Nick Kraakman

Hello, how awesome of you to read my bio! I'm Nick, a 23 years old MBA student who learned his most valuable lessons outside of university. I have been investing since I was 13 (yeah, I still can't believe the amount of trust my parents must have had in me). After losing half of my money by randomly picking a company whose name sounded familiar, I decided that I needed a strategy. How were others earning money on the stock market?

It didn't took long before I came across Warren Buffett and his down to earth approach to investing: buying financially healthy companies at a discount price. I was hooked and have successfully implemented this strategy over the past few years. During those years I created several ...More spreadsheets to calculate all sorts of things, like the average P/E over the past ten years and intrinsic value estimates. However, they all required manual data input. Isn't there a way to automate this tiresome and error-prone process?

Well, it turned out there is! Google Spreadsheets offers functionality to grab data from websites and import it into a spreadsheet. So I combined all the spreadsheets I had and automated the import of financial data which it scraped from sites like Yahoo Finance and Google Finance. The result of these efforts can be found and downloaded at valuespreadsheet.com! This tool, which I originally created for myself, has helped me to quickly separate potential winner stocks from probable losers. It can do the same for you, so check it out!