Interview with Kas

By Sean | Dec 29, 2006

I was talking to my coworker, Kas a few days ago and she told me she made $18,000 in the past two months. I asked her what she was doing. She said that she had this side business in addition to her day job. I learned that she was selling Christmas ornaments in the mall. [...]

Be Careful on Giving Unsolicited Advice

By Sean | Dec 28, 2006

I love reading up on financial news and learning more about personal finance. And I like helping people as well. Sometimes, I give advice to my family and friends. Although they would listen for the most part, they almost never act on what I tell them to do. It’s interesting that [...]

New Year’s Resolution

By Sean | Dec 27, 2006

My Plans for 2007:
Move GrowingMoney blog to my own domain. This will give me more flexibility in the web design and I will also have my own web space to host files (photos, PDFs, etc.). Feel free to provide help for those with your own domain.
Contribute to my SEP-IRA. I have open a SEP-IRA with [...]

Year-end Coming

By Sean | Dec 26, 2006

As the end of this year is approaching, what are your new plans for the new year?

Merry Christmas

By Sean | Dec 25, 2006

Merry Christmas to all.

Word of the Day: Options

By Sean | Dec 19, 2006

Options
A contract giving an investor a right to buy (call) or sell (put) a fixed amount of shares (usually 100 shares) of a given stock (or indexes and commodities) at a specified price within a limited time period (usually three, six, or nine months). The purchaser hopes that the stock’s price will go up (if [...]

SAI Is a BUY

By Sean | Dec 14, 2006

SAI has been dropping for a few days and closed at 17.96 today. At under $18, it’s a screaming buy, and at under $19, it’s a good buy.
Upside
SAIC Report 8% Increase in Profits
SAIC Stock buyback up to 40 million shares
Still new to the market, large potential increase in institutional holdings.
Low P/E.
A good defense/homeland security play.
Winning [...]

Heelys IPO

By Sean | Dec 7, 2006

I spent 30 minutes watching the roadmap of Heelys and did some research on the company.
My summary: Good short term play because of the hype, but its long term prospect is questionable because the wheel-in-a-shoe may become a fad.
Heelys IPO gets rolling
Heelys looks to stay on a roll with IPO
Cramer’s ‘Mad Money’ Recap: Heelys Worth [...]

Status Update

By Sean | Dec 7, 2006

I have been very busy lately with work and personal stuff but I am still very active in the stock market. I have made many short term trades but just haven’t had the time to post. I hope to do a post about my stock performance later on this month. I’m considering a tablet laptop [...]

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