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roskopfm said:
best place to invest is Zecco Trading. 10 free trades per month. I got four accounts a Roth and regualar account for me, and the same for my wife. I can trade each accout 10 free times a month and never pay anything to trade. Best deal out there. After 10 its something like $6 a trade. You should check it out.
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I checked out Zecco, Read the comments going down the page. It sounds like there customer service sucks. Not for me. Now I will check out Scottrade.

http://www.mymoneyblog.com/archives...rs-and-trading-experiences.html#comment-86066
 
poolman said:
Hey CB, Thank's for the input. What is Sharebuilder ?
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Poolman,

It's an online brokerage service that you can purchase individual stocks or ETF's, but no Mutuals. I have 2 ROTH's and 2 indivdual accounts, plus they also have traditional IRA's. They have different investing plans depending on how often you invest, plus you can sell/buy realtime whenever you want.

http://www.sharebuilder.com/

It fit the bill for me.

CB
 
CountryBoy said:
Poolman,

It's an online brokerage service that you can purchase individual stocks or ETF's, but no Mutuals. I have 2 ROTH's and 2 indivdual accounts, plus they also have traditional IRA's. They have different investing plans depending on how often you invest, plus you can sell/buy realtime whenever you want.

http://www.sharebuilder.com/

It fit the bill for me.

CB
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Thanks CB, This look's very interesting to me. It seem's that I can roll over my 401K without penalty.
 
poolman said:
Thanks CB, This look's very interesting to me. It seem's that I can roll over my 401K without penalty.
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Your welcome Poolman,

Just give them a call and they'll be happy to help you and answer your questions. They've always been helpful and friendly when I call and I called them alot, especially when I first was getting started a couple of years ago.

Good Luck,
CB
 
James,

Since you started the discussion of creating a $10k 2009 portfolio, what do you think of asking the powers that be if we can have a separate thread on this? This current thread will have a lot of different types of postings, it would be nice (IMHO) to have one dedicated to your 10K game.
 
CountryBoy said:
Your welcome Poolman,

Just give them a call and they'll be happy to help you and answer your questions. They've always been helpful and friendly when I call and I called them alot, especially when I first was getting started a couple of years ago.

Good Luck,
CB
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Thanks for your advice CB... I've got the Ball rolling. I'm transferring a simple IRA to Sharebuilder. It will probably take a week to get done but I like what I see. I'm now in the process of changing ownership of my IRA at Fidelity to just me. Boss has to sign off on it. Already talked to Boss, He will do it tomorrow.

Thanks.:)
 
I have just finished following Birchtree in his belief that this is the rally we have been waiting for. I have purchased the following for my son. Here are his positions and we will pick the weakest each month to add 300 dollars to.

AA 33 @12.10
MO 19@ 15.56
PFE 18 @17.90

Just my opinion but I hope we do have a long slow recover which will allow him to accumulate many shares before he graduates college.

Dave at VA
 
Davehop21 said:
I have just finished following Birchtree in his belief that this is the rally we have been waiting for. I have purchased the following for my son. Here are his positions and we will pick the weakest each month to add 300 dollars to.

AA 33 @12.10
MO 19@ 15.56
PFE 18 @17.90

Just my opinion but I hope we do have a long slow recover which will allow him to accumulate many shares before he graduates college.

Dave at VA
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What a great dad!
 
Ameren Corp is a good choice - I've owned it all the way back in 4/03/00. The dividend reinvestments have been simply excellent. I recently added to my position on 10/13/08 at $30.94. Nibble and graze - diversify rather than feast. The financial markets always rally dramatically following any true bottom, so that those who panicked on the way down are punished rather than rewarded. I don't think we will even retest the Nov. 20th lows.
 
For my IRA account, on December 28, I added Dow and Mo.
Dow was up over 6% today, but a little concerned over the Kuwait deal.
If you have several stocks, funds and use Excel, you can get the "MSN stock quote add on" and with one click, it will update all your prices.
=msnstockquote(cell,"last price")
 
Davehop21 said:
I have just finished following Birchtree in his belief that this is the rally we have been waiting for. I have purchased the following for my son. Here are his positions and we will pick the weakest each month to add 300 dollars to.

AA 33 @12.10
MO 19@ 15.56
PFE 18 @17.90

Just my opinion but I hope we do have a long slow recover which will allow him to accumulate many shares before he graduates college.

Dave at VA
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I have mixed feelings on the long slow recovery, personally I would prefer a faster one, but I sure don't see it this year. A lot of people are really suffering, but we might as well take advantage of the fire sale on stocks and add to our ROTH's. My daughter has had her ROTH for over 2 years, 21 yo now, and she can't add to it quick enough, as can either my wife or me on our ROTH's.

CB
 
I would be panicked now but it looks like AA may move back up to a resonable price today. Wish I had known I could have bought more share this morning and probably made a nice profit but it won't matter in 4 years anyway. I have to get used to just leaving it alone and take advantage of the best price each month for the next 4 years.
 
eccougar said:
If you have several stocks, funds and use Excel, you can get the "MSN stock quote add on" and with one click, it will update all your prices.
=msnstockquote(cell,"last price")
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Ok, that was a value-add bit of information for me, thanks eccougar! I had no idea I could do things that way, been doing things the hard way. Partly why its taking me so long to pick out my most likely stocks for this li'l contest. I'll have it narrowed down to first 1-5 by this weekend probably once I figure out the add-on.

I already downloaded it, just got to figure out now how to make it do its thing in Excel. I'll get there. Once I do, look out, I'm going to have a winning [mock]portfolio. :D I don't have enough real free cash or flow to buy more than 1 stock every 6 months, maybe in 4 years time I'll have the real portfolio stocked up. Or maybe I'll join Sharebuilders after all. Still thinking about that one.
 
eccougar said:
For my IRA account, on December 28, I added Dow and Mo.
Dow was up over 6% today, but a little concerned over the Kuwait deal.
If you have several stocks, funds and use Excel, you can get the "MSN stock quote add on" and with one click, it will update all your prices.
=msnstockquote(cell,"last price")
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Thanks eccougar - this saves lots of time! I downloaded it from the Microsoft site, works well!
 
A great company I own with a lot of upside is FWLT. Constuction will rise with Obama's spendaholic mentality. Its got a sold balance sheet and 18 months of work planned out.
 
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