tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160043532009-08-03T11:20:08.057-06:00The GolfInvestors Blog is dedicated to thoughts revolving around GolfInvestors...with some rambling allowed. <br> Readers encouraged to post comments about any specific blog entry.Johnny Momo Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01518330482010663614jmueller@golfsolutions.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16004353.post-58946573942616323572008-08-24T08:31:00.004-06:002009-01-22T10:15:19.175-07:00

Is the Golf CLi calculation delayed in predicting the tournament results correctly? I ask this question to see if the Golf CLi is predicting 1-2 weeks or 1-2 tournaments early for the players that are on a trend of getting better and better each week. Then looking at the opposite of that, could it be that the Golf CLi is predicting late by 1-2 weeks for the players that are on a trend of

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Many people I talk to about GolfInvestors directly infer that GolfInvestors is set of PUBLIC stock markets. Even though I compare GolfInvestors to the NYSE, NASDAQ and other public stock markets, GolfInvestors is not set of PUBLIC stock markets. Right now GolfInvestors is more a set of private stock markets, and possibly could have a public stock market in the future if all government

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I have finally completed the move to Kentucky from Colorado. Not all of the boxes are unpacked, but the essentials are out of their boxes in the new house. So that means I can continue with my life as normal. Except now, it is time to start my doctorate program, which is why we moved to Kentucky in the first place. My first day in the program will be this Friday, August 1st. It should be

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For the past week and a half I have been moving across country in a moving truck as my family and I are moving from Colorado to Kentucky. As such, the tournament results and news updates on GolfInvestors have been delayed. Rather than having the tournament results updated after each round finishes (i.e. on the same day a round is played), I have been updating the results at the end of each

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On GolfInvestors there is a tournament analysis for each player that is in a tournament's field. That page is called the 'player tournament analysis' page. Here is an example of the player tournament analysis for Jim Furyk in the 2008 RBC Canadian Open. Jim Furyk: RBC Canadian Open: Player Tournament Analysis The player tournament analysis page has been in existence on the GolfInvestors for

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Most tournaments on GolfInvestors have their field entered initially on the Friday before the week of the tournament. After that changes to the field are documented in the discussion forum associated with the tournament. This helps users track which players have been removed from and added to the tournament before the tournament starts. For example, the PODS Championship's discussions forum

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To find your outstanding orders on GolfInvestors, you would go to the My Account - Orders page. The My Account - Orders page shows all of your unexecuted orders. You can see the filter on the page to search for any unexecuted order you have in the GolfInvestors system. Whereas, if you are looking for your orders that have been executed, you would use the My Account - History page.

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One of the features of GolfInvestors is that you can opt to receive a weekly email that shows the results of the offerings that were done the previous week. Below is an example of the weekly offering email I received today (Monday) showing me the results of the offerings that occurred last week on the 2008 Season Market. -----Original Message----- From: GolfInvestors [mailto:info@

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Today I posted on the Gi's About - For Advertisers section which tells advertisers that they can get access to Gi's Google Analytics results. I decided to provide access to potential advertisers to Gi's Google Analytics results so potential advertisers can see from a 3rd party what the site traffic is for the Gi web site, be it good or bad results. Site traffic changes day by day, however,

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Am going to try out Twitter to see if it is worth it or not to keep updates of what I am doing on GolfInvestors. To following along, my Twitter URL is: http://twitter.com/golfmomo I will try to keep updates updated on Twitter so that it makes it worth it to follow along. Who knows, it might be a waste of time or it might be interesting to follow along. Will find out over the course of the

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I was reading an article today by CBS Sportsline's Steve Elling (formerly with the Orlando Sentinel) about the 2008 rookies on the US PGA Tour [ here is the article ]. While I was reading the article a small sentence caught my eye. He said: mini-tours is a form of "legalized gambling" (under Kevin Streelman's bio). Elling's premise for saying that playing mini-tours is gambling is because the

