Bryan C. Fleming

After Friday’s big market panic I couldn’t resist the temptation to buy my last share of IVV.  Today’s price was $146.38.  Now if I would have only bought one share of IVV at 151 instead of two.  Oh well.  Hindsight is 20/20.  Especially when it comes to the stock market.

Here’s the order I placed through my free Stock Trading account: (more…)

Hey everyone.  It looks like we’re back again with another Edition of the Personal Growth Carnival.  This edition I’m calling the “raw” edition because I’m leaving the submissions just as they came in.  Comments and all!

Now, don’t get me wrong, I did throw out a TON of articles that were off topic.  Carnival Spam!  That’s what I call it.

In any case, Enjoy this week’s submissions:

Beverly Keaton Smith presents Acts of Random Kindness posted at Embrace Your Gifts and Soar!.

Warren Wong presents How to Control Your Thoughts and Get What You Want posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Find out how to control your thoughts to get what you want. Here’s an effective method for controlling your thoughts.”

John Wesley presents 101 Online Self Improvement Resources posted at Pick the Brain.

Warren Wong presents The Life Pursuit Of Money posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “Why should making money be a life pursuit? Because making money actually helps people! Here’s why.”

Tupelo Kenyon presents Facing Fear with Deliberate Awareness posted at Tupelo Kenyon, saying, “Fear is over-rated. We do it to ourselves. Fear has no reality other than our attention to it. Deliberately steer your attention to pictures in your imagination that emphasize what you want to happen – (instead of what you most dread) . . . and the fear dissipates. (Enjoy soothing instrumental music as you read plus songs with lyrics related to each article – all free.)” (more…)

Two days ago I wrote about how I was planning on buying stock because the market had a big drop. Well today I’ll show you how it went down and what I learned.

Yesterday at 9:14 am, I logged into my Zecco account to buy my 1 share of IVV (a simple S&P index fund) for $151.55. Zecco said the ask/bid price was $152.34. What’s that mean anyway?

The Bid/Ask price is Zecco’s way of telling what the stock will be at when the market opens. They were telling me the market was going open up higher than the day before.

Well, I didn’t know that the stock market opens at 9:30am. So I was early. I don’t know why, but I thought, “why not buy 2 shares of IVV”. So I put in my order for 151.60 for 2 shares. Here’s what I saw on my zecco screen: (more…)