TradeKing Promotion + Taxes & Mobile Apps
January 28, 2011
The TradeKing promotion they’re running this month is ending soon. It’s pretty similar to bonuses the discount broker has offered in the past – open a brokerage account and make a trade – and they deposit a $50 bonus into your account. Stocks and Taxes When I was on the TradeKing site looking for more info about [...]
ShareBuilder Review
January 2, 2011
ShareBuilder Review 2011 ShareBuilder is an online brokerage, offering discount stock trades via automatic investments for only $4. This online discount broker makes it simple and afforable to start investing. Even if you don’t have much available to invest each month ShareBuilder helps your investment go farther. It’s dividend reinvestment and fractional share purchase abilities [...]
Scottrade Review
December 5, 2010
A Scottrade review is something I’ve been meaning to do after seeing the online brokerage rank pretty high in the SmartMoney survey of discount brokers. With their competitive fees, low minimum requirements, and wide range of investment options Scottrade is an attractive option for many investors who like to manage their own portfolios. Scottrade Fees I’ll [...]
Options Trading 101
October 15, 2010
Options trading is a strategy that some investors use as a way to hedge against a decrease in the value of an asset they own shares in, such as a stock. Having an option contract in place can help limit your losses in the event your stock loses value, however, there are also risks involved [...]
5 Lessons I Learned From ETrade
October 3, 2010
The online broker Etrade, is one of the top discount brokerages online today and for several years I had the opportunity to learn from them. Etrade was one of the biggest clients of the software group I was hired into right out of college so I got to see some of the behind the scenes [...]
Online Broker Reviews 2010
September 29, 2010
Online brokers are reviewed on a variety of categories every year by Smart Money magazine. This year’s brokerage reviews came out at the beginning of the summer and the results show that competition is good for you and me. Brokerage Competition Competition has gotten extremely hot between all of the online brokerages. The financial crisis [...]
3 Simple Ways to Invest $500 Online
September 22, 2010
This is a guest post by Ramsay at moneyedup.com. You can enter to win $500 by subscribing to their blog. Visit moneyedup.com to enter the giveaway. In the past, investing money was limited to a few vehicles, most of which were accessible by working with a local company. Today, however, the Internet opens numerous investment [...]
Stock Analysis Ratios
September 1, 2010
Stock analysis across multiple stocks is much simpler if you take advantage of the insight you can glean from a collection of stock market ratios such as earnings per share, price earnings, dividend yield, and debt to asset ratio. The performance and market conditions for each company behind shares of stock you’re comparing will vary, [...]
ING Direct Promotion Holiday
July 2, 2010
Opening a bank account probably wasn’t on your list of things to do before the holiday weekend but if you don’t have an account with ING Direct and have thought before about opening one then today would be a good day. You’ve probably read about Electric Orange checking promotions and ShareBuilder promotions in the past [...]
ShareBuilder Stock Market Investing Survey
May 21, 2010
ShareBuilder, an online discount brokerage, ran a survey of investors at the beginning of this year to find out how the volatile stock market had effected their perception of investing. The criteria that ShareBuilder used was: “investors between the ages of 21 – 65 who have an investment account that enables them to buy stocks, funds and [...]
