The primary reason for putting money into 401K or traditional IRA account is for the current tax benefit. However, if the current tax benefit is small, it may not make a lot of sense to stuff money into your IRA account. Obviously, we don’t know what the future tax rates will be, but my best …
At 20s & 30s, most of your friends from childhood to college start to take very different roads in their lives. Some people get married right after college or even after high school. Some people go on to get a master’s, Ph.D., or a professional degree. Some people take up a job after college. Lives …
Money mainly serves two purpose. It serves as a medium of exchange, and a storage of wealth for one’s past labor. Understanding what money is, especially the paper money in modern days, is extremely important for preserving one’s own wealth. If you don’t know how paper money is created or destroyed, you can save money …
Natural resources are commodity, meaning that there is no added value at all, besides its intrinsic value as being the material (such as metals or energy) or the commonly consumed products (such as pork, wheat, coffee). Because there is often no added values, they are probably the least “fashionable” investment that you can find. It’s …
There are two types of metals for investment: precious metals as opposed to base metals. Precious metals include gold, silver, platinum, and some other less known materials such as ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, and iridium. Base and/or industrial metals include copper, nickel, aluminum, zinc, lead, and iron/steel. The reasons for investing in precious metals and …
An Intro To Investing In Precious and Base Metals Read More »
As of last Friday on June 9, 2006, my networth & portfolio looks like this: Category Net Value Control/Leverage My Company 18.4% 80.3% My Home 20.9% 29.8% Stocks/Cash 60.7% 60.7% For the explanation of why the percentage numbers don’t sum up to 100% in the column of Control/Leverage, please read my post A Different Percentile …
Here is probably the standard list of dividend stocks that pays 4.0% or above that you may find from other sites. The table is based on Jun 16, 2006 Friday’s closing price, using the last paid dividend projected forward for one year which is the way Yahoo display the dividend yields in the basic information. …
When I used to daytrade long time ago, I learned some trick from a real dot com story (sorry, I can’t find the link now). The story is about army of traders going against market makers of the stock market. A market maker of the stock market bring together the buyers and sellers of the …
Buy and Sell Your Extra Shares To The Market Makers Read More »
Alright, changed my mind again after backing out. Picked up a couple of stronger mining stocks. Spent about 33% of my readily available cash, or 18% of my total cash, or 8.6% of possible cash if I decided to mortgage my house, while at the same I am borrowing cash overseas to increase my total …
My Portfolio Went On A Last Minute Shopping Spree Read More »
I recall filling those questionaires provided by financial advisors, asking whether I like more income investing or more growth investing. Initially, I didn’t really understand the question. I told the financial advisor, “you know, I just want to have good return. I don’t really care whether it’s from income investing or from growth investing.” She …
