Accumulating wealth is like building The Great Wall, one brick at a time
Category: InvestingBy Sun on Aug 7, 2006 in Stock, Investing | 1 Comment
I received in the mail a notice from Microsoft today regarding their announced share buy back plan. The offered cash price is between $22.50 to $24.75 per share and the offer will expire on August 17, 2006.
Currently I have 200 Microsoft shares, purchased in November 2004, days before their special $3 dividend distribution. Since […]
By Sun on Aug 7, 2006 in Stock, Investing | 0 Comments
I bought another 320 shares of Nortel Network, at $1.99, with some dividend money accumulated in my Scottrade account. This brings the totoal number of shares I owned to 2720. Since early 2002, I have been on and off with NT several times and when I first bought NT in 2002, the shares were traded […]
By Sun on Jul 31, 2006 in Mutual fund, Investing | 0 Comments
BUFSX has been part of my taxable investment portfolio since the beginning of 2002 when I started to invest. Since then, I have been dollar-cost-averaging $100 into this fund every month and the fund’s return was superior: 51.2% in 2003 and 28.8% in 2004.
However, the fund started to lag not only its peers, but […]
By Sun on Jul 31, 2006 in Mutual fund, Investing | 0 Comments
I owned Vanguard Wellington Fund in my IRA account with Scottrade since 2001 and I am very happy with the fund’s performance. The only problem I have is Scottrade.
I have both my taxable account and retirement account with Scottrade for more than five years, and they used to be very good: low fee, online […]
By Sun on Jul 28, 2006 in Stock, Investing | 0 Comments
Though there is one more trading day left for the month of July, the stock market was nothing but volatile. For the past twenty sessions, the Dow has seen triple digits gain/loss 7 times (7th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 19th, 24th, and 28th)!
Yet, despite the huge ups and downs, we are not too far away from […]
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