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Archive for October, 2006

How To Pay Off Your House In 3 Years!

Monday, October 30th, 2006 Posted in personal finance | 3 Comments »

Previously, I had complained about the content in CNN's Money's Millionaires in the Making. Its always a rehash of rich people who're saving their extra money and are going to ... Read more..

Dollar May Weaken

Monday, October 30th, 2006 Posted in Currency, Foreign Stocks, REITs, alternate investments | 1 Comment »

I regularly read the 'Daily Pfenning' by Charles Butler of Everbank.com.Today's issue was especially bearish on the dollar.The Yen finally started to move back up hitting a one month high ... Read more..

Invest In Porn!

Saturday, October 28th, 2006 Posted in alternate investments | 3 Comments »

While reading the recent issue of Business 2.0, I came across an interesting article on investing in the Porn Industry. Apparently there's this company called Adultvest that puts investors and ... Read more..

More Free Trades At TDAmeritrade

Saturday, October 28th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

I recently realized I had a few thousand dollars worth of stock bought on margin in my trading account. The brokerage is charging me over 9.5% interest on that money!!! ... Read more..

Left Behind Games

Saturday, October 28th, 2006 Posted in Stocks | 1 Comment »

I recently read an email about how Left Behind Games[ticker LFBG.OB] was one of the next hottest gaming companies in town.The email said it qualified on Chuck Jaffe's stupid investment ... Read more..

Home Prices Fall 9.7%: An Explanation

Thursday, October 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Rather than paraphrase the explanations and pretend I'm intelligent, I'll just paste them below. These were taken from today's Wall Street Journal.U.S. new-home sales jumped unexpectedly in September by 5.3%, ... Read more..

Millionaires in the Making

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

CNN has a monthly feature titled "Millionaires in the Making". Every month, they feature a young couple who make over $120,000/yr and have 'amassed' a nice nest egg, usually between ... Read more..

On Going Naked

Monday, October 23rd, 2006 Posted in Gambling, Options, WCI | 10 Comments »

In a previous post on WCI, I had mentioned that I had sold some March 2007 Calls. When you sell a call and you own the underlying stock, its ... Read more..

WCI Gets Smacked Down!

Friday, October 20th, 2006 Posted in Options | No Comments »

Basswood Partners, a hedge fund sent a letter to WCI asking for representation on the board. Its owns about 5% of WCI stock."Since becoming a public company almost five years ... Read more..

Guess I was wrong!

Friday, October 20th, 2006 Posted in Foreign Stocks | 1 Comment »

I was wrong about the price of gas rising after OPEC announced a production cut. The market decided that the OPEC members were just going to keep pumping oil and ... Read more..

Got My Japanese REITs

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 Posted in Foreign Stocks, Gold/Silver, REITs | No Comments »

Finally managed to buy the Japanese REITs yesterday. The Tokyo Stock Exchange is about 14-16 hours ahead so you have to submit it and check on it later to see ... Read more..

OPEC Cuts Output

Thursday, October 19th, 2006 Posted in Oil and Gas | No Comments »

Christian at InvestorGeeks.com thinks that Oil will stay in the $50-$60 range for a while and that the Dollar won't continue it slide.Opec just reported that its cutting production by ... Read more..

Are Timeshares A Scam?

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 Posted in alternate investments | 6 Comments »

Thanks to Lazy Man, I've been reminded to write on whether Timeshares are a good investment or not.Some of the reasons the Timeshare companies give are1. Its a good investment. ... Read more..

Why the Dollar Will Collapse!

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 Posted in Currency, Kiyosaki | 4 Comments »

A few days ago I posted an article on why the dollar hasn't collapsed. Robert Kiyosaki has a good counter-argument on why he thinks it will.The Last Days of ... Read more..

Investing In Japanese Real Estate

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 Posted in ADRs, Foreign Stocks, REITs | 7 Comments »

In a previous post I had mentioned that a Japanese REIT was going IPO. I was wondering how I could get in on the action. It seems like a good ... Read more..

Why the Dollar Hasn’t Already Collapsed

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 Posted in Currency | No Comments »

MSNBC has a good explanation on why the dollar is still holding up against the other currencies. Even though I'm bearish on the dollar for the next few years, its ... Read more..

Investors Bail On Condo Market in Florida

Monday, October 16th, 2006 Posted in WCI, housing bubble | No Comments »

Apparently some builders are so desperate, they've started suing buyers who are walking away from their deposits. Several of my friends have received letters stating that the builder will be ... Read more..

WCI Finally Shows Weakness

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted in WCI | No Comments »

As I've posted several times before, I'm bearish on a stock WCI.Today it finally showed some weakness and was down over 3% on a day when the Dow and Nasdaq ... Read more..

Bank of America Announces Free Online Trading

Friday, October 13th, 2006 Posted in trading | 3 Comments »

According to Bloomberg.com"Bank of America Corp., seeking to attract new clients, offered free online stock trades to customers with accounts of at least $25,000, sending shares of discount brokers lower.The ... Read more..

Its Bubblicious!

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 Posted in housing bubble | 2 Comments »

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