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Free Money For Your Child!

/ October 26, 2010 / charity, home, local, make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

Nope, I don’t have a child – but I sure have one hell of an awesome nephew! And as the best uncle ever, I (as well as his folks of course) want to make bloody sure that he’s well educated when he gets to the age where he starts university or college or whatever it [...]

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Do Your Research Before You Buy Your Stocks

/ April 27, 2010 / make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

The latest book I’m reading “One Up On Wall Street” is a great read, I’m not quite done of it yet with about 100 pages left, but it’s a great companion book to my other favorite finance book “The Wealthy Barber”. The reason that I like it so much is that it fills in the [...]

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How to make $8,000 from a one-time $10,000 RRSP contribution

/ April 25, 2010 / make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

I know tax time is behind us.. but you know, I just found this blog article and decided to write about it. I haven’t written many financial posts lately and this is one that I didn’t want to leave till the last minute. It’s really a straight forward concept, but I’ve never really thought of [...]

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Ladies and Gentlemen, we are at Par – And no, not talking golf.

/ April 6, 2010 / make money, stocks / Permalink

I knew this day would come soon, and sure enough.. today is the day. The Canadian Dollar is at par again with the US Dollar. It got pretty close back in mid-march as I posted before, but today it breached (although as of this minute it’s back up over just by a fraction of a [...]

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Start Saving Money Now! I Will Teach You How (Part 2)

/ March 12, 2010 / everyday life, make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

So in part 1 of this series I wrote about basically how easy it was to open up an account with Questrade, and told you step by step on how to go about doing it. In this part, I’m going to show you how to fund your account, make it automatic and how to start [...]

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RRSP Deadline is soon, and I’m making some moves.

/ February 22, 2010 / make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

As the March 1st RRSP contribution deadline approaches, I’ve been relatively busy trying to get things in order. I must say that Questrade has become a large reason why this is happening. I am re-discovering and really appreciating Questrades’ services lately. Firstly, I realized not that long ago that I can trade mutual funds really [...]

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Want To Buy A 100x Leveraged ETF?

/ November 19, 2009 / make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

Make sure you read the whole post… found at Jason Kelly’s Blog. Kelly Capital is proud to announce on Friday the 13th the world’s first pair of 100x leveraged ETFs: Kelly Daily Nasdaq 100 Bull 100x Shares (SOAR) and Kelly Daily Nasdaq 100 Bear 100x Shares (SINK). The investments seek to replicate, net of expenses, [...]

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Read Any Good Books Lately? You Know, All These Finance Books Say The Same Thing..

/ November 18, 2009 / everyday life, make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

I’m becoming a library junkie, but I’m sort of proud of myself for doing so. Hell, up until a few years ago I barely read anything if it wasn’t on a glossy page with Maxim on the cover. Lately I’ve been picking up a TON of finance books and I have to be honest in [...]

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Found My Investment Vehicle!.. Zoom Zoom!

/ November 9, 2009 / everyday life, make money, save money, stocks / Permalink

I posted back on August 21st that I was looking for a spot to invest my Smith Maneuver money. I think I’ve found it! I had a few goals that I wanted to achieve with this money when invested.. and the criteria was as follows: low-risk low commissions automatic deductions? Or easy to purchase dollar [...]

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Dollar = New Highs today.. well, since last October anyhow..

/ October 9, 2009 / make money, stocks / Permalink

Are we heading back to better than par for the Canadian dollar?? Personally.. ya.. think so.. and I think it’s going to be there for awhile.. Here’s the latest chart chart from yesterday I have with the latest price and you can see that 1 Canadian Dollar will buy you 0.946 of a USD right [...]

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