Archive for March, 2007
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
If you're a rate chaser or follow what rates the banks are offering, you'll know that ING Direct's rates are not competitive at all. Their 4.50% APY is lower than Emigrant Direct and HSBC Direct which pay 5.05%. Also in the category of no fee and no minimum accounts, it's ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
I lost all my blogroll links so if you want to be on there or were on there, send me an e-mail at: hejustlaughs attt gmail dottt com
The reason I formatted it with attt and dottt is that I heard the newer spambots WILL harvest e-mail addresses in the form ...
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
Here's an interesting paper on the topic of sending stock spam e-mails.
His conconclusion is that it's worthwhile for these spammers to send out these e-mails as there are enough gullible people out there to fall for them and temporarily drive up the price. Likewise it isn't profitable to buy penny ...
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Finally switched over to wordpress as you can see. I was able to import all my posts but some of the permalinks have changed so I'm going to have to modify the 404 page to explain. There are gonna be a lot of bugs which I'm going to have to ...
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Google's 10-K is one of the most interesting 10-Ks I've ever read.Check it out at:SEC WebsiteThey define what they'll do about Google Checkout once the 0% seller fees expire at the end of this year: "Beginning January 1, 2008, we plan to charge merchants who use Google Checkout to process ...
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
I got a $50 Barnes and Noble gift card from a sharebuilder promotion I did awhile back. I'm thinking about picking up some finance books. Anyone want to recommend any good ones?Also, I'm thinking about moving this blog over to wordpress, I already have it installed. I just have to ...
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
I rarely buy clothing but the colder weather's been getting to me and my old winter jackets are really worn out so I picked up this jacket from amazon for $39.99. Watch it get really really warm by the time the jacket gets here.
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
Every time I write to Sogoinvest about why GTC (Good Until Cancel) orders are not available they keep replying and saying it'll be available within 2-3 weeks. I mean, is it really that difficult to offer GTC orders? It's tiring to place the same order everyday and hope the price ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Yield curves that is...In a normal yield curve, shorter term investments have less yield than longer term investments. Why? The investor who buys longer terms is essentially being rewarded for his risk of taking on a longer time frame.Right now the market is haunted by an inverted yield curve, meaning ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
I wrote a REALLY long post (honestly) and my browser crashed. I'm too pissed/annoyed off to rewrite it.It basically went something like this:I gots an e-mail from ING Direct to open one of their new nifty products called 'Electric Orange Checking' which pays 4% APR on balances on $0-$49,999 and ...
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