Archive for January, 2006

Seagate and Hard Drive Sector

Check out Seagate’s (STX) 3-month graph. It’s so nice and beautiful, similar to Apple’s last year. STX up 57 cents today, and went up another 40 cents after-markets.
Look at Maxtor’s (MXO) 3-month graph. Two months ago it was sub-$4. Today, it’s up 250%.
But the biggest surprise is Western Digital (WDC). They’re up 85 cents today [...]

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Blue Chips for Cheap

Intel 21.28
BMY 21.33
BAC 44.24
C 46.01
IBM 80.85
YHOO 34.87
*Price as of closing on 1/24/2006

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

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Friday, January 20th, 2006

Blog Networking Database

I’m going to work on this new project and create a database of financial blogs on the net. I’m going have a page with a massive amount of links to blogs/websites.
Phase I: Gather all the links
Phase II: TAG game (explaination to come)
Phase III: (to be announced)

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Business Path

I want to start a business that begins from little (low capital and worries) and grows into something big. A lot of successful businesses start out really small, like Google. They started with two kids working in a garage. I’m going to put a bit more time on this blog. Hopefully [...]

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Seven Financial Planning Diseases

Seven financial planning diseases
Tips to recognize and overcome weaknesses in your investing style
By Scott Reeves
Forbes
Updated: 3:44 p.m. ET Jan. 15, 2006

The basics of personal finance are simple: Spend modestly, save, invest for the long term, protect yourself with insurance and don’t pile up credit card or other debt.
Surprisingly, many people don’t know the basics, and [...]

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Financial Education in Demand

A great article on Scottrade News. Perhaps some of us can hold a seminar together for these kids.
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Boomers Want Advisors’ Help With Kids
As baby boomers prepare for retirement, they want from their financial advisors than just competitive investment returns. Boomers want planners to help them teach their children about finances, something this free-spending generation [...]

Friday, January 13th, 2006

Rental Property Update #10

After I bought my tenants a new stove/oven they haven’t called since, and I hope it stays that way. I heard of a lot of problems from my friends’ rental properties from repairs to absence of rent payments. I happened to be very lucky on this end. My tenants have sent me rent payments before [...]

Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Storage Sector

Not long ago I told my friend the storage sector is going to make a huge come back. I wasn’t kidding, and here are the results.
Seagate Agrees to Buy Maxtor for $1.9B on Dec 21, 2005 and Maxtor shot up 40% to $7 a share. Just when you think it’s over…
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=MXO&t=5d
Maxtor [...]

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Ixia Plunges on Q4 Preliminary Report

Ixia expects its 4th quarter earnings to drop to 7 to 8 cents a share, announced last Thursday. This drop is mainly caused by Cisco’s cutback in spendings, but it seems like the shareholders are overreacting. Heavy Selling activity started after hours on Thursday and continue on Friday morning. The stock price [...]

Sunday, January 8th, 2006