February 4, 2012

Exchange Traded Funds to Make a Splash in 2007

Exchange Traded Funds made quite an impression in 2006 and ETF’s look to make and even bigger splash in 2007. The ETF is a great thing if you want to get into many a mutual fund but don’t want to deal with going through a management firm. Most management firms make you join with a [...]

Trade For Free For 45 Days

If you’ve ever wanted to take that $2000 that’s been burning a hole in your pocket and play the markets, now may be your best shot. TD Ameritrade is offering 45 Days of Free Trading if you open an account with them and fund your account with $2000. I personally don’t use TD Ameritrade so [...]

Google Passes $500

OK, so this post really isn’t going to help you save money, but how could we not write about it. Google, Inc aka GOOG jumped above $500 in early morning trading today and looks like it’s going to close above the $500 mark as well. That’s right, it’s nearly 6 times what it was when [...]

Berkshire Coughed, are You Listening?

For those of you who follow Warren Buffet’s every move and the moves of his company Berkshire Hathaway you may be interested in learning the companies newest stock shifts in the past few months. In their usual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Berkshire didn’t show any holdings in GAP, the clothing dealer [...]

What is Short Selling?

Short Selling is the opposite of buying long. When you buy long, or what has turned into just buying shares, you buy for the long term, usually above the actual value of the stock in the thought that the value of the company will increase over time and increase the value of your long term [...]

Bill Gates Built The Ultimate Business System

Bill Gates, founder and chairman of Microsoft, Inc (MSFT), has built the ultimate business system. For those of you wanting financial freedom take note. As junior at Harvard University he and childhood friend took a an already developed technology and built it into the world’s number 1 operating system. Number 1 by a long shot, [...]

What to do in a Down Market

Commodities are down, stocks are down, the housing market is down. Sell, Sell, Sell!? Wrong. Don’t jump on the bandwagon of sellers and get rid of everything you have just because it’s the in thing to do. The stock market, although driven in the long term mainly by financial facts like earnings and earnings growth [...]

Buying Stock

In years past buying stock was reserved for the rich. It was expensive and difficult to track and buy stocks. Sure you could go down to your bank, talk to a certified broker, and buy some shares. But that would cost you a bundle and make any small profit you made negligible if you were [...]