If you have been exploring the galaxy and haven’t heard of Zecco, you have some great news. For the average traditional investor such as myself who divulges into stock trading only a few times a month, we now have free commission trades.
Zecco.com launched about a year ago and was increasing popular as they offered $0 [...]
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As some of you may recall I wrote my First Investing Lesson about the important of doing research. So now I thought I would write about important of not following the media. I was naive when I learned this lesson, but I’m glad it was one that I learned relatively early in my investment career.
I [...]
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Lets face it a lot of scared investors do not want to manage a property or have their name on a mortgage. But there are still investment opportunities that can earn you an interest well about the normal index fund. There are investment companies that give interest rates of generally 15% and up and can [...]
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Most traditional investors who either buy and sell stocks and mutual funds that like to follow the price of gas or crude oil usually monitor the oil stocks or look at the worldwide commodity prices for either Brent or Light Sweet crude. Although the price of gas typically follows the path of Light Sweet Crude [...]
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Certain blue chips offer dividends. Mutual funds do as well. The deciding factor is whether or not you opt for a cash payement or re-invest the cash dividends in your fund.
Specifically speaking in refrence to my portfolio, my shares of my stocks are sent with a cash payment each time the board approves a dividened. [...]
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Were already on to part 5. For this one I decided not to pick an indicator that people already look at such as property prices or vacancy rates. Instead we need to look at the media sentiment, this is essentially what the media thinks of the real estate market. Because people tend to believe the [...]
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Thank you President Bush and Rep. Pelosi for giving my parents $600 and myself roughly $300 to help stimulate the economy. I haven’t seen any figures at to exactly how many Americans are receiving this financial aid package, but I do know that the stimulus package was at $168,000,000,000. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it?
168 Billion [...]
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Way back when I was a young man, I inquired to my parents as to what a mutual fund was. My dad replied something to the effect of, “Cam, they are a lot less riskier than stocks, but they are stocks”. Interesting, I thought. Was there such thing as a stock that had less risk [...]
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If this is merger between Yahoo and Microsoft is becoming redundant, my apologies. However, I believe that Yahoo! turned down Microsoft’s offer just to raise the bidding ante. As if $44,000,000,000 wasn’t enough, all of us in the blog-o-sphere have suffered 44 billion headaches wondering how this is going to affect us, our marketing campaigns, [...]
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Stock picks are typically something that someone should research on their own or with a financial advisor. However, I have my monthly stock picks that has taken me roughly a week to decipher through.
The Walt Disney Company
About a week ago, Disney reported strong quarterly growth amongst its cable networks and primetime television shows. These include [...]
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