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Since we have implemented the hCalendar microformat on GolfInvestors, users can now export tournament schedules easily into their own calendar application (i.e. MS Outlook, Google Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar, etc.). To learn more about how to export a tournament schedule from GolfInvestors, watch the screencast below which shows how to use the FireFox 'Operator' add-on to export the 2008 US PGA

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Yes, golf professionals should have a web site. At the very least, they should register the domain of their name if possible so that other people will not take it. Then in the future, if one wants to do something with the domain as a web site or use it for email only, one can do so and not have to worry about another person squatting on the domain. Then the golfer is ready to utilize their

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One of the things that some users have asked for in the simulation stock markets that GolfInvestors run is the ability to have interim challenges, such as weekly and monthly change challenges. These would be where investors could compare the change in their portfolio's Net Asset Value (NAV) with other investors week to week and month to month. It would be a nice feature to have, and not very

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Some users have asked why we run simulation stock markets on GolfInvestors when we are trying to be a real stock market environment. Just so everyone is clear, the simulation markets, as opposed to the real stock markets on GolfInvestors, are like fantasy games. There are several reasons why we run simulation markets on GolfInvestors. 1. Feedback By running simulation markets we are able to

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Something that GolfInvestors includes in its stock charts for players is an earnings line. It is a green line (with the idea that the color green represents money) showing the trend of the player's tournament earnings as compared to their stock price. See the example below of the 365d / 1y chart for Geoff Ogilvy [ GEOGY ] on the 2007 Season Market as of today, Sept 11th, 2007. The chart is

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Recently we added some Google Map features on the GolfInvestors site. They include: - Map where the current week's tournaments are being played. [ view ] - Map where the player's in the tournament's field reside on the tournament field page. [ view - example is of the 2007 John Deere Classic - make sure to page down to the bottom of the page] - Map where a player has played their tournaments

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It looks like investment banks are trying to get in on the action of running stock markets, namely private stock markets. Goldman Sachs is the latest one to become an operate of a stock market by turning on their GsTRUE private stock market last month (May). The GSTruE market made press in late May by taking a quality private equity fund and putting their shares on the GSTrue market. The

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This is a quick screencast of how to buy a player on a GolfInvestors stock market. In the screencast we use shares of Ernie Els (ERELS) on the 2007 Season Market as an example. The 2007 Season Market is a simulation market. [ view screencast ]

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Over the past several years stock markets, namely American stock markets, are trying to purchase stock markets outside of the USA. Why? Note: Before the American stock markets looked outside of their borders, they decided to change from a non-profit organization to a for-profit organization and then put their organizations on their own public stock market. After they purchased one another in

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Something that I am found of with GolfInvestors is the focus on setting up stock markets along industry lines (industry-segmented) which are for micro- and small-businesses. Some of the key factors of these types of stock markets are: experts handle the market, not generalistsspecific financial metrics for the industry are used for financial reportingspecific accounting rules and statements are

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In the effort of letting investors know when an offering changes, the GolfInvestors system sends out emails notifications when the status of an offering has changed. See the 3 sample email messages below that I received via email today regarding different offering status changes on the 2007 Season Market. You can receive such emails by going to the Gi account preferences and configuring your

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On of the simple features that GolfInvestors has is the ability to send emails to users when their orders are executed. For example, I received the following email within the hour regarding one of the orders that was executed on the 2007 Season Market. It shows that my order executed for selling 1 share :-) of James Driscoll [ JADRL ] on the 2007 Season Market. From: GolfInvestors Sent:

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A feature that many users do not know about on GolfInvestors is the ability to change the design of the GolfInvestors web site. This feature has been implemented 3 or 4 years ago, however, has not been marketed much to users. I have created a short screencast on how to change the design of the Gi web site. This screencast shows you how the Gi site design changes with a click of a button.

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Here is another screencast...they are getting easier to do now that I understand the technology better.Today's screen is on understanding the tournament results in a player's profile. In the screencast, Steve Stricker's tournament results are used as an example of what the figures mean. Click on the image below to start the screencast. [ view screencast ]

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