Archive for December, 2007

My Little Christmas Gift

Posted by Sun on December 21, 2007 (6) Comment

I usually don’t get Christmas gift. Not that I don’t want one, but nobody gives me, including my wife. We give each other gifts at anniversary as well as on birthdays, but not Christmas. This year, however, I did get a little Christmas gift, a Pocket Loox N100 portable GPS navigator. But it wasn’t from [...]

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Celebrating the Holiday with $200 Cash Giveaway: Last Day

Posted by Sun on December 20, 2007 (22) Comment

Well, the week-long daily giveaway is winding down and this is your last chance to win a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate. Yesterday, Chengdi Bao won the contest by making the closest call so far: 1 point from the actual closing number of the NASDAQ at 2601! Amazing. Maybe I should hire him to predict the [...]

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Free Money: $100 Bonus When Opening an OptionsXpress Account

Posted by Sun on December 19, 2007 (9) Comment

Spotted this deal on FatWallet.com and it seems to be an easy money just for the holiday

If you open an OptionsXpress account and fund it with at least $500 before December 31st, they will give you a $100 bonus. From the offer page
In order to qualify for the $100 offer, account application must [...]

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Bought 2000 Alibaba.com Shares

Posted by Sun on December 19, 2007 (4) Comment

At first, I was very excited when Alibaba.com announced its IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early November, but then only to be disappointed by a regulatory procedure which blocks any purchase by US investors of any foreign IPOs within the first 40 days of trading. At that time, I thought I [...]

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Celebrating the Holiday with $200 Cash Giveaway: Day 4

Posted by Sun on December 19, 2007 (21) Comment

Two more days to go for the week-long 2007 Celebrating the Holiday with $200 Giveaway event and more and more readers are participating. So far two readers have won a little prize (a $20 Amazon.com gift card). Yesterday, Kris made the closest guess of the closing number of the Dow. His prediction was 13,250 when [...]

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