Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
Read this article first.
Ok, I am confused. What kind of bonds are being held by Buffett? Is he holding just US Treasuries? Is he holding intermediate-term corporate bonds? Inquiring minds want to know because Inquiring minds bought a mix of TIPS, intermediate-term government bonds, general US Treasuries (in a sweep account for my IRA) and [...]
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Without getting into it, I’ve been traveling for work and I get sick of looking at a computer so I’ve been doing very little but vegging out with soccer. (As well as suffering migraines in the office from eyestrain.) So expect posting to remain light.
People have left some interesting comments regarding my odd lot post. [...]
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Sounds so very English doesn’t it? As if in some way I was fixing something broken or euphemiscally describing filling up a idiosyncratic gas tank.
But I’m actually talking about odd lots of stock, which are lots of less than 100 shares. I got a funny letter in the mail from my brokerage account last week. [...]
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So about three weeks ago I posted about my Happy Stock Portfolio Allocation. I was pretty confident that I was on cruise control, but oh how wrong I was.
In the post I mentioned something about selling my GME holdings and I successfully liquidated my shares at a price that gave me a very good rate [...]
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By far I have the worst schadenfreude. But I cannot help but laugh at Accenture’s stock trading at zero briefly during the market plunge today.
If you lived in DC and worked in IT contracting for the federal government, you’d know why I keep giggling.
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I think I’m finally done messing with my stock portfolio for a while. It’s only my IRA account and so all the active trading I was doing will cease for a while. I haven’t included my old ESPP account here at all (which has had a 30% gain.)
I’m holding onto:
AMAT
BRKB
C
GE
GME
INTC
KO
NWL
QCOM
PG
TSM
TXN
As you can see, I am [...]
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This isn’t a book review, though these remarks are in reaction to reading the book.
Many years ago in high school a friend of mine recommended Lewis’ first book, Liar’s Poker. Growing up in the ’80’s, it seemed like Liar’s Poker was the book that went with Wall Street
, the movie that made Gordon Gekko a [...]
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The class is free. Not sure if it’s open to anyone from the DC metro area, but it probably is. The class is located at the Arlington Library on Quincy Street, which is new and very nice. (It opened in the last 10 years so it’s light an airy for a library.)
From Virginia Cooperative Extension:
Investment [...]
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I have access to Financial Engines through my company. I like to check in with them every 6 months or so. I feel like this year’s economy is really in upheaval, what with Greek debt, a weak job market and overhyped government bonds.
Unfortunately, I never blanket move out of a mutual fund for another one. [...]
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Last week I heard a story about NPR’s Planet Money buying $1000 in a toxic asset. It was a fascinating story, one that’s going to evolve over time.
You can name the asset since they haven’t yet. (Today is the last day to enter their contest!)
Interesting stuff. It’s all about the risk.
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