Sunday, June 13, 2010

Buffet Portfolio Watcher - keeping track of Berkshire Hathaway's Portflolio

I have created a nokia free apps that keep track of Warren Buffet's portfolio
Get it for free to use on your nokia phone
http://store.ovi.com/content/42460

Warren Buffett is undoubtedly the world most famous and most successful stock market investor. There are various books and web resources that dedicate to Warren Buffett and his supporters run into the millions throughout the world.
Warren Buffett, through Berkshire Hathaway, has maintained a stock investment portfolio that has continuously beat the market and has been generating compounding return of over 24% annually for the past many years. As such, it is very interesting to follow the movement of Warren Buffet stock portfolio.
Buffett Portfolio Watcher aims just to do this, with a primary objective of making the app a useful tool to help the user in managing their personal finance (i.e by keeping track on how an investment guru does it). It easily lets enthusiastic investors to follow Warren Buffet’s stock portfolio. By referencing the investment portfolio of the world most famous investment master, the user can take heed and make good decision on his own stock investment. In addition, the app does list down some common investment knowledge such as key financial ratio which is used in stock valuation for user to use as daily reference. The app can serve as a mini stock investment reference on the go. This, hopefully, will assist in increasing the level of efficiency for personal finance management.
The app consists of 4 major sections, namely
a) Portfolio
  • a. This list the major stock holding of Berkshire Hathaway from year 1995 to current.
b) A Stock a Day
  • a. Selected stock in Buffet’s historical and current portfolio is selected for a brief stock comment and research.
c) FAQ
  • a. User guide and updates about the app is provided by means of RSS feed.
  • b. Key financial ratios used in stock valuation are listed down one by one in the form of blog powered by RSS.
  • c. Common financial calculation and investment techniques are discussed
  • d. User can use this FAQ as a dictionary to their stock investment planning needs
d) Intelligence
  • a. Notable stock holding changes (current portfolio) will be highlighted here
  • b. Notable news about Warren Buffett will be highlighted here
  • c. Notable news about listed companies which stock are hold by Warren Buffett will be highlighted here
I aim to maintain a neutral position on Warren Buffet’s stock selection. Only objective fact based data is presented and it is up to the user to digest the information provided that can help be more efficient in stock investment, and by that extending to managing their own personal finance.

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

using webservice and php to generate buffett's portfolio view

one of Warren Buffett's stock in his protfolio



Ticker NamePrice SharesMarket Value(Million)Weight(%)
RSGRepublic Services $29.23 10827700316.49 0.62

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Using a webservice call to get stock price

I want to test how to use webservice to get stock information.
For example i want to see microsoft and yahoo
then i use http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/headline?s=yhoo,msft