Archive for July, 2006

Buffalo Small Cap: Keep It Or Dump It?

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 […]

VWELX Closed To Brokerage Firms

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 […]

Paid Surveys I Completed

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

Stock Market’s Roller-Coaster Ride

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 […]

Buy and Sell

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. […]

Paid Survey. Will You Do?

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, […]

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