If you need a helping hand with trading stocks, bonds or options, then PortfolioRunner may be the trading platform for you. PortfolioRunner allows you to keep track of your financial portfolios and provides you with several investment management tools. Aside from that, there are even personalized stock trade recommendations that you can really benefit from [...]

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to start investing in stocks again, the Dow Jones took another tumble this Wednesday morning, sinking under 11,000 points and losing at least 3% since its rise yesterday. The S&P Volatility Index (VIX), which is often interpreted as the market’s “fear index”, jumped to over 19%. The reason [...]

Not satisfied after Friday’s drop, the Dow Jones took another tumble yesterday, losing 635 points (or 5.6%) and going under 11,000 points for the first time since last November. By the end of the day, the DJIA was standing at 10,810. Other stock indices were not immune: The S&P 500 lost 80 points (or 6.7%), [...]

We knew it’s been a long time coming. We could not have expected the government to keep printing money and raising the debt ceiling without some consequence finally falling down on America. Other countries could only stomach our “IOU’s” for so long. Last Friday, the ax finally fell: the S&P downgraded America’s credit rating from [...]

Regardless of whether you have money invested in the stock market or not, the latest of our market corrections is hard to ignore. If you check newspaper headlines, the predictions are grim: Words like Recession, Depression, Economic Slowdown, and Unemployment are being thrown about at whim. Investment firms are so distraught about the market crash [...]

This month brought quite a bit of additional income from my freelance article writing business. I also finally learned where the majority of my Google AdSense earnings were being generated: from a single HubPages article!

Another month has passed, and many changes have occurred. How did I fare financially? Here is my monthly online income report for August/September 2010.

When choosing between full-service and discount stock brokers, keep in mind the major differences between them, namely, cost, service, and access. Decide whether any of these features are a dealbreaker for you, and then choose accordingly.

It’s been a crappy decade if you’ve been trying to invest and make money in stocks. The tech bubble, the real estate collapse, bank bailouts- for the first time since the Great Depression, long term buy-and-hold strategy did not pay off.