I have decided to move some of my investments around. Currently the vast majority of my savings are in a Real Estate based mutual fund. I’m going to transfer up to half of that money into an upcoming project with the firm I work with. The project has an annual return of 24% (annually) and should take [...]
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Admit it, we all have our own personal favorite stocks. Whether its because they made you a fantastic return on investment or you worked for that company, we all have the ones we hold dear. /cheesy
To begin this post, one of my most “traveled” stocks is Delta.
On just about every flight I take inside the [...]
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Your credit card is going public on the NYSE according to an article out of CNN’s website.
With many different stocks typically raising $100-200 million per initial offering, this one plans to be huge. VISA Credit Card Services is planning on raising upwards of $18billion as some estimates have shown. With many stocks that we have in our [...]
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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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Every so often I’ll be browsing some personal finance blogs and I will see somebody who said they would rather have $Xx/month then $Xxxxxx as a lump sum. Sometimes they are correct in which they would prefer and other times they are not even close and clearly making a fool of themselves.
Present value [...]
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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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I will never forget my first investing lesson, not because the effects hurt me that much, but because it is a simple mistake that a lot of people make. From that day on I vowed never to make such an avoidable obstacle a problem again.
It was in the early summer of 06, I was [...]
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Forget about your ancestor’s traditional way of buying and selling Fortune 500 stocks on the Dow Jones or Nasdaq. Move over 401k and Pension, the 24/7 worldwide Foreign Currency Exchange has arrived. The term is on every website and every blog. It’s Forex- The Foreign Currency Exchange.
So what is traded? Currency. All types of currency [...]
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