Archive for the ‘Finances’ Category

Fun with Stock Collars

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

I've been messing around with paper trading at Think or Swim for the past few months.  I read an article about using Stock Collars with LEAPs and the ability to find trades that have 0% chance of losing money.  It is really possible?  I think it is when you use ...

.ASIA Domain names

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

As part of building a portfolio of domain names I attempted to purchase a bunch of .ASIA domains last week.  Dot ASIA domains were available until yesterday at 12am.  They were available by a process they called Landrush.  Basically, you apply for a certain domain name during this period and ...

Diversifying my investments

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

I write mainly about real estate investing on this blog.  I may have mentioned my other investments in some very old posts.  I have begun to research some newer and older investment vehicles. Stocks The stock market is something that I'm not very good at.  I had my first brokerage account at ...

What to do now?

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

I got most of my money back from the Tucson fixer upper sale closing.  The big question is what do I do with the money? I could buy more real estate, although I can't find anything that makes sense. I could get a vacation home and do the vacation rental thing.  This ...

My first post on Richdad.com

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

The richdad forums switched over to a new look last weekend.  Included in the look was new forum software.  With this new software I was able to find my first ever post on the Richdad forums.  =============================================== Posted: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:32:11 PM Hello, I'm new to this forum and have just read ...

Got my corporate line of credit today and $600

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Today I went into the bank to sign my loan docs.  I was approved for a $50,000 line of credit at prime + 1.25% on stated income.  I got answers to some of the comments that were made on my previous post about this. This line of credit is personally guaranteed by ...

Is pet insurance worth it? Revisited

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

Last year I wrote a post titled, Is Pet Insurance Worth it?  My conclusion at the end of the post was that pet insurance was not worth it.  However, last Sunday my husky was diagnosed with Immune mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA) which is a potentially fatal disease.  As of this ...