By Sun on Jul 31, 2006 in Mutual fund, Investing | 0 Comments
BUFSX has been part of my taxable investment portfolio since the beginning of 2002 when I started to invest. Since then, I have been dollar-cost-averaging $100 into this fund every month and the fund’s return was superior: 51.2% in 2003 and 28.8% in 2004.
However, the fund started to lag not only its peers, but […]
By Sun on Jul 31, 2006 in Mutual fund, Investing | 0 Comments
I owned Vanguard Wellington Fund in my IRA account with Scottrade since 2001 and I am very happy with the fund’s performance. The only problem I have is Scottrade.
I have both my taxable account and retirement account with Scottrade for more than five years, and they used to be very good: low fee, online […]
By Sun on Jul 31, 2006 in Paid survey, Free money | 2 Comments
I have been doing online paid survey since July 2006 and here’s a list of surveys I completed so far:
Movie survey from SurveySpot, 07/22/06, $3.00
Credit card survey from SurveySpot, 07/26/06, $3.00
IT survey from SurveySavvy, 07/31/06, $5.00
By Sun on Jul 28, 2006 in Stock, Investing | 0 Comments
Though there is one more trading day left for the month of July, the stock market was nothing but volatile. For the past twenty sessions, the Dow has seen triple digits gain/loss 7 times (7th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 19th, 24th, and 28th)!
Yet, despite the huge ups and downs, we are not too far away from […]
By Sun on Jul 28, 2006 in Amazon sale, About me | 0 Comments
I ordered two items today, a disk enclosure for $15.99 AR and a FireWire card for $5.99 AR. Do I really need them? Probably only the enclosure if I have to keep it. The card is definitely to be put up for sale on Amazon, which I plane to do right when I receive it. […]
By Sun on Jul 27, 2006 in Paid survey, Free money | 0 Comments
During the internet boom of the late ’90s, you could find all kinds of money-making websits that pay you to simply click links on their websites, or install a small banner on your computer and let it run when you are surfing the internet. Easy money indeed. I can still remember a couple of names, […]