The Sun's Financial Diary

I mentioned early this month that I bought 600 shares of Citigroup (C) on the day when the stock was traded below $1 for the first time ever. From where the stock is traded now (it closed at $3.08/share on March 18, 2009), it seems that my bet is a good one, even though I [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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” [...]

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 [...]

Do you watch Jim Cramer on Mad Money? Do you follow his recommendations on what to buy and sell? If so, how are those recommended stocks are doing?
Gurus like Jim Cramer and Suz Orman are often seen on TV offering their advices to audiences on where to invest their money or how to handle their [...]

Recent pricing changes at Zecco.com makes it almost impossible for small investors to trade for free. If you are looking to switching brokers, there are a few alternatives to Zecco that charge relatively low commissions for stock and option trading.
Now we know Zecco will soon be Not ZEro Commission COst for many small investors after [...]

Looks like the Wall Street doesn’t have too much confidence in Barack Obama. Why?
The day after he won the presidential election, November 5, 2008, the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 486 points. Today, the day Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the county, the Dow tumbled 332 points, the worst inauguration day [...]

This isn’t what I asked for when I started to buy Bank of America (BAC) shares through their DRIP program at ComputerShare (ComputerShare reviews). I was going after their dividend. At $1.29 dividend payment in 2008, BAC made a small, but nice contribution to my passive income last year.
But it doesn’t look like that dividend [...]

When I first learned that Nortel Networks (NT) has sought bankruptcy protection this morning via @MarketWatch on Twitter (you can follow me on Twitter), I wasn’t really surprised (OK, a little bit). Wasn’t it just a month ago when reports came out that the company was seeking legal advices for a possible filing? Though NT [...]