My plan to teach the kids how to invest for the long haul is coming along quite nicely. I am writing a program that searches through stocks within a range of market capitalizations on the internet to rank them according to their “cheapness” and “goodness”. So far, I can download a list of stocks and retrieve their cheapness, goodness, and market capitalization automatically. Next, I am going to do the ranking and generate an HTML table that is automatically ftp’ed up to a website or emailed. Then, I am going to do a test run with my program and the kids to see if the methods work as advertised. I will try to set up some specific rules for them to follow in evaluating how they are going to invest and start in on a year of practice trading.

Aunt Jean called last night. She is in Dallas for a week. We are hoping to see her tomorrow, but she is really over an hour away (with the traffic) at the time we have available to go see her. I had a great talk with her last night and it sounds like she is really doing great.