From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Living Abroad, A good option?

June 30, 2009

One option that often gets explored when one is planning retirement is moving to a less expensive area. This could mean moving from San Francisc to Oregon or from New York City to New Jersey. A more extreme jump can be moving to Puerto Rico or Central or South America.  All of these can present [...]

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Buying Using Market and Limit Orders

June 22, 2009

This week’s letter brings us back to some really basic parts of investing. When you are looking to purchase shares of stock, there are a few ways to do that. Whether you are talking to your broker, or doing the trading on-line these same terms apply.
The first term is buying at Market. This means you [...]

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A Quagmire of Paper – Tracking Gains and Losses

June 9, 2009

One thing I have noticed since I started doing some online investing is that I get notices all the time, both in my e-mail “in-box” and as flagged messages when I sign in. There are notices for dividends (I like getting those) notices for purchases, sales, quarterly statements for each company, annual reports, etc, etc. [...]

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Dollar Cost Averaging

June 2, 2009

Dollar cost Averaging is a means of investment whereby you invest a set amount of money at regular intervals. For most people this means having a payroll-deduction credited to your investment account. More familiar to a lot of folks is their 401K (or 403B for those in the non-profit or public sectors.) Those plans allow [...]

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