Adam Shrugged

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. -John D. Rockefeller

As this is my first weekly stock tracker, I won’t be able to give an exact overview of my performance in the past week. Instead I’ll give a rundown of my portfolio ignoring my speculative plays (CDGT and IDMC.PK) which contain less than $20. My holdings are divided in the following manner: Here is the [...]

If you would know the value of money, try to borrow some. -Benjamin Franklin

Welcome to the first edition of Thrifty Thursdays. Each week I’ll cover an idea to help you spend less or save more. This week I am going to cover some free money that many people turn down or do not know about: the employee stock purchase program (ESPP). First I will explain what it is, [...]

I’ve had a lot of fun using the site for posting my ideas or taking a look at news items as they happen, but it lacked a certain level of organization that divides successful sites from ones that disappear into the abyss. Starting today I’m going to maintain the following general theme for daily posts: [...]

I bought some more Bank of America (BAC) today at $32.67. I had hoped to purchase some yesterday but my limit order was a few pennies too low. Otherwise I’d have owned some at just below $28. One of my basic rules of investing is to not worry about pennies. I should have just put [...]

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I had a fun run-in with Wamu’s customer support after they placed a 4 day hold on two different ACH transfers I had setup. My original query was rebuffed in typical customer support fashion of explaining resolution to a problem I was not having: My questions: Why is there a hold on this transfer. How [...]

Small things add up quickly, especially when they impact your cash flow. In April I mentioned I had found a way to enter my work email and Verizon would automatically apply the associated discount to my cell phone plan without changing my usage. This dropped my payments from about $67 to $60 per month (a [...]

Thats not a misprint. Nearly every security I have is down yet the dividend payments keep going up. In fact June was twice as good as the second highest month racking up $76.26 of sweet, sweet dividends. Of course buying the laptop for N and a plane ticket to visit her jumped my expenses up [...]