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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Mechanical Investing
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Author: Baltassar   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Another possible screen
Date: 01/16/25 6:56 PM
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More and more sites made changes which made it difficult or impossible to easily download or scrape the data.
Some sites just flat out shut down altogether.
That's the risk of depending on the kindness of strangers.


Sadly true. The simple screens I use can be executed, by and large, using widely available info and calculations adapted to my limited skills in Excel. It was a sad day for me when GTR1 lost the ability to use Yahoo data; but I have learned how to do some simple things for myself as a consequence.

That is, however, a reason why I would not consider an S&P "top x" screen for myself. I am not confident that I could execute it properly absent GTR1 (which I continue to revere, of course!).

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