The Sun's Financial Diary

It’s Cyber Monday and Personal Capital is giving away $20 Amazon Gift Card for the first 3,500 people who signed up today. I have reviewed Personal Capital 401K fee analyzer awhile ago. It is one of the free services offered by Personal Capital which allows its customers to see how much their current employer sponsored [...]

TradeKing used to run similar promotion a lot, even multiple times in a year, in the past. As I remember, the promotion was very popular and usually generated lots of interests, but I didn’t see any in the past year for whatever reasons. So if you have been waiting for a promotion like this to [...]

ShareBuilder is one of the online stock brokers that I mentioned quite often here. Unlike other discount brokers that I am using, ShareBuilder is a little bit different in the sense that you can only get the cheap $4 commission when you use their automatic investment plan. If you want to trade at real time, [...]

Do you want an ING Direct Orange Savings Account or Electric Orange Checking Account? Get rewarded by using any ING referral bonus link to open an account and receive $25 bonus. This product has been around long enough (probably one of the oldest online savings accounts) and I feel that anyone who wants to have [...]

Online bank ING Direct is currently offering $50 bonus for opening an Electric Orange Checking Account. Electric Orange is a paperless checking account from ING Direct. I have featured Electric Orange as one of the best interest checking accounts early last year. But in case you are not familiar with it, here’s a quick look of [...]

Last week wasn’t a holiday week, but the kids stayed at home for four days out of five because of a moderate snow in Northern Virginia forced schools in this region to shut down for three days, plus one student holiday early in the week. The snow was nothing compared to those blizzards we had [...]

Though we are nearly one month into 2011, the deadline to make 2010 contribution to IRA account won’t end until the 2011 tax day, on April 18th this year. So you still have time to make last year’s contribution if you haven’t done so (see how to open an IRA account). And if you are [...]

There aren’t as many new bank account bonuses these days as credit card incentives. If you are looking for some free money for opening a new bank account, here’s an offer from Chase for its Checking Account. From now to January 31, 2011, you get free $100 cash bonus if you open a Chase Checking Account [...]