Archive for January, 2007
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
The Rice, Beans & Chicken Experiment
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Get Rich Slow + Get Rich Quick = Get Rich Slick. If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I wrote about my college roommate that got by on $6 of food […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Uncategorized by RichSlick
Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Why I Don’t Use Debit Cards with Visa/MasterCard Logo
This article epitomizes why I don’t ever use any debit cards with Visa/MasterCard logos. Generally, when I open a new checking account, the rep is always eager to get me hooked up with a Visa or Mastercard branded Debit card and I always request a regular ATM card with pin. On rare […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Financial Safety by RichSlick
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Kudos To American Express
American Express is a company that people either love or hate. I’ve come across websites dedicated to bashing American Express but I’ve had nothing but good customer service from this company over the years. The latest great thing they’ve done for me is forgive my stupid mistake. A few weeks ago I […]
No Comments » - Posted in Raves by RichSlick
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Investment Research 101 - Getting Ideas
The past two days I’ve written a hypothetical story about where investment ideas can be found but if you can change your mindset to OBSERVE everything around you when you’re somewhere the ideas will begin to come naturally.
Going to the mall to shop? Why not sit down for a few minutes and watch the […]
2 Comments » - Posted in MMO by RichSlick
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Investment Research 101 – Day 2
Yesterday, you opted to skip lunch and research some of the investment ideas you came up with during your first day at work. You diligently printed out some news articles, researched the ticker symbols over at finance.yahoo.com, and printed the balance sheets, cash flow statements, and income statements. You looked into the insider selling transactions […]
No Comments » - Posted in MMO by RichSlick
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Investment Research 101
Every investment activity starts with an idea. I’m going to walk you through how I pick up investment ideas on any given day. I’ll run through this in a hypothetical scenario but it will apply just the same.
Hypothetical: You work for company XYZ which has 700 employees. You have money vested in your company 401k […]
No Comments » - Posted in MMO, Slow Wealth by RichSlick
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Fractals & Derivatives of Derivatives - An ETF Component Guide
From Wikipedia: In colloquial usage, a fractal is “a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced/size copy of the whole.”
See the pattern?
About a year ago, I took the kids to the zoo and we came across a magnificent tree. It was […]