Just an update to the community. Everyone has been doing a great job with their articles. Here are a couple of the examples of first place Google rankings:
Bailouts cause problems
Bailout report card
Oracles train set
Surprising buffet acquisition
Buffet strikes again
Over analyzing Buffet railroads
I’m ready to start trading options. It’s probably a mistake; I don’t really have a clue what I am doing.
I’ve read quite a few of the blogs, and working on this project with TradeKing has given me lots of information, however so far I have not been successful in making money.
Using their example (IBM AB), I understand that I can buy 1 contract (100 options) of the underlying option for IBM. I understand that if I think the underlying stock is going to go up that I should place a “call”. I also learned that my strike price (in this particular options play) should be the price that I want to be ‘in the money’.
I used TradeKing to do my first option trade
I’m interested to learn more about these advance investment strategies. In general as an investor I like to bet on either the stock going up or down. I also don’t want to actually own the underlying stock. My hope with options trading is that I’ll be able to leverage my capital for larger plays.
Disclosure: Jalali Hartman is CEO of Yovia. His firm is engaged in a marketing contract with TradeKing. This blog is a true account of his experience trading options with TradeKing and is not a promotion of either IBM or TradeKing.
This is not the first time I’ve owned a Ford. It’s also not the first time I’ve owed shares in Ford (NYSE:F).
I bought at $7.63 which looks like it might be high - it was after the announcement of some $1B in unexpected profits.
I also just bought the second Ford vehicle of my life. A big old F-250 with 179,450 miles. It is a simple vehicle, and after about $1k in repairs, it is almost brand new.
It will be interesting to see how both my new truck and my new stock do this week. So far so good!
The federal government may be taking this stimulus stuff too far.
According to Michell Malkin a federal credit is now available for the purchase an electric vehicle. The catch is this - when combined with some state incentives, it may cover the cost of the vehicle entirely.
We thought cash for clunkers was the ultimate waste of taxpayer money, but as usual we were too optimistic. Thanks to the federal tax credit to buy high-mileage cars that was part of President Obama’s stimulus plan, Uncle Sam is now paying Americans to buy that great necessity of modern life, the golf cart.
The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,500 for the purchase of an electric vehicle, and when it is combined with similar incentive plans in many states the tax credits can pay for nearly the entire cost of a golf cart. Even in states that don’t have their own tax rebate plans, the federal credit is generous enough to pay for half or even two-thirds of the average sticker price of a cart, which is typically in the range of $8,000 to $10,000. “The purchase of some models could be absolutely free,” Roger Gaddis of Ada Electric Cars in Oklahoma said earlier this year. “Is that about the coolest thing you’ve ever heard?”
The golf-cart boom has followed an IRS ruling that golf carts qualify for the electric-car credit as long as they are also road worthy.
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