All Entries in the "Personal Finance" Category
Seven Survival Skills
I am currently reading “The Global Achievement Gap” by Dr. Tony Wagner, after seeing him speak at the North Carolina Education Summit in Raleigh, NC a few weeks ago. I highly recommend reading this book if you are at all interested in education policy, school change, achievement gap between classes or countries, etc. Certain aspects [...]
Who is the CFO of your family?
When I started brainstorming for this article, my primary purpose was to discuss “who manages the finances in your family?” Upon, further review, many people have discussed this topic at great length, and have also included the role of CFO to include finances, family, parenting, cooking, fulfillment, etc. Some have referred to it as the [...]
Personal Financial Statement Template
There are many tools on the world wide web that can aid us in our personal financial lives. Microsoft has many templates that may be utilized to organize our lives and to help you Run Your Life Like a Business. One basic item that every adult should know how to construct is a personal financial [...]
WeeklyStockShackers September 6, 2009
WeeklyStockShackers – StockShackers are stocks that meet weekly requirements based on technical analysis based proprietary scans. We use weekly indicators because we are focused on people with busy lives. Our goal is to return a 10% gain within 1 week (5 trading days). Our StockShackers are for people using small amounts of capital; $2,000, $5,000 [...]
StockShack Weekly Commentary September 5, 2009
Shack-A-Stories 1. Gold Glitters, Bonds Boom – Gold moved higher this week on strong volume. GLD, the gold EFT, closed at $97.53 up 3.90% on the week. GLD has not seen volume this bullish since the week ending 06.04.09 when gold made its last attempt to surpass the coveted $100 mark (or $1,000 for actual [...]
Introducing the StockShack
Kicking off September 5th StockShack will begin publishing it’s commentary for Saturday morning reading. Our commentary will focus on 3 ½ major areas: 1. The overall market and economy – what happened in the market and economy that week and its affect on the major market themes, 2. Medium-term 401(k) trades – changes/exchanges we are making [...]
Goldman Sachs – Buy or Beware?
I read articles at cnbc.com daily and today I noticed the Fast Money Halftime Report asks readers: “Buy Goldman Ahead of Earnings?” The report went on to say that GS is up today after Bank of America (BofA) analysts upgraded the institution to a “buy” and raised its price target to $175 (currently trading around [...]
