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by TrevorShrade
Tue Jun 20, 2017 12:03 am
Forum: Permanent Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Spreadsheets to Track PP
Replies: 49
Views: 144165

Re: Spreadsheets to Track PP

http://www.apmex.com/ no longer lists gold prices on their main page....You should be able to just change it out for http://www.apmex.com/category/10000/gold and It should start working again. If not here is what i've been using: =ImportXml("http://www.apmex.com/category/10000/gold","...
by TrevorShrade
Sat Jan 30, 2016 1:58 am
Forum: Bonds
Topic: Tracking bonds in google spreadsheet or other from CUSIP?
Replies: 8
Views: 8925

Re: Tracking bonds in google spreadsheet or other from CUSIP?

is there any way that I can import the previous closing price rather than importing prices from WSJ, so that I can estimate real-time prices by adding the % change of TLT? =IFERROR(Importxml("http://wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3020-treasury-"&TEXT(TODAY()-1,"YYYYMMDD")&&qu...
by TrevorShrade
Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:59 pm
Forum: Bonds
Topic: Price updates when owning bonds directly
Replies: 18
Views: 12209

Re: Price updates when owning bonds directly

Sure. By the way, it does seem to be updating in a timely manner after all. I think I got this from fnord and one other bright spark. If it looks like I'm dumbing it down, that's just in case brand new readers come across this. I know most of this will be obvious to you. =vlookup(date(2040,11,15),w...
by TrevorShrade
Sat Jun 07, 2014 4:18 pm
Forum: Bonds
Topic: How to value direct bond holdings on Google Docs?
Replies: 42
Views: 35735

Re: How to value direct bond holdings on Google Docs?

Here try this: =ImportXml("http://wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3020-treasury.html","//tr[td=' 2/15/2042 ']/td[ 3 ]") Just change 2/15/2042 to the maturity date of the Bond you wish to lookup.  If you want to pull other data from the tables at http://wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3020-tr...
by TrevorShrade
Fri Dec 20, 2013 4:59 pm
Forum: Variable Portfolio Discussion
Topic: Forget gold, buy gun (stocks)
Replies: 2
Views: 2754

Re: Forget gold, buy gun (stocks)

I remember TripleB talking about this a year ago.  I hope he didn't sell.

http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/va ... ster-ammo/

Anyone heard from him lately?  I always enjoyed reading his posts.