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July 2009 Score Card ? Part I: Net Worth
2009-08-03 17:29:00 What a different one month has made! Given how much better the overall stock market has performed in July (the Dow up 8.6%, the S&P 7.4%, and the Nasdaq 7.8%), I expected a good month for our net worth. However, I am very surprised, and pleased, after finishing the calculation that not only it increased ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus TradeKing $50 New Account Bonus in August July 2009 Score Card ? Part I: Net Worth More About: Review , Net worth
TradeKing National Friendship Day Promotion: Get $50 Bonus When Opening a N
2009-08-03 04:27:00 TradeKing, one of the brokers that I am actively using, is celebrating the National Friendship Day in August with a promotion! When the broker ran the program last year, I think it was quite successful from what I can see. Now the program is back with the same promotional bonus of $50. Here’s what you ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus TradeKing $50 New Account Bonus in August TradeKing National Friendship Day Promotion : Get $50 Bonus When Opening a New Account
Cash for Clunkers Calculator
2009-08-01 18:28:00 I didn’t pay much attention to the “Cash for Clunkers” program (the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) program) because my 2000 Honda Accord is still in pretty good shape (though it has more than 115K miles on it already) and I have no plan to replace it. However, with so much talk about it, I ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Cash for Clunkers Calculator More About: Personal Finance , Finance
Stretching An Entry Level Salary As Much As Possible
2009-07-31 16:03:00 It’s not a secret that entry level salaries aren’t the greatest paying, but college graduates still need to survive and somewhat enjoy their lives. This is why I really wanted to write about how college graduates can stretch their entry level salary as much as possible. Don’t worry because today I ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Stretching An Entry Level Salary As Much As Possible More About: Personal Finance , Finance
Broker Web-Based Trading Platform Comparison
2009-07-29 17:27:00 I bought my first stock nearly 8 years ago with Scottrade, which is also my first stock broker, in 2002 and one that I have been actively using since then. Throughout these years, as more and more online discount brokers emerged, I have also got accounts with other brokerage firms in order to reduce trading ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Broker Web-Based Trading Platform Comparison More About: Investing , Stock , Brokerage
ING Electric Orange $25 Bonus Promotion Code
2009-07-29 02:05:00 Just got this email from ING Direct. The online bank is currently running a promotion for its Electric Orange Checking Account. The promotion will give $25 bonus to each new customer when the following conditions are met: Open an Electric Orange with promotion code EM298 by August 22, 2009; Activate the Electric Orange MasterCard Debit Card; Use the Electric ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus ING Electric Orange $25 Bonus Promotion Code More About: Banking
Weekend Linkage ? July 26, 2009
2009-07-27 05:19:00 I spent most of the time last night and another two hours this morning shredding our documents as we are getting closer to moving to Virginia. Believe me, it isn’t any easy job because we have accumulate more then ten years of bank statements, credit card bills, investment records, and pay stubs. Even though ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Weekend Linkage – July 26, 2009 More About: Roundup
trade MONSTER Offers Investors Great Trading Experience
2009-07-25 17:04:00 trade MONSTER is another online discount broker that generates quite some interests recently. I first noticed trade MONSTER when I compiled the list of discount brokers with the lowest commissions for online stock trading. Actually, if you look at the list, trade MONSTER isn’t really attractive from the point of view of costs. The broker charges ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus trade MONSTER Offers Investors Great Trading Experience trade MONSTER Offers Investors Great Trading Experience More About: Investing , Stock
Federal Minimum Wage at $7.25/Hour ? Chart of the Day
2009-07-24 20:01:00 In case you forgot, today, July 24, 2009, the Federal minimum wage goes up to $7.25/hour from last year’s $6.55/hour. Following is a plot of historical Federal minimum wages from 1939 to 2009 (the blue line). In 1939, the minimum wage was only 30 cents. The next adjustment didn’t come until 1945 when the minimum wage ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Federal Minimum Wage at $7.25/Hour – Chart of the Day Federal Minimum Wage at $7.25/Hour – Chart of the Day More About: Poll , Charts
Stress Testing Your Budget: How to Stay Strong in Tough Times
2009-07-24 16:09:00 Money can be stressful. From earning to managing to spending, money consumes a large part of our lives and can even define how we feel about ourselves and how others view us, and that is during good economic times. When times turn tough, any little cracks in our money handling run the risk of becoming giant, ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Stress Testing Your Budget: How to Stay Strong in Tough Times Stress Testing Your Budget: How to Stay Strong in Tough Times More About: Personal Finance , Finance , Money
Lending Club Loan Portfolio Update
