Entries from February 2009

Revisiting the choice of brokerage to use when trading options

February 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment

We’ve been in a sort of limbo this week, not quite yet having thought through how to modify our investing plans as a result of recent events. We still want to put our cash to use but are just not sure what brokerage to use to do it.

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Wise to Invest with Vanguard Brokerage Services? (Investing School, 4/20/12)
Evaluating Merrill Edge as a Brokerage Firm (Investing School, 4/30/12)
How to find a Forex broker that supports scalping (Forex Trading TV Video Blog, 4/22/12)
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Tags: Brokerage

Addressing risk by increasing liquidity

February 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments

We’ve decided to stop making extra principal payments on our loans. Instead we’re going to direct that money into our GI portfolio to increase our liquidity. Here is our reasoning.

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Better Decision Making Under Stress (Mercenary Trader, 3/23/12)
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Tags: Loans · Personal Finance

Geographic Independence: January 2009 update

February 6th, 2009 · 4 Comments

It’s time to pull out the ruler and measure our progress toward our geographic independence goal as of the end of January, 2009. By which I mean, how much income did we have and how did that match up to the plan?

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Who Has More Leisure Time: High or Low Income Earners? (Value Investing, 4/27/12)
Is the Middle Class Dying… or is it Thriving? (Wall Street Daily, 4/13/12)
Basing Debt Service Ratios on Gross Pay (Michael James on Money, 5/7/12)
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Tags: Geo Ind Goal

FNBO savings yield drops to 2.60% APY

February 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

FNBO Direct sent me another customer service e-mail yesterday. Their online savings account rate has dropped and is producing a yield of 2.60% APY as of February 2, 2009.

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Tags: Savings

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