brain-improve-memory-thinking-skills-201404097110

I gave www.inoreader.com a run today... not bad; reminds me a lot of feedly

Bought a little more Wells Fargo and Google today

Hi Daniel Thank you for sharing. David

I was thinking the same thing

Completely agree; very impressive!

I added to my PCLN today

I have always bought new cars, but I decided to buy a used car this time. I was hoping to buy a Certified Preowned Car (CPO) this time. I was looking for a 2016 or 2017 with reasonably low mileage. MUch to my surprise, the dealers were asking more for these cars than I thought was reasonable. I ended up buying a new car because the price difference between a 2017 CPO with 18,000 miles and a new 2018 was just $500.

Awesome! Looking forward to it! Thanks for your suggestions! I think it can be done. I'll make the website mobile friendly also. I'll consider mobile app for the next step if users like the content of the website.

I'm also really tired of the poor quality articles that show up on Google and Yahoo Finance sites. I've tried several (OK, maybe all) of the apps and haven't been happy with any of them. I'd like to see a SeekingAlpha like app without any of the SA articles; I just want the press releases and articles from professional sources (i.e WSJ) Also, I'd like to see all the news stories from all of my holdings included in date order. I don't want to have to click on each of my holdings to see their particular news stories. Now, if you can have this available on a website and as an app (Android please!) I'll be very happy.

I haven't tried to pull in the options info, sorry.

Even though I'm using Google Sheets, I still get that from Yahoo: =importdata("http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s="&$A3&"&f=y")

I have given up and moved to Google Sheets for my downloads. It does everything well except for dividends which can be done although it's not as simple as the other functions (i.e. stock price)

Thanks. I'm going to create a three-month ladder of three-month T-bills.

An editor probably would run about $1,000 USD Book cover about $250 to $500 Assuming a $1,500 initial outlay... if you're making $3 per book, it will take just 500 book sales to cover your costs. Book sales... while I won't get into specifics, you hear about people quitting their day job all the time. If you are writing fiction, and are writing a series of book, and you are writing on a topic that has a following, and people start buying your book, you could quit your day job. There are Facebook groups dedicated to such successful authors. Conversely, if (like me) you write about topics which only a few people are interested in reading about (ALTHOUGH THEY ALL SHOULD! ;-) ); topics like investing for people who know nothing about investing, then you might not end up making enough to quit your day job. But yes, a nice dinner every month, for sure. There are many people making money writing about niche topics and some make a nice living. Feel free to ask anything else David

I have self-published three books on Kindle/Createspace -- these are both Amazon wholly owned subsidiaries. Process: Over the years, the publishing process has gotten much easier. It's so easy to publish your book on Kindle, you can simply upload your MS Word file. Createspace (for paperbacks) is a little more involved, however, Kindle now lets you publish paperbacks too, so I suspect it might be almost as easy as publishing your digital book, but I don't know as I the Kindle paperback option didn't exist when I wrote my three books. Marketing: Kindle has recently added advertising options. This really helps keep your book selling. My books are two, three, and four years old. For most authors, older books tend to get stale and don't sell as many copies as newer books. (Of course, the big named authors will continue to sell older books.) These new Amazon Ads have really rejuvenated sales for my books. Pricing: Since you get to set the price of your book, you control the amount you will make for each book sold. Amazon takes a healthy chunk of the revenue. You get 70% of digital revenue and about 55% of paperback revenue. You'll likely get more money per book sold than you would if you went the traditional route. All in all, it's pretty easy to self-publish. For me, the toughest part was editing. My wife was my editor. She's a wonderful editor, but it can put a strain on your relationship. ;) My suggestion would be to get a professional editor and a professional book cover designer. This makes for a bit of a cash outlay. So that's the real difference between traditional and self-publishing. With the latter, you are responsible for everything, including marketing. Going the traditional route, you submit the manuscript, they do the rest. Hope that helps. David

I tend to keep my cars for a decade or more. My wife's car is 19. Mine just turned 10. Ten years ago, the last time I bought a car, I went to KBB, found out a reasonable price. Contacted several nearby dealers via email and told each one what I wanted and what I was willing to pay. I told them all exactly what I was doing and indicated that the first one to match the price and provide me with a VIN would get my business. I walked in the next day and was out an hour later with my new car. While this worked, I'm considering using Costco's auto buying service next time. They have arrangements with dealers for Certified Pre-Owned cars. I might look to buy a one or two year old car next time instead... provided that the price is reasonable.