The Sun’s Financial Diary

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 [...]

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 [...]

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+ [...]

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 [...]

To celebrate the holiday and appreciate the support from everybody who read, comment on, and link to the posts in the past year, I am running an annual giving away of $200 Amazon.com gift certificates in the coming week, from December 16th to 22th.
The giveaway consists of two parts:
The first part is a daily $20 [...]

winner of the Lunar New Year celebration give-away!
The post has received a total of 33 comments and a random generator picked comment #16, WH from My Personal Finace Blog. WH, please check your mailbox for the $28 Amazon.com gift certificate. Meanwhile, I’d to thank everybody who stopped by and left a comment, making this the [...]

In a couple of hours, Lunar Chinese New Year will arrive and 2007 is the Year of

That’s right, it’s the Year of the Golden Pig, the symbol of good luck and fortune. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everybody, especially readers of this Diary, a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous 2007!
And to show my [...]

Early this month I ran an Investor Psychology Contest for this Thanksgiving Holiday. The contest was to make a guess of today's closing value of the Dow and winner with the closest guess will get a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate that I bought with the $20 INGDirect bonus from two unknown referrals. The contest received [...]

And we have the following entries (the projected change was based on the closing value of the Dow on November 6th, at 12105 points):

Trent
12304
Up 199 points

Fiance Buff
11989
Down 116 points

Binary Dollar
12105
No change

Jonathan
12247
Up 142 points

everysec
12232
Up 127 points

Robert
12313
Up 208 points

Dave
12200
Up 95 points

Michelle
12178
Up 73 points

 
It seems that we are very optimistic about the market. Let's wait till November 22nd [...]

Since now the election is (almost) behind us, at least an uncertainty is removed for the stock markets and that may make guessing where the markets will go two weeks from today a little easier. So if you do have a number on your mind and like to share with us whether you are optimistic [...]