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From Buy-and-Sell to Buy-and-Hold: Four Years of Trading History
It has been a little over four years since I opened my Scottrade brokerage account and started trading stocks. Back then, I was so excited about making quick money from the stock market that I kept the Scottrade trading window open from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm almost every day and didn't really do any [...]
All Gone
The nine items I bought on Buy.com last month were all gone (I bought ten and one was returned later after I found their rebate has conditions that I have to sign up their service to get the rebate). I sold six of them till last Saturday, and three more this week: a 4-port USB [...]
My Best and Worst Money Moves
Since Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity started the best and worst money moves last Monday, many have shared their stories with us and a lot can be learned from their personal experience. Looking back the road of our investment of the past five years, if the best or worst is measured by the size [...]
Amazon.com Buy-and-Sell Update
Last month, I spent more than $300 on stuff that I have no intention for my own use. The ten items purchased on Buy.com throughout October are all buy-and-sell electronic devices (flash drives, wireless adapters, router, hard drive enclosure, and headset, etc.) Except a Bluetooth headset that I later found that was excluded from regular [...]
What Are Those $100,000+ Gains Exactly?
Last night, when I finished the final calculation of our October net worth, I found that we had a net increase of $106,792 in the first 10 months of this year. That was really a surprise as I never expect we can do this well. So exactly where did those gains come from? Here's a [...]
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