This is my final post on Reuters.com. Before the end of the year, I’ll have transferred to a new position within Reuters, to a division that serves institutional money managers. I am excited about this opportunity, but I know I’ll miss the dot-com world. I’ve been writing columns online about investing since 1999.

I’ve met many of you, through e-mail, and often in person at such events as the Money Show and chapter meetings of American Association of Individual Investors (AAII). Getting to know my readers always kept me clear-headed about individual investors during the height of Wall Street scandals and the ascent of now New York Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer. While many depicted these investors as lambs waiting to be fleeced, I saw something quite different: successful, resourceful, astute, curious and independent people who understood the difference between hype and solid analysis, people who continually sought to learn more and who, whether as individuals or through clubs or organizations such as AAII or National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC), were willing to teach others.

I wish you all continued success in your endeavors and hope you will continue to let Reuters.com serve you. Thank you for having given me such a rewarding opportunity.

P.S. As a parting memento, here are links to a three of my best-received articles, a tutorial series I published on various occasions, most recently in early 2005, that gives prospective on why stock prices are what they are.

• Why $30 and not $130? 2/28/05)
• Lost illusions (4/1/05)
• The choice is yours (4/23/05)