The Sun's Financial Diary

Sina (NASDAQ:SINA) is one of the Chinese internet stocks I own. I have bought and sold the stock several times in the past. In early March, I purchased the stock again at $21.65 apiece when the overall stock market was heading to multi-year low. Now, 9 months later, the stock has more than double in [...]

Scottrade is a leading online discount broker which offers a wide range of products at very competitive price. If you are considering opening an account with Scottrade and start to invest in the stock market yourself, here’s a good video that will help you get a better understanding of what Scottrade offers. In this video, [...]

The new Chase Sapphire Card is a premier travel rewards card that offers excellent credit card features.  Some of the key benefits of the Sapphire Card include:

Earn 1 point for each $1 spent on purchases.
Earn an additional 1 point for each $1 of eligible airfare net purchases made online through the program booking tool.
There are [...]

I took advantage of an early bonus offer for ING Direct Business Savings Account last month and got an account for myself plus $50 bonus from the one-time offer What I like about the account is not only the decent yield (currently at 1.15% APY) of the Business Savings Account, but also the [...]

Are you using Zecco to trade Forex?
If not, there’s one good reason to try Zecco Forex: For a limited time, you can get up to 20% bonus up to $1,000 for deposit you make into the account!

I have discussed Zecco Forex Trading before when the platform was first introduced in April. However, since I don’t [...]

I have heard LifeLock commercial on radio many times before in which its CEO read out loud his own social security number and challenged anyone to steal his identity. Equally ear-catching in the commercial was their $1 million guarantee. That ’s a lot of money for any victim of identity theft. However, since I don’t [...]

Since I don’t actively bank with Ally Bank any more (I still have a 9-Month No Penalty CD with them though), I don’t check my account as often as I do with other banks. When I did go to Ally Bank website the other day, I notice something that I didn’t see before, as far [...]

I opened an OptionsHouse brokerage account back in June (check out my OptionsHouse review and stock trading experience for details about the broker). The reason for getting yet another brokerage account, I have plenty of accounts already, was that the commission for stock trading charged by OptionsHouse is very low. At $2.95 per trade, OptionsHouse [...]

Now that we settled in Virginia, there are still many things for us to do besides getting to know this area. On top of my to-do list is update our address so mail will be delivered to our new home. With so many active accounts I have with banks, credit card issuers, mutual fund companies, [...]

Amazon.com is now accepting Windows 7 pre-order that can save you 50%  or more on Microsoft latest operation system.
Available Windows 7 products include Windows 7 Home Premium ($199.99, upgrade $49.99), Windows 7 Professional ($299.99, upgrade $99.99), and Windows 7 Ultimate ($319.99, upgrade $219.99). If you purchase full or upgrade versions of Windows Vista Home Premium, [...]