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A little sanity check during an incredibly turbulent time in the economy. Don’t Quit If you are already out there building your own business, keep at it. If you were all prepared to jump ship from your lousy office job, do it. The nasty little secret is that harder times clean up the pool . . . → Read More: Don't Quit and Don't Sell  2 comments - (Comments are closed)  Entrepreneurial, Investing  Business, Encouragement, Layoffs, Office Job, Sanity Check In my third year of successful (25% or greater profit) stock-picking, I thought it was time to add a sidebar widget to show my current investments. On the right you’ll see where I am currently invested. Most of them are International ETFs and all but one have been making double digit gains for years. . . . → Read More: New feature, My Stocks ETF’s can be confusing for many people. . . . → Read More: What is an ETF? I continue to be astounded at how well the ETFs I bought this summer are performing.I thought they’d be goodI was sure they’d do well, I just didn’t know I’d see this kind of result so quickly. . . . → Read More: ETF Performance The other day, I was reading Loral Langemeier’s new book “The Millionaire Maker’s Guide to Wealth Cycle Investing” as I was getting off the elevator at work. . . . → Read More: Proud to be interested Wow, the ETFs I purchased this summer are spanking the market.FXI: Up 18.2%EWW: Up 20.52%IVE: Up 9.62%Total percent increase, corrected for my share allocation: $15.93%, approximately 60% annualized. . . . → Read More: Loving those Foreign ETFs A couple weeks ago, my rollover transfer from my last employer’s 401K to a dedicated IRA finally completed. . . . → Read More: New IRA Investments, IVE, FXI, EWW I changed my mind and opened college accounts for each of my three kids. Up to now, I’ve been thinking that I shouldn’t do that until I was already maximizing my contributions to every tax advantaged retirement account. . . . → Read More: Open a college savings account anyway A few days ago I posted that I made a 21% after-tax profit from my investment/speculation account. I pay a lot of attention to that account, of course, and deliberately do not pay as much attention to my Roth IRA. I prefer a “buy-and-hold” approach in that account. Interestingly, that strategy paid off even . . . → Read More: My Roth IRA gained 26.57% last year While doing my taxes this weekend, I realized just how well I did on my stock picks last year. Taking into account every trade, I made a profit of 21% after I cashed everything out in December. Even after the capital gain taxes take their bite, I still made a profile of 13%. That . . . → Read More: I beat the S&P by 333% |
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