News & Notes for Subscribers

	Sept 4 2009: Finally we'e found an international broker Someone who can help Australians buy  US stocks and who can open the Australian market to North Americans! See more information on Kinetic here.   June 24 2009: Now Available, The North American Version. See the list of the initial 60 companies here.       Download the User Guide!                   It's friendly :-) The full colour 39 pages of information on how to get the most out of both GoldNerds spreadsheets, designed especially for people who hate reading User Guides. Admire the graphics, marvel at the reasoning, delight in the clarity, and be amazed that it HAS an index. There are full explanations of investment factors, descriptions of how to slice, dice and sieve the data, points to look for in a company, average values-per-ounce for different stages in the gold sector, and warning signs of stocks at risk of sudden price falls.                                                                   Goldnerds User Guide1.1 790 Kb
	Which Version of GoldNerds is right for you?  See a full list side-by-side so you can compare Standard and Pro versions, and an explanation of every column so you can learn more about the terms and factors we use (6 pages).       Standard Vs Pro version130 Kb                   (1 page flyer with a 'Tick list' of features)      Factors we cover                   (6 page list with a description of each column)

  Up and Coming Changes 

•  Version 3. We had hoped to bring Version 2 to life in Jan 2009. The massive new software went out to researchers last week, but o-no! Excel bugs mean that the large file was unworkable on many computers. (Guess we pushed that software to its limits, and then some, sigh.) So we plan to rebuild the entire spreadsheet from scratch as a stand-alone piece of software. (No more microsoft - yay). It will unfortunately take months. Apologies for the delay to all those who were hoping to see it sooner. But in the end it will be much better, much bigger, faster and more powerful without Excel...
•  Version 3 will be an even more user friendly way to view the mass of data.
   A full window to view each company, rather than a line on a spreadsheet.
•  A full breakdown of reserves and resources into different categories.
•  All mineral resources (Cu, Ni, Fe...etc) will be included.
•  A Change Report. A document describing the changes every two weeks
   to draw attention to the most interesting announcements that came out
   since the last update.
•  Record of Insider buying and selling.
•  Record of Recent Drill results.

  What we've done since Aug 2007

•  We've added 75 companies ,
•  Included a full table of options,
   that recalculates in-the-money options with every share price move*.
•  Designed a table of investments
   that updates the value of the investments every time you update the price*.
•  Marked the cells which have changed since the last update.
•  Added Help buttons.
   (*Pro version)

NOTE: We don't make many news announcements here. If for some reason our email systems are down, or something unforseen occurs, we'll post notes here. Otherwise we tend to email subscribers because then we can be sure people get the message. So this is a message board of last resort for news, and a good place to leave notes that subscribers may want to come back and check on.

Updated: 7 Sept 2009