Investing

TradeKing Doubles $50 Cash Bonus For New Accounts to $100!

August 1, 2011

TradeKing, one of the best online discount brokers has launched a $100 cash bonus for customers that sign-up for a new TradeKing account.  If you recognize this promotion, it’s because TradeKing does this sort of thing often (this time DOUBLING the cash bonus) but unfortunately, it’s restricted to new accounts only. In order to qualify [...]

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ShareBuilder $50 New Account Bonus

July 29, 2011

Even though our economy has yet to really get the ball rolling, Wall Street has seen a lot of recent success and investing has slowly but steadily picked up in 2011.  When trading stocks, it’s important to find an online discount broker with great tools and a low cost and that’s exactly what ShareBuilder provides.  [...]

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Prosper Raises Interest Rates by 2.5 Percent

July 20, 2011

As an investor in both Lending Club and Prosper loans, I keep an eye on the interest rates that both p2p lenders charge. Interest rates for p2p lending present a bit of catch-22 for the industry. High rates attract investors, but turn away borrowers. Low rates do the opposite. So I was a bit surprised [...]

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OptionsHouse $150 Refer A Friend Bonus + Year Subscription of Financial Times

July 15, 2011

Now that I have my debt under a bit of control, I’ve always wanted to invest a little bit into the stock market.  Perhaps it’s my gambling nature, but looking at the rate of return on a lot of blue chip stocks, it seems like there’s money to be made so long as you have [...]

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How To Roll Over a 401(k) Into an IRA

July 14, 2011

Last week we looked at whether you should roll over your 401k to an IRA when you leave a job. Having left my job a month ago, I’ve decided to go forward with a 401k rollover and transfer the retirement account to an IRA. The good news is that rollovers are really easy to do. [...]

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Should You Roll Over a 401(k) to an IRA

July 6, 2011

I quit my job last month. After more than six years investigating the financial audits of public companies, I’ve decided to go back to the private practice of law. So after a summer sabbatical, I’ll be returning to my old firm in August. And that raises one important question—should I roll over my 401k to [...]

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OptionsHouse Review: An Online Discount Broker with Professional Grade Trading Tools

June 21, 2011

What distinguishes one online discount broker from another? As more and more online brokers enter the low-fee arena, they each try to distinguish their trading services and cost structure from all the others. OptionsHouse has two features that set it apart from other discount brokers: (1) professional grade online trading tools, and (2) stock trades [...]

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Are Bitcoins a Scam?

June 11, 2011

A good friend of mine and I were talking the other day and he asked me if I had ever heard of Bitcoins.  Never having read or seen anything about this type of currency before, I was amazed to hear that this was a potential online currency system and it was gaining serious traction.  Once [...]

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3 Easy Ways to Invest with Vanguard

June 3, 2011

Recently I reviewed Betterment, an online tool that makes investing in stocks and bonds very easy. As easy as Betterment is to use (I opened an account to give it a try before writing the review), however, I did have one big complaint – cost. In response to the review, Jon Stein, the CEO of [...]

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