Archive for November, 2006
Monday, November 6th, 2006
How do you Become a Vice President? Part I of III
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a few co-workers and family members ask me how to go about advancing their careers. These solicitations seems to happen every year right around this time partly because I’m more in touch with family and friends during the holidays and partly because many people plan to change their [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Careers by RichSlick
Monday, November 6th, 2006
Banks using Flash Cookies – How to clear them
The other day I logged on to my Bank of America account from a computer I rarely use. Much to my surprise it asked me a bunch of validation questions that I never had to answer before in order to log in. I logged on to my ING account and sure enough was asked a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Financial Safety by RichSlick
Sunday, November 5th, 2006
Who *should* buy a new car?
Someone handed me a copy of “The Automatic Millionaire” workbook (not the book) and I’ve been glancing through it. I came across the section that reads, “Buying A Car versus Leasing a Car” and what struck me was the first sentence that reads, “Cars are the worst investment that you could ever buy.” When did [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Money Management by RichSlick
Friday, November 3rd, 2006
My ETF Picking Methodology
Almost a week doesn’t go by where some firm announces the creation of new Exchange Traded Funds specializing in something or other so today I’ll reveal my methodology for picking ETFs. You can get a (nearly) complete list of ETFs from yahoo at http://finance.yahoo.com/etf/browser/mkt First I determine how much money I’m going to invest. There [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in MMO by RichSlick
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006
Why I Don’t Invest in Foreclosures
I gave away the top real estate investing “secrets” yesterday and now I’ll tell you a simple reason why I don’t do it: It is too much work! Having a full-time job, running a couple of blogs, and keeping a family in harmony is a lot of work. When I began looking into Real Estate [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Real Estate by RichSlick
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Scary Crazy Volume on Tech & Oil Puts
Halloween is over but the Put options volume on QQQQ & XLE is crazy scary. For QQQQ, there are nearly 800,000 Put contracts for November 17 strikes from $39 to $42 which beats the Call volume 2:1 http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=QQQQ&m=2006-11 (scroll down and look at the Puts) For XLE, there is nearly 110,000 Put contracts for Nov [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Watch Out by RichSlick
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
Shhh….Top Real Estate Investing Secrets
No Money Down! Buy Cheap Foreclosures! Come to our Seminar! I’ll save you the cost of the seminar and simply tell you what all the real estate “secrets” are that you will be taught in the class. The “secret” to No Money Down The No Money Down real estate purchase usually involves finding someone with [...]