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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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Learn Options Trading with TradeKing’s Options Playbook

Posted by Sun on June 26, 2009 (5) Comment

When I opened my TradeKing account in 2007,  I also got a book, The Options Playbook, from TradeKing after I expressed interest in options trading. I have bought and sold stocks for several years, but never traded options because I feel that trading options requires a little more skills than buying and selling stocks. Before [...]

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A Brief History of General Motor

Posted by Sun on June 1, 2009 (3) Comment

General Motor (GM), the world’s largest car maker for 77 years until 2008, filed for Chapter 11 protection this morning, the same day its fellow car maker Chrysler could exit bankruptcy. The bankruptcy filing is expected after GM failed to reconstruct its debts with bondholders before the June 1 deadline imposed by the government. In [...]

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Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings and Investment Ideas

Posted by Sun on May 26, 2009 (2) Comment

Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway filed its first quarter 13-F with the SEC last week. From the filing, you may find a few investment ideas from where Buffet is putting his money, as noted by Morningstar. At the end of the first quarter, Berkshire holds a total of 41 stocks in its equity portfolio, with American [...]

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Netflix Benefits from Recession

Posted by Sun on May 15, 2009 (1) Comment

Many industrial groups got hurt pretty badly in this one and a half year long recession. Banks, homebuilders, retailers, just to name a few. However, the recession has also proven to be an opportunity for others to bloom in this environment because when the wallet got tight, we cut our spending: we postpone purchase of [...]

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Take a Big Picture View of the Stock Market

Posted by Sun on May 1, 2009 (3) Comment

The S&P 500 Index lost about 46% between August 2008 and September 2002 when the internet bubble burst.

Then it took the benchmark 5 years to reach a new all-time high in October 2007.

Then there came the subprime mortgage crisis, the collapse of the housing market and the financial market, eventually, the recession. In about one [...]

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Stock Trades Since October 2008

Posted by Sun on April 30, 2009 (5) Comment

I am by no means a trader. I am not always looking for stocks to buy. However, since last October when the stock market started to sink, I have been active, relatively, on trading stocks. In fact, stocks I bought and sold since October 2008 are more than the total number of trades I did [...]

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Prosper Relaunches, Becomes Prosper Loans Marketplace

Posted by Sun on April 29, 2009 (2) Comment

Prosper, once the largest operator of peer-to-peer lending until it shut down its operation in October 2008 amid regulatory scrutiny, has relaunched yesterday and now it’s called Prosper Loans Marketplace, with a twist on how to lend and borrow. However, since the Prosper is still in the process of completing registration with the Security and [...]

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IPOs on Deck: Rosetta Stone (RST) and Bridgepoint Education (BPI)

Posted by Sun on April 13, 2009 (5) Comment

The U.S. IPO market is pretty much dried up. In 2008, a total of 43 companies went public, only 8 in the second half of the year, according to a report from Renaissance Capital, as the crisis in the financial market forced companies abandon plans to go public. So far in 2009, only 2 initial [...]

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