2009-07-23 16:40:00 Nearly five months ago I started to invest through Lending Club in order to add a little bit more diversification to my investments. Since then, I have been steadily building up my portfolio. The process is rather slow though since I can only buy notes on the secondary market, which I sometimes forgot to do ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Lending Club Loan Portfolio Update Lending Club Loan Portfolio Update More About: Alternative , Investing
Discover Current Prepaid Card $5 off Promotion
2009-07-22 17:05:00 Early this year, Discover introduced a new prepaid debit for teenagers, the Discover Current Card . Even though the Current card is designed specially for teens, it gives their parents a great deal of control on the way their children use the cards. The goal is by using this card, parents and teens can work ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Discover Current Prepaid Card $5 off Promotion Discover Current Prepaid Card $5 off Promotion More About: Personal Finance
First Trading Experience with OptionsHouse
2009-07-21 16:29:00 I opened an OptionsHouse brokerage account a few weeks ago after noticing that it has lowered its online stock trade commission to $2.95/trade. That price beats what I currently get from other popular discount brokers, such as TradeKing, Firstrade, and even Zecco. However, since OptionsHouse requires some paperwork (such as a signed form and voided ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus First Trading Experience with OptionsHouse First Trading Experience with OptionsHouse More About: Investing , Stock , Brokerage
Zecco Forex Promotion Code for $200 Bonus When Opening a Forex Account
2009-07-20 20:38:00 I got this email from Zecco some time ago, but since I don’t trade Forex , I somehow forgot about it until now. Early this year, Zecco, an online discount broker known for its zero-commission stock trading, launched Zecco Forex trading platform for currency traders. Now it’s giving up to $200 bonus for each new forex trading ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Zecco Forex Promotion Code for $200 Bonus When Opening a Forex Account
Zecco Forex Promotion Code for $200 Bonus When Opening a Forex Account
2009-07-20 20:38:00 Update: I was informed by Zecco that the promotion code is not transferable. Therefore, the bonus will only be rewarded to those who received the promotional email from Zecco and meet all the requirements. If you didn’t receive the original email, then you are not eligible for the bonus. I got this email from Zecco some ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Zecco Forex Promotion Code for $200 Bonus When Opening a Forex Account Zecco Forex Promotion Code for $200 Bonus When Opening a Forex Account
Practice Stocks and Options Trading with optionsXpress?s Virtual Trade
2009-07-20 16:48:00 I opened a brokerage account with optionsXpress back in 2007 when they ran a promotion that gave $100 bonus for a new account. Since then I have been running an optionsXpress referral program for people who want to receive some incentives to open an account with the broker (you can get $100 bonus, which is ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Practice Stock s and Options Trading with optionsXpress’s Virtual Trade More About: Investing
Virginia Offers Small Loans to State Employees
2009-07-16 19:21:00 but they will come a rather heavy price. Since now I am working in the DC area and will soon be a resident of Virginia , I started to tune my radio to news stations in this area. Early this week on my way back from work, this piece of news got my attention. Virginia Governor announced ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Virginia Offers Small Loans to State Employees More About: Personal Finance , Banking
Tips for Embracing Green Frugality
2009-07-15 20:41:00 There are many different reasons that people opt to live a frugal lifestyle. The main reason, of course, is that they wish to save money. However, people also adopt frugal lifestyles because they wish to reduce waste, live more simply and pursue higher goals than consumerism (such as living a creative life or engaging in ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Tips for Embracing Green Frugality More About: Living
Issues with Ally Bank
2009-07-14 07:09:00 I have talked about Ally Bank quite a lot recently, from my decision to open an account with the bank, to troubles when trying to get a second account, to eventually leaving the bank after only two weeks. It wasn’t a good experience for me, even though initially I thought I could use Ally Bank ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Issues with Ally Bank More About: Personal Finance , Banking
Weekend Linkage ? July 11, 2009
2009-07-12 05:52:00 Do you know exactly one year ago on this day, July 11, 2008, crude oil price climbed to its all-time high of $147 a barrel? Today you can buy a barrel of oil at less than $60, 60% lower than its peak. Oil price dropped like a rock since reaching the peak last year, bottoming ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Weekend Linkage – July 11, 2009 More About: Roundup
Time to Dump Ally Bank
2009-07-11 04:57:00 I decided to end my short relationship with Ally Bank , though not completely. For the two weeks that I banked with Ally, I felt very disappointed about the bank, not only because the trouble it caused during the process when I was opening my second CD account last week, which is very discouraging, ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Time to Dump Ally Bank More About: Personal Finance , Banking , Savings
What a Mess!
