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	<title>Geographic Independence &#187; Brokerage</title>
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		<title>My IRA: goodbye Fidelity, hello ThinkOrSwim</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might gather from reading this blog, I've been doing lots of research into options and options trading strategies.  I've just recently decided that it was time to position myself for the next step:  putting what I've learned into use on more of my family's investments.  A large chunk of our portfolio is in Fidelity IRAs, so for me, this meant completing the paperwork to move over to one of them to a ThinkOrSwim IRA.]]></description>
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		<title>A very nice option: self-directed brokerage in a 401k plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've recently finished a year-long stint on my employer's "401k Committee".   We'd been searching for a new 401k plan provider in order to lower fees paid by both the company and individuals, as well as increase participants investing options.  One thing we quickly learned was that many 401k providers are now offering plans that allow participants to opt out of the administrated, standard mutual-fund plan and fully control their assets using a "self-directed brokerage" option.  This, in effect, gives you IRA-like control over your investments while still staying within the plan.]]></description>
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		<title>$50 credit for new TradeKing accounts</title>
		<link>http://geographic-independence.com/50-credit-for-new-tradeking-accounts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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!]]></description>
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		<title>Moving our GI portfolio to TradeKing</title>
		<link>http://geographic-independence.com/moving-our-gi-portfolio-to-tradeking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last posts about picking a brokerage talked about how my wife and I had decided to go with ShareBuilder on a temporary basis, but were now looking to switch to somewhere else.  I know it has taken many more months then we first envisioned back then, but in the last week we've gotten off our fat asses and started to transfer our GI portfolio to TradeKing.]]></description>
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		<title>TradeKing does not provide API access</title>
		<link>http://geographic-independence.com/tradeking-does-not-provide-api-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've had a brief e-mail conversation with the customer support team over at TradeKing.  I can now confirm that they do not offer any API access for data downloads or trading instruction uploads.]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the choice of brokerage to use when trading options</title>
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		<comments>http://geographic-independence.com/revisiting-the-choice-of-brokerage-to-use-when-trading-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Zecco to cease 10 free trades for accounts less than $25,000!</title>
		<link>http://geographic-independence.com/zecco-to-cease-10-free-trades-for-accounts-less-than-25000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just checked my e-mail and saw that I had received an e-mail from Jeroen Veth @ Zecco Trading.  The e-mail states that as of March 1, 2009, Zecco will cease to provide 10 free trades per month to accounts with a portfolio balance of $2,500.  Instead, accounts will need to either have a portfolio size of at least $25,000 or make 25 or more trades per month.]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing my &#8220;capitalist&#8221; rankings by starting to trade call options</title>
		<link>http://geographic-independence.com/increasing-my-capitalist-rankings-by-starting-to-trade-call-options/</link>
		<comments>http://geographic-independence.com/increasing-my-capitalist-rankings-by-starting-to-trade-call-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I placed my first ever order for an options trade today which I think bumps me up a notch on the capitalist side of the capitalist vs. frugality discussion common to so many personal finance blogs these days. :-)  Seriously though, it's been a month or two learning process to where I felt comfortable doing doing this.  Here's some of the things I learned along the way.

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		<title>Our brokerage decision and a corresponding cash flow plan for 2009</title>
		<link>http://geographic-independence.com/our-brokerage-decision-and-a-corresponding-cash-flow-plan-for-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://geographic-independence.com/our-brokerage-decision-and-a-corresponding-cash-flow-plan-for-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about my wife's and my thoughts regarding factors to consider when picking a brokerage to use for investing the initial funds we'll dedicate to achieving our geographic independence goal.  I ended the last post about those factors with a promise to write about the result of our research and the decision we've made.   Well, we've made that decision, as well as a bit of a plan for moving money around, and I want to write it all down so we don't get confused about what we've agreed to.]]></description>
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		<title>What we considered in picking a brokerage for our non-retirement trading &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://geographic-independence.com/what-we-considered-in-picking-a-brokerage-for-our-non-retirement-trading-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://geographic-independence.com/what-we-considered-in-picking-a-brokerage-for-our-non-retirement-trading-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 07:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davmp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In part 1, of this series I talked about the top 6 things we've considered during our struggles to identify a brokerage to use for our initial investing process (as purposely opposed to trading) in our quest toward hitting our geographic independence goal. This post provides the other 7 of the the full list of 13 considerations.  Keep in mind that this means all of these were less important to us than the first 6.]]></description>
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