Merry Everything!

I want to wish everyone a Happy Holiday, and a healthy and profitable New Year.
I also want to thank all my readers for their support. I think I must have the best readers on the Internets. I simply could not run this site without your feedback. In the last 12 months, Crossing Wall Street has received over 800,000 hits. Imagine Woodstock, but everyone with a laptop pointed right here. Scary.
The Buy List is up over 10% for the year, which isn’t too shabby, especially considering all the bearish sentiment we’ve had to put up with. So if you followed my (free) advice, I made you over $1 million (assuming you had $10 million to start with).
I try to make this site as transparent as possible. My picks are here for the whole world to see. I try to be candid about my big winners (like FactSet, Harley and SEI Investments) as I am with my lousy picks (like Dell and UnitedHealth). Let’s hope 2007 will be another “up” year.
There are a few people I want to thank for their support. Barry Ritholtz not only runs a great blog, but he’s been very generous about “spreading the wealth” to me and other bloggers. James Altucher has also linked to me many times through his Daily Blog Watch at TheStreet.com. Also, Abornmal Returns (another great site) has generously linked to me, and so has Charles Kirk at the Kirk Report.
Seeking Alpha has also been a big supporter. John Carney and the gang at DealBreaker run one of my favorite sites, and they’ve been big supporters. I also can’t forget Howard, Lindsay and the crew at WallStrip for keeping investing fun.
Here’s an odd bit of trivia I’ve never revealed before. I came this close to calling the blog Fiscal Graffiti (get it), but I changed at the last minute. Here look, click on www.fiscalgraffiti.com. See! Same thing for Wall Street Crossing.
I’m frequently complimented on the layout and design of this site. I wish I could take the credit, but I had absolutely nothing to do with it. All the credit goes to the very talented Kristin Rule at Callisto Design Studio. Also, Michael Auger is the artist of the little cartoon guy at the top. And lastly, Mark Anderson has been my tireless hoster who has kept this running all year. Thank you all! If you ever need their services, I highly recommend them. Or you can just send them lots of money, they won’t mind.
Finally, I give you this.

Posted by Eddy Elfenbein on December 25th, 2006 at 7:36 am

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