Investing

Track Stock Portfolio in Real-Time with Google Template

Posted by Sun on November 17, 2009 (2) Comment

What are you using to track your investments?
I have been using Quicken Home & Business for investment tracking for years. It is a powerful and convenient tool that does a lot of other things than tracking stocks and mutual funds. However, the convenience comes with a price tag of $100. It’s not cheap for sure. [...]

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Bought a Few Stocks Today

Posted by Sun on November 13, 2009 (2) Comment

I forget when was the last time I traded stocks. It must have been at least a few months ago because since I started this new job in June, I barely had any time during the day for *my own business* , but today I made a couple of purchases: one IPO [...]

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Buy Foreign Stocks: E*Trade vs. Fidelity

Posted by Sun on November 12, 2009 (2) Comment

When E*Trade launched its global trading platform in 2007, I saw it as an opportunity to finally be able to buy some internationals stocks that are not otherwise available to retail investors in the U.S. At that time, Chinese stocks were as hot as they could be and buying Chinese stocks seemed to be the [...]

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How to Open an OptionHouse Account

Posted by Sun on November 7, 2009 (2) Comment

As you may know, discount broker OptionsHouse is currently running a promotion which gives 100 commission free trades for every new customer with $3,000 deposit.  This is a good deal if you can get the most out of the offer, even though trading 100 times in 2 months (the free trades will expire 60 days [...]

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Schwab Launches Extra-Cheap ETFs

Posted by Sun on November 6, 2009 (0) Comment

One of the biggest advantages of Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) over traditional mutual funds is that ETFs usually cost much less to own because of the way ETFs are structured. Also helping to reduce the cost is that not before long, all ETFs are passively managed, meaning that they all track their respective index, minimizing the [...]

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I-Bond Rate for November 2009 – May 2010 Is 3.36%

Posted by Sun on November 5, 2009 (2) Comment

The last time I wrote about I-Bond interest rate was last May when the Treasury Department set the total earning rate of Series I-Bond issued from May to November to 0.00% due to the negative annual inflation rate, which has already affected the contribution of 2010 401(k) plan.
Even though that I-Bonds purchased in the past six [...]

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Firstrade Trading Platform Review

Posted by Sun on November 2, 2009 (0) Comment

Early last week, I took a look at Scottrade trading platform because it’s the broker that I use the most for stock trading (not that I trade a lot). As you know, Scottrade isn’t my only stock broker. In fact, it is one of many brokerage accounts I own. Another *old* account I have is [...]

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OptionsHouse Promotion Code for 100 Free Trades

Posted by Sun on October 31, 2009 (3) Comment

OptionsHouse is one of the discount brokers that I have an account with.
I opened the account in June when I found that it charges only $2.95 per stock trade, much less than other brokers I use (Zecco offers free trade, but the requirement is rather high for small investors). However, it disappointed me when I [...]

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Transfer Fund to Scottrade Brokerage Account Is Easy

Posted by Sun on October 30, 2009 (1) Comment

The stock is down pretty badly so far today. For some investors,  this is an opportunity to buy stocks at a better price, given that the market was down four out of the six trading sessions. Suppose that you see a stock that you have wanted to buy and today it finally reaches the price [...]

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Join Prosper, Get $50 Free Money to Start Lending

Posted by Sun on October 29, 2009 (1) Comment

Prosper, one of the earliest players in peer-to-peer lending, was quite last year and early this year because it failed to meet regulatory requirements. It wasn’t allowed to keep operating until it was cleared by the SEC. Its chief rival Lending Club, on the other hand, was quick to get the OK from the regulator [...]

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