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Recent Buy-and-Sell Activities on Amazon.com
No, I haven’t forgot my little business on Amazon.com, though it has been quiet for a long time. The main reason is I wasn’t able to find lot of cheap stuff (those that won’t cost me too much if at the end I have to keep them myself) that also have re-sell values. Since I [...]
June 2007 Score Card — Part II: Passive Incomes
In addition to price appreciation, the other investment objective we have is to generate passive incomes from our investments. To that end, I have been investing quite heavily in dividend generating stocks and funds. Last year, our investments brought us more than $9,000 in interests, dividends, and capital gains. For the first half of 2006, [...]
June 2007 Highlights
Following are some highlights of June 2007 in case you missed them.
1. First Trading Experience with Zecco
It’s great that Zecco doesn’t charge commission for stock trading, but they still have a lot to do to make their system reliable and less confusing.
2. My Personal Saving and Investing System
Though a little bit complicated with so many [...]
June 2007 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
June turned out to be another solid month as our nest egg continued to grow in the past month, most of them coming from investments in our taxable accounts, despite a down month for the equity markets. For the month, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 219 points, or 1.6%, to close at 13,408 on [...]
My First Day at New Job
was quite boring actually.
I showed up at 9:00 am this morning (that was quite early according to my standard) and spent the whole day doing nothing but sitting there and reading some document that doesn’t require much time to finish. No computer, no internet. It’s a big company and, as expected, everything is slow. I [...]
New Week, New Job
Tomorrow, after two weeks of lay off, I will start a new job at a company that’s not really in my area.
The start up company that I worked for in the past two years last month decided to significantly reduce man power as the product we developed failed to win any customer (at least till [...]
May 2007 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
Reporting time again!
The momentum we saw in April continued in May as we experienced another record-setting month. This time, the S&P 500 Index joined the Dow to close at the highest level in its history. For the month, the Dow gained 491 points, or 3.74%, the S&P 500 rose 44 points, or about 2.96%, and [...]
What are My Investments?
The Digerati Life is hosting this week’s Money Question. The question that was asked this time is
What are your investing strategies and how have you decided to allocate your money? What does your portfolio look like?
I have discussed several times in the past about my portfolio, the most recent one was in April after I [...]
Top 5 Reasons I Started and Continue A Personal Finance Blog
Early last week, Lazy Man at Lazy Man and Money shared 10 ways personal finance blogging has helped him to get better financially. Looking back at the short history of this blog, I found myself also a beneficiary of blogging. So what are the reasons to get me into blogging in the first place?
1. Nothing [...]
A Half-Millionaire?
When I posted our latest net worth early this week, I didn’t realize that we have kind of reached a milestone until I was reminded by FMF at Free Money Finance. For the first time ever, our net worth (excluding house and cars related items) has passed the $500,000 or half a million mark. Having [...]
