Comments on Fund My Mutual Fund: Worldwide Readership

T-rader, thanks for your comments - the growth in ...

2008-01-02T18:47:00.000-05:00

T-rader, thanks for your comments - the growth in the website and comments such as yours keep me going when I get tired or a bit frustrated - sometimes your goals seem so far away, you know? Finding 6K people or even 3K will take a lot of hours.

You are correct, it is time consuming and going into it I did not know how much time it would take. That said, I look at it as an 'investment'. If I could pull off this blog goal, I would be able to do something I love doing as a career and not "work" for the rest of life (Ken Heebner says he will never retire since he loves what he does, I feel the same!) - so every day or hour I invest in this blog "might" get me closer to my goal. If readers agree of course, and I need to perform way better than the average to grab attention. But thinking of it as an investment towards a bigger goal keeps me going at times. But thanks for recognizing the work. Luckily I type very fast as well, but it still takes time and I am trying to find something more manageable - I used to do 50+ posts a week and am trying shoot for something under 40 every week so I don't burn out. :)

I do appreciate every reader since there are so many financial places to read in the world of the internet, so I am hoping to win over my slice - and then hopefully convince them to help me out as well - then we can have a great 2 way street that would be unprecedented. :)

Hey TraderMark,First of all I want to say thanks f...

2008-01-02T17:01:00.000-05:00

Hey TraderMark,

First of all I want to say thanks for taking the time and effort to post your thoughts and opinions on the market.

I recently started a blog just to keep a diary of my thoughts on the market. I find it helpful when rehashing a trade what my thought process was at the time. I had no idea how much time it took to do a blog. It isn't even that good! Its just my random thoughts on the market that probably doesn't make any sense to anybody but me.

But I digress, my point being is that I realize how much time and effort you put on your blog and I just wanted to say thank you. I find your opinions and analysis on the market to be quite frankly... brilliant! I'm sure I'm not the only one.

You have jumped near the top of my favorite financial bloggers. Now I don't know how much traffic you get but I am from Seattle and I frequent your site multiple times daily now. I doubt I am single handedly causing the spike in readership of your blog from this area but I think I am helping :)

Anyways I look forward to reading more of your writing during the upcoming year.

I wish there was an easy way to screen funds for p...

2007-12-31T15:29:00.000-05:00

I wish there was an easy way to screen funds for performance

unfortunately, Morningstar shows every class of a fund, i.e. A shares, B shares, C shares, D shares so one fund shows up 4 times. I'd like to see how many domestic funds are doing X% for past 6 months or 12 months. Morningstar and every other screener I have found overstates it becauser it triple or quadruple counts each fund. However, with 1st half 2007 being 'easier' than 2nd half 2007, I doubt many domestic funds have made 25% in the back half of the year (heebner notwithstanding) I expect heebner to get a flood of money this year as people performance chase. I would really like to see where I would fit in the big picture; if you exclude foreign funds (i.e. China) which invest in a totally different world - I'd throw this fund against mid cap and large cap growth funds. I think it would be very highly ranked thus far, but it's still very early.

I was thinking maybe 3000 people at $5000 might get me to where I need to be quicker. Finding 6000 souls at $2500 might take forever. We shall see. In a year from now I will start taking some polls to see how many people would be serious. if it's like 35 people than I just give up and I will see that people just came here to get the stock ideas ;) No harm there, but I do have bigger goals.

$2500....hmmm...does not sound too risky....especi...

2007-12-31T14:43:00.000-05:00

$2500....hmmm...does not sound too risky....especially since I like your style.

I'll still count on Kenny Heebner to bring me some more joy in 2008. :)

Thanks! I will be looking forward to your 'thanks'...

2007-12-31T12:24:00.000-05:00

Thanks! I will be looking forward to your 'thanks' in 2010 ;)

Have a good new year as well.

Kudos to your blog. Thanks for all the work you'v...

2007-12-31T09:36:00.000-05:00

Kudos to your blog. Thanks for all the work you've done here...I really enjoy reading it.

Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2008