Archive for December, 2007

Random News: ShareBuilder Lowers Real-Time Trading Commission and Firstrade Account Transfer

Posted by Sun on December 18, 2007 (0) Comment

Good changes are coming to ShareBuilder after ING Direct bought the online discount brokerage firm a month ago.
An email from ShareBuilder over the weekend infomred me that starting December 17th, the cost of trading securities at real time at ShareBuilder will be at a flat fee of $9.95 for both market and limit orders. ShareBuilder [...]

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Celebrating the Holiday with $200 Cash Giveaway: Day 3

Posted by Sun on December 18, 2007 (21) Comment

This is Day 3 of the first part of the week-long 2007 Celebrating the Holiday with $200 Giveaway event. The first two days of this giveaway went quite well and one lucky winner has already received a $20 Amazon.com gift card. To participate today’s giveaway, please leave a comment with your best guess of
What will [...]

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We Have Our First Contest Winner!

Posted by Sun on December 17, 2007 (1) Comment

Congratulations go to Super Saver who made the closest guess of today’s closing number of the Dow Jones index in the first $20 daily giveaway contest.
Today is another volatile day of the major indices and the Dow finished the session down another triple-digit. Looking back the trading days in the past couple of months, 100+ [...]

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Using XTF’s Rating Tool to Research ETFs

Posted by Sun on December 17, 2007 (2) Comment

A while ago, I had a post on using XTF’s ETF Finder to find ETFs that belong to the same sector. I like that tool because it allows me to see all the competitors of a particular fund and gives me all the information I need on one page.
Recently (less than two months actually), [...]

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Celebrating the Holiday with $200 Cash Giveaway: Day 2

Posted by Sun on December 17, 2007 (18) Comment

This is Day 2 of the first part of the week-long 2007 Celebrating the Holiday with $200 Giveaway event. To participate, please leave a comment with your best guess of
What will be the closing number of the Dow Jones index on December 18, 2007?
And to participate the second part of the giveaway and get a [...]

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