Archived entries posted in "Portfolio"

A Day Of Readers Requests - Including Will Several New Car Loan Inquiries Hurt Your Credit Score? And Why Do You Not Disclosure Your Identity?

Hey, looks like you’re new here! I blog about money. Saving, investing, insuring, getting, and using it! See my “about me” page for more info! To keep up to date, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or get the blog in your email! Thanks for stopping by!I haven’t […]

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Financial Advisors Are A Dime A Dozen (Or Less) - Get A Legion Of Them (FOR FREE) To Help You If You’re Unsure Of Financial Waters

I first got into investing back in 1997 when I had a summer job that paid a few more bills than I needed to pay, in a town that had too few things worth paying for. So I opened up a ROTH IRA in the first “investment” branch I could find which was both […]

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How To “Automagically” Change Your $2,100 Tax Stimulus Check Into $2,310 In Seconds!

So the tax stimulus rebate checks are coming and everyone is trying to get a piece of the pie. I wrote an article yesterday about car dealerships sticking their paws in your face to get you to spend it there, but there may be a better way to do it…
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Net Worth Update April 1, 2008–$116,557.16 (+10.54%)

A few things helped out this months net worth statement:
1. My almost 8k tax refund certainly didn’t hurt anything. I am not going to be getting as much next year as I adjusted my W-4s to better fit my pay scale finally. I’m sick of giving the government a free loan each […]

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Jump Start Your Frugality

There is still 5 days 3 hours 4 mins and 36 seconds left to get entered for some great free stuff at Hanks Holiday Handout #2 giving away $200+ of prizes!
This is a guest post (if you would like to guest post, contact me) from Ben at MilkYourMoney.com
MilkYourMoney.com is a daily blog dedicated to helping […]

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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #22 (March 22, 2008)

Strange how that works out, Hangout #22 falls on the 22nd. Must be a sign! Go buy a lottery ticket, quick! Another good week at MIB, readership via RSS increased 13% I believe due to a few new advertising structures I’m bouncing around including Entrecard and StumbleUpon Ads. I’ll be […]

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How Much Does Your Accountant Charge To Do Your Taxes? Is It Worth It? Would You Recommend Them?

This is always a hot topic, especially around this time of year. To accountant or not to accountant, that is the usual question. For some it isn’t a question, accountants cost money they don’t have, but for a LOT of people, they can get their taxes done for a lot less than they […]

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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #21 (March 15, 2008)

This week has been a good week all around for MyInvestingBlog. We had close to 10,000 visitors thanks to a few viral posts, “How do I publicize my blog“, “will Brett Favre’s retirement affect the stock market“, and “a slick StumbleUpon option you may not know about“. Sold a few advertisementing spots and […]

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Should I Try Day Trading?

This one has popped in and out of my head for a few years now. I have a friend who has been doing it for a while now and making pretty good money off it. But I still haven’t jumped on the bandwagon.
He’s done forex and penny stock investing but prefers the forex. […]

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Monthly Net Worth Update March 2008 (+2.42%)

Things are still on the upswing this month, up 2.42% from last month. My 401k recovered from a pretty big dump the month prior; but my wife’s is still shooting ahead MUCH faster with another 10% increase this month! REREX and TRRDX are proving to be big backers for her and her 1,2 […]

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