Archive for the ‘Investing’ Category

Credit Ratings and Credit Scores

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

It’s a mysterious thing that we hear people talking about all the time. Credit ratings. For the uninitiated, it holds a mysterious quality and power over the kind of financial clout a person has. Credit ratings seem to affect what we can and can’t buy, what kinds of vehicles we ...

Stock Market: Buying My Last Share of IVV Today

Monday, July 30th, 2007

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 ...

Buying into a Down Stock Market

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

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 ...