TradeKing, the brokerage we use for the trades written about on this blog, is willing to give $50.00 to those opening new accounts through their referral program. While the referral program has historically given $50 to those who did the referring, between now and August 27, 2009 they’ll also give the new account holder (that’s you) $50 too!

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Just a brief note to record that on the 3rd, I adjusted our AA covered call by buying back the AA HL ($11 strike) options and selling replacement AA HO ($13 strike) options for a net debit of $1.33255 (including commissions).

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It’s been quite awhile since I posted an update on our progress toward our geographic independence goal – by which I mean what is our GI-qualified income and how does it measure up to our plan for hitting our GI goal?

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Continuing their quickly dropping trend, Ally Bank has dropped their OSA yield down to a 1.75% APY from the 1.85% it was less than two weeks ago. However, the yield on the No Penalty CD held constant at 1.90% APY.

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