A Blog About My Life’s Lessons

A while back I read an article on money.cnn.com about FREE online tools for tracking personal finances and tracking network. The article identified the following websites as good and secure locations to track your finances.

Yodlee MoneyCenter
Mint.com
Geezeo
Wesabe

Taking a step back, in the past I’ve used Microsoft Money to track my personal finances.  However, I just never liked […]

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I purchased a few shares of Qualcomm stock on Friday at the opening bell for $45.  I bought it for a number of reason, which I will explain later.  First, I want to share with you the good timing.  The QCOM stock just happened to get upgraded that same morning by Oppenheimer & Co. analyst […]

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I’m happy to announce that my employee 401k has turned positive for the first time this year! I was very surprised when I saw the data (see image).

To be exact, it is now up 1.2% for year. At one point it was down over 6%.  I’ve been pretty pleased in its performance, considering the broad market was […]

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I’m not a professional stock picker, I follow it more than anything because I don’t have much money to invest in individual stock (Most of my assets are in mutual funds in my 401k). Plus, I have  a poor track record.  Usually when I buy a stock it goes down.  For example, I finally get […]

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Its official, I’m going to be a dad again.
  
Based on the doctors visit yesterday, we are going to have a Christmas baby! That’s right, the due date is 12/25/2008. Now the odds of us having it on Christmas day are slim.  I don’t think our doctor wants to work on Christmas day and neither do we.  […]

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