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Current Bank & Broker Promotion Bonuses
If you are looking for a little incentive to open a bank or brokerage account, there are a few promotions currently running which will give you as much as $50 bonus for a single new account. Check them out. Maybe there’s something you need
TradeKing $50 bonus for a new account: Open an account [...]
Good Day On Amazon.com
Orders just kept coming in.
Today alone three items I listed on Amazon.com were sold, bringing in a profit of $110.00. All of them are books I no longer need. So far I have sold 11 items on Amazon and there are still 13 up for sale. Looks like I may need to find some new [...]
Buffalo Small Cap: Keep It Or Dump It?
BUFSX has been part of my taxable investment portfolio since the beginning of 2002 when I started to invest. Since then, I have been dollar-cost-averaging $100 into this fund every month and the fund’s return was superior: 51.2% in 2003 and 28.8% in 2004 according to Morningstar.
However, the fund started to lag not only [...]
Vanguard Wellington Fund Closed To Brokerage Firms
I owned Vanguard Wellington Fund in my IRA account with Scottrade since 2001 and I am very happy with the fund’s performance. The only problem I have is Scottrade.
I have both my taxable account and retirement account with Scottrade for more than five years, and they used to be very good: low fee, online [...]
Paid Surveys I Completed
I have been doing online paid survey since July 2006 and here’s a list of surveys I completed so far:
Movie survey from SurveySpot, 07/22/06, $3.00
Credit card survey from SurveySpot, 07/26/06, $3.00
IT survey from SurveySavvy, 07/31/06, $5.00
Stock Market’s Roller-Coaster Ride
Though there is one more trading day left for the month of July, the stock market was nothing but volatile. For the past twenty sessions, the Dow has seen triple digits gain/loss 7 times (7th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 19th, 24th, and 28th)!
Yet, despite the huge ups and downs, we are not too far away from [...]
Buy and Sell
I ordered two items today, a disk enclosure for $15.99 AR and a FireWire card for $5.99 AR. Do I really need them? Probably only the enclosure if I have to keep it. The card is definitely to be put up for sale on Amazon, which I plane to do right when I receive it. [...]
Paid Survey. Will You Do?
During the internet boom of the late ’90s, you could find all kinds of money-making websits that pay you to simply click links on their websites, or install a small banner on your computer and let it run when you are surfing the internet. Easy money indeed. I can still remember a couple of names, [...]
Why Buy Used?
I got another item sold on Amazon today. This time, it was a cable kit, which I got for $1.00 AR, and the price I asked for was $5.35.
While my sale on Amazon has been going great so far, I can’t help thinking why people want to buy used stuff, especially computer hardware and electronics. [...]
Sold on Amazon.com
A couple of years ago, my Linksys router was damaged because of a power glitch. Without any backups, I had to buy a new one at the regular price, which was much more expensive than those you would get when they were on sale.
Since then, I always bought a backup one when the price [...]
Fight with Ebates.com
My Ebates.com account was created nearly three years ago. However, I haven’t used it for a while (for more than two years) until recently I re-discovered this site and decided to use it whenever possible. I already spent the money, why not get some back?
So early last month, I opened two Sharebuilder.com accounts, one for [...]
