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Stocks For Your Kids Series: How to Choose Year 1 Update Year 2 Update Year 3 Update Dear Son, It’s time to look at your stocks again! These are interesting times at our house as you turned 8. Due to my recent job loss there is probably more uncertainty and stress than you have become accustomed to …
Back in May you might remember I decided to take $250 from the Sunk Costs Are Irrelevant coffers and “invest” it in a poker player. Well, the experiment is over. Here’s how it turned out. The single share I bought was spread across multiple events so there was some diversification involved, and the kicker was …
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Stocks For Your Kids Series: How to Choose Year 1 Update Year 2 Update Dear Son, Well, it’s just a few days past your 7th birthday and it seems we’re buried in Chima LEGO’s over here. What strides you’ve made this year in math and reading. The other day you even asked me if you could take …
OK, I know the words investing and poker really should not be in the same sentence for any prudent investor, but who said I was prudent! I play poker occasionally. Mostly small home games where we play a hold’em tournament or a cash game. $10-$20 buy-in’s with re-buys. Small stakes. On very rare occasions I …
Dear Son, Happy birthday! On Sunday you turned 6 years old. What a joy it's been to watch you grow over the past year. It's hard to believe you're almost done with kindergarten. You're really starting to understand the value of money. I love watching you check the coin returns for leftover change wherever …
Back in August 2011, I went on a buying spree of sorts when the market was tanking. I had a lot of cash burning a hole in my pocket, and I went $PENDING! I also promised to re-visit that post in 6 months time. Well, here we are 6 months later. During those 6 …
So, back in December I was invited to take part in the MoneyPros Index Fund Challenge hosted by the fun folks over at MoneyPros. The game was simple. Just choose 3 stocks that you think are going to do the best in 2012. I am by no means a stock expert, but I do trade stocks …
I received an email today from ING Direct Sharebuilder incenting me to download their mobile app. The deal works like this: Download ShareBuilder's mobile app for iPhone®, BlackBerry® or Android™ then make a trade using the app between today and October 28. Once you execute the trade you'll receive a rebate to offset the cost of the trade …
Today, I'm probably going to buy nothing except Sour Patch Kids Extreme. Did you know you could buy these in bulk on Amazon? They are fan-fucking-tastic. I could eat these forever. But, perhaps you were thinking more along the lines of investing since that's what this blog is about? 🙂 I understand. Well, it's looking …
It's time to go fishing. The relevant Warren Buffett quote on a day like this when the DJIA falls over 500 points is: "Occasional outbreaks of those two super-contagious diseases, fear and greed, will forever occur in the investment community. The timing of these epidemics is equally unpredictable, both as to duration and degree. Therefore we …
