Welcome to the Carnival of Investing. Lots of good stuff for you today. Instead of a long-winded introduction by me, here’s an entertaining video about investing. Big thanks to Jonathan for asking me to join his carnival circuit. Enjoy the posts! Toss it up to Sun for next week’s carnival.
Video below (you might not be able to see it in your RSS reader).
Editor’s Choice
Stock Allocation Rule: 120 Minus Age posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Jim compares the “120 Minus Age” rule for stock allocation to Vanguard, Fidelity, and T. Rowe Price’s Target Retirement funds. Verdict? The Target Retirement funds are more conservative than the “120 Minus Age” rule.
Why Portfolio Rebalancing Works ? It?s More Powerful than You Probably Think posted at My Pocket Change.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Great article. It summarizes how rebalancing does much more than just re-aim your risk/return level. It forces you to sell over-priced asset classes and buy under-priced asset classes.
Top 10 Scams Of 2006: Some Personal Encounters posted at The Digerati Life.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: View this article! CT has a detailed account of top scams that people have invested in last year and her personal encounters with all of them. Plus there’s a video embedded in the article. I love videos.
Ten Simple Steps For Checking Out A Stable Long-Term Stock To Invest In posted at The Simple Dollar.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Trent gives us a fantastic guide on how to analyze a company to see if they’re worth buying or not.
Investing in the Markets
Sharp Minds Love the Sharpe Ratio posted at A Financial Revolution.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: The Sharpe Ratio is a measure of the reward to risk of a given investment. William gives us an analysis if it works or not.
Wealth Building Thru Gold Investing - It is All About Supply and Demand posted at Breaking the Shackles of the 9 to 5.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Michael talks about why we should invest in gold. Sweet sweet gold.
Pivot Points posted at Trader Knowledge.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Equation included. Pivot Points work by indicating points of support and resistance for the price of a financial instrument that is being traded. When the price reaches a pivot point, it will either bounce back from it (indicating support or resistance) or continue beyond it.
Missed Oppotunities in Uranium, Water and Food, and China. posted at My 1st Million At 33.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: ML talks about missed investment opportunities for 2006.
Zero Sum Game posted at Investing in Euro.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Is the stock market a zero sum game? What does that mean?
General Investing
Learn from Dick and Jane. Don’t Stop Investing, Don’t Be a Dick! posted at Money Smart Life.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Here’s a great story (with moral) from Ben. Don’t forget to check out the contest he’s running at his website. He’s buying the winner a $150 consultation with a professional financial planner.
Investing 101: Keeping Your Costs Low posted at Queercents.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Fees can eat up your capital gains. Here’s what you should look for.
Investing and crocheting posted at MightyBargainHunter.com.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Do like crochet? Do you like investing? What analogies from crochet can you take home for investing? Answer inside.
Wesabe Finance Tool Review posted at FIRE Finance.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: FIRE Finance reviews a finance tool. Verdict? They like!
New rate of Spanish Capital Gains Tax posted at Overseas Property Blog.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Spain lowered their capital gains tax from 35% to 18%. Yowzah! 35% is a LOT.
Is Your 401(k) Insured Against Electronic Theft? posted at Free the Drones.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: A post on protecting your brokerage account from being hacked.
Personal Updates
$100 FOREX Experiment - First Profit! posted at Digital Breakfast
Binary Dollar’s Notes: Tom had a damn good trade in the EUR/JPY pair after beating his head against the wall last week.
One CEO Down, Two Doing Well posted at Free Money Finance.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: FMF has been following a “find driven, smart CEOs and buy their stocks” strategy and he updates us on his investments: Including his Home Depot stock which suffered a blow since the CEO recently resigned.
Investing Resolutions for 2007 posted at Investor Trip.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: TJP gives us his investing resolutions for 2007. Actually, it’s a good list of 10 resolutions for anyone.
Investing in Business
Finding the Right Franchise for You posted at The Small Business Buzz.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: This answers the basic questions of the why’s and how’s of starting a franchise. I want to start a White Castle franchise but they are privately own. Poop.
top 5 finance tips for your 20s posted at InvestmentsLoans.net.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: There are about 4 tips in this article. They appear to gear toward investing and starting your own business in your 20s.
Retirement
What is your savings goal for retirement? posted at makingourway.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: MOW asks its readers what their savings goals are for retirement. He also talks about his own personal situation. There are some interesting comments to this post too.
Four Types of Annuities: Fixed & Variable Deferred, Fixed & Variable Immediate posted at My Retirement Blog.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: This article talks about the differences between various annuities. According to the article, deferred variable annuities are the most complex of the four and should be a last resort for investors.
Investing in a Home
What Exactly do First Time Home Buyers Need? posted at Searchlight Crusade.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: This article hit home for me since I’m researching to buy my own home. This article (and entire blog) has good information on it. The article isn’t “scannable” so don’t be disuaded to read it because of the large paragraphs.
Know Your Lender Before You Take That Loan posted at Home Equity Loan Lowdown.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: If you plan to take a loan against your home’s equity anytime in the near future, better beware of the many frauds and other problems that are associated with some lenders.
Home Improvement 2.0 posted at Kirby on Finance.
Binary Dollar’s Notes: With the housing “bubble” causing a decline in rapid price growth in the housing market, investors must turn to skillful ways of squeezing out value in their property. This article looks at ways to develop the right mindset in this new environment.
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