50,000 Visits

I just realized that some time yesterday I crossed the 50,000 visits (as defined by SiteMeter.com) threshold on this site. When I started this blogging back in April 2003 I never imagined I'd have as much traffic as I get now. Currently I'm averaging 300 visits per day and 660 page views per day. It wasn't long ago that I was averaging well under 100 visits. At least now I'm at the point where the ads are covering my hosting costs plus enough extra to buy some trinkets.

I'd love to get my average up to 1,000 per day by the end of the year. That sounds ambitious but I figure if some bloggers are getting 100,000 to 200,000 per day, like InstaPundit, I should be able to get 1% of that. Although I have to say that I've been surprised at the lack of interest in the stock market by the general population. (Feel free to help me out by spreading the word to any people you know that are interested in the markets.) Here's a graph of my monthly visits since May, unfortunately the server that my counter was on crashed in April so you won't be able to see the growth for the full 12 months:

Too bad I don't own any stocks with charts like that!

Thanks to all of you who have this site bookmarked, on your blogroll, on your MyYahoo! page, in your newsreader, etc. Here's to another 50,000 hits.

P.S. I am gonna finish my Trading 101 series in the next few months.

P.P.S. I'm always open to your feedback on how I can improve the site.

P.P.P.S. I'm gonna upgrade to Movable Type 3.1 some time in the next couple of weeks and hopefully do a redesign shortly thereafter. I've had this theme too long and it's time for something new.