Hello and welcome to our community! - Page 69 - Warren Buffett, Ben Graham Investment Community

Avi_Aimar · #**681** (**permalink**) 03-11-2007, 07:17 PM

Just wanted to say to everyone in this community and I hope that we will help each other in our goal to become better investors. Again, HI!

**Justin** · #**682** (**permalink**) 03-11-2007, 07:32 PM

Hey Avi, welcome to the community!

ozenwealth · #**683** (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 03:23 PM

Hello Ya'll

How are you. My name is Dean. I read Rule 1 investing before xmas 06 and am very excited about getting started. Would love to meet some people. Hope you have a great week.

Dean O

foghat · #**684** (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 03:44 PM

Hi I am new to the site. Thanks for all the great info. I have read Rule 1 and ready to get my feet wet. I do have one question, I have been using the old excel spreadsheet until it quit working. I down loaded the new one last week
but can't seam to get it to work, I keep getting a 1004 error, dose any one
have any idea what I might be doing wrong??

jmofosho · #**685** (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 03:49 PM

The spreadsheet is down because MSN is changing the format of their website making it difficult to get the correct numbers. Justin is working on a new excel worksheet.

**Justin** · #**686** (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 04:49 PM

Welcome to the community Dean!

foghat · #**687** (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 05:20 PM

Thanks for the reply. All info is appreciated.

Gunnski · #**688** (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 05:26 PM

Great band!

Try doing the numbers by hand using Phil's website calculators. In the R-1 book Pgs. 148-171 layout the quickest way to crank out the numbers. Do a few & it comes real quick. You get a lot better feel for a business than just looking at a spreadsheet, that may or may not have the correct numbers.

Polymath · #**689** (**permalink**) 03-12-2007, 07:39 PM

Hey whats goin on? Been lookin for a site like this for a while now... lets make some money

PerryM · #**690** (**permalink**) 03-13-2007, 07:30 AM

Hi, new to this site, 30+ years investing in stocks.

I'm trying to track down some historical data on the DJIA. This sounds easy but I'm having a devil of a time. Here's what I'm looking for:

Year - DJIA - Dividend

I know this sounds easy but I can't find data going back to 5/26/1896

I just need end the end of year DJIA (which I already have) but I'm trying to get the Dividend paid for the year, either as a dollar amount or percentage.

If anyone can give me a link you will save this investor a lot of time.

Or, if an index representing both the DJIA closing value and the dividend has been created I'll take that too.

Thanks,

Perry