2009-07-09 05:52:00 This is ugly! Actually it’s much uglier than I first thought. Last Thursday, I opened an Ally Bank 9-month No Penalty CD account. However, due to some errors in the process, I ended up opening two accounts, not just one as I wanted, each with an initial deposit of $56,000. Since I don’t have that much ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus What a Mess ! More About: Personal Finance , Banking
WT Direct $150 Bonus Promotion
2009-07-08 05:30:00 WTDirect , one of the popular online banks, is running a promotion again that, for a limited time, will give up to $150 bonus for every new account. The bank had run a few similar promotions in the past and from what I can see, the promotions were quite successful in generating interests. The yield of WTDirect ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus WT Direct $150 Bonus Promotion More About: Banking , Savings
Trade Carbon Emission with ETFs
2009-07-08 04:44:00 The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (ACES) on June 26, 2009. The act mandates a 17% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 2005 level by 2020. It also requires that by 2020 more than 20% the nation’s electricity should be generated from reusable sources, ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Trade Carbon Emission with ETFs More About: Investing , Stock
June 2009 Score Card ? Part I: Net Worth
2009-07-06 16:39:00 After three straight months of robust growth of our net worth, which added a total of $148,420.12 to our paper wealth, the gain in June was a little disappointing. Nonetheless, I am still very happy to see that the positive trend has been extended into the forth month, even though the stock market didn’t exactly ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus June 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth More About: Review , Net worth
Weekend Linkage ? July 5, 2009
2009-07-05 16:26:00 We spent more than 5 hours at Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ (it’s not a place you want to live though) last Friday, even though it was the third time we have been there in 10 years. In fact, things haven’t changed a lot at the Aquarium since our first visit in 2000. Back then, ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Weekend Linkage – July 5, 2009 More About: Roundup
Bank of America $25 Bonus for Using Online Bill Pay
2009-07-04 23:24:00 Even though I am a Bank of America customer, I don’t think I got this offer myself directly from the bank. But apparently the bank is giving $25 bonus for using their online bill pay functions twice. To get the bonus, you will need to register with the bank first. Information needed for the registration include ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Bank of America $25 Bonus for Using Online Bill Pay More About: Banking
optionsXpress Platinum Visa Card Offers 12-month 0% Balance Transfer
2009-07-04 05:47:00 Nowadays, you won’t find many credit card issuers who are willing to give you 12 months of free loans (0% APR for 12 months) and even if there are card companies can give you 0% APR for 12 months, they usually charge at least 3% if you use the card to make balance transfer (the ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus optionsXpress Platinum Visa Card Offers 12-month 0% Balance Transfer More About: Personal Finance , Investing
Ally Bank Accounts Fully Functional, But ?
2009-07-02 19:59:00 I just had an argument with the bank that doesn’t make me feel very comfortable. When I opened Ally Bank accounts last week, I deposited only $1,000 in the 9-month No Penalty CD account. That’s just the initial deposit that I plan to add more to later after the account is set up (it doesn’t make ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus Ally Bank Accounts Fully Functional, But … More About: Personal Finance , Banking
A Look at OptionsHouse for Stocks and Options Trading
More articles from this author:2009-06-30 19:34:00 OptionsHouse first came to my attention in April when I compared online discount brokers for their commissions to trade stocks, mutual funds, and options. However, at that time I didn’t get much interest in the broker at that time because back then, the commission it charges was $4.95 per stock trade, which is the same ...Original Post on The Sun's Financial Diary Special bonus offers Citi Forward Card 11,000 Bonus ThankYou Points Lending Club $25 Sign Up Bonus A Look at OptionsHouse for Stock s and Options Trading More About: Investing , Brokerage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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