Investing
How to Spot Trading Signals in Stock Charts
In this INO educational video, Adam Hewison from INO explains how you can spot something that are out of ordinary from your stock charts and turn them into profitable trades.
Though the analysis is done with INO Market Club chart, you can easily apply what is taught in this video to any stock chart you are [...]
Lending Club Adds Yield to Maturity Data to Notes
I logged in my Lending Club account today to buy a few more note, then I noticed something that’s apparently new in the Note Trading Platform.
It’s a new column of data called (click the above screenshot to enlarge). If you are not familiar with Yield to Maturity (YTM), then you can check out the definition [...]
Bought 600 Shares of Citigroup
Well, I didn’t get it when the stock was traded below $1 a share for the first time ever, I actually got in a little early.
I sold 360 shares of HTX that I bought on December 4 last year (made a little profit from the trade) and used (part of) the money to buy [...]
Is the Stock Market Like a Tracking Poll in Politics?
President Obama is definitely trying very hard to boost the nation’s confidence. After his massive economic stimulus plan failed to impress investors about the prospective of a speedy recovery, the President himself came out today to suggest that stocks at the current level are cheap enough such that “buying stocks is a potentially good deal” [...]
Variable Annuities: The Fee Factor
In today’s environment, “fee transparency” is the mantra for all kinds of financial products. Unfortunately, it’s been slow in coming to variable annuities.
Some real progress has been made with simple, transparent, low-cost products. But until greater consumer value is widespread, here’s a primer on how to peel away the layers of an annuity’s fees so [...]
ShareBuilder Promotion: $25 Bonus to Open a New Account
Are you still interested in ShareBuilder?
If you are, then you can get $25 bonus when opening a new account. This offer is only good for joint, individual and custodial accounts, not for IRA or ESA accounts. The bonus will be credited to your new account within four to six weeks after the first transaction is [...]
My Lending Club Portfolio
I wasted little time in building up my Lending Club portfolio.
Only a few days in the peer-to-peer lending business, I already have, believe it or not, 20 loans (notes) in my portfolio 8 of them are $25 loans and the rest are $50 loans at a total value of $794.68. Right now, I [...]
Learn How to Use Stop Effectively to Profit and Preserve Your Capital
Are you using stop in your trading to make money, and more importantly, to preserve your capital if the trade doesn’t go your way? In this educational video from INO, you will know what the three widely used stops, dollar stop, percentage stop, and chart stop, are how they work. The video will also teach [...]
Gold and Silver ETFs
As I mentioned early, gold has made a tremendous run lately. The main force behind the gold rally is the deterioration of economies around world. Despite the passage of the $789 billion economic stimulus package over the weekend, gold price keeps climbing up after the holiday. Currently spot gold is traded at $967 an ounce, [...]
Random News: Northern Trust to Close 17 ETFs, More Bank Closures, and $1,000 Gold (?)
In the exchange-traded fund (ETF) world, things have happened fast and furious. According to an article on Financial Planning, a total of 434 ETFs were launched in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, a very bad year for stock and mutual fund investors in general, another 164 new ETFs were introduced, as financial firms try to [...]
