Investing

Trading Stocks In Tough Economic Times

Sep 26th, 2009 | By Derrick | Category: Investing, Stocks

With the new year coming in, many are wondering where the future of the stock market lies. Many financial experts believe that the year will be promising with an increase in jobs and better return on investments. Others believe that the year will bring bad investment returns along with new health care plans that will [...]



How To Make More Money In These Tough Economic Times

Oct 25th, 2008 | By Derrick | Category: Investing, savings

Everyone is considering the United States and maybe even the world in a recession.  Are we in a recession? Well I honestly cannot answer that. One thing I do know is it is harder to get by financially today that it was a year or two ago. One way to ease the burden on your [...]



Keep Putting Money In Mutual Funds or Put More In Savings?

Oct 14th, 2008 | By Derrick | Category: Investing, savings

A common question right now is should I keep putting money in mutual funds or should I just hoard cash in the bank in either a savings account or CDs?  People are looking to protect wealth, much more so than just increase wealth in these crazy times. As always you have to do what makes [...]



Personal Finance Articles: Should You Invest In What Buffett Is? Goldman, GE etc..

Oct 1st, 2008 | By Derrick | Category: Investing, Stocks

Warren Buffett’s company is buying roughly $3 billion of GE preferred stock, GE is also selling $12 billion more of its common stock to the general public.  Preferred stockholders have a greater claim to a companies assets and earnings. To put it in “average joe” terms preferred stock owners get a better deal. Does this mean [...]



Should I Put More Money or Less Money In My 401k

Aug 27th, 2008 | By Derrick | Category: Investing

With the recent struggles in the stock market a fairly frequent question I get is should I start putting more money into my 401k or lower the contributions? Personally, I started putting more money away in both my 401k and IRAs as I am investing in good quality mutual funds and they are currently at [...]



Mutual Funds – Should You Own Them?

Jul 9th, 2008 | By Derrick | Category: Investing, Uncategorized, savings

One common question I get is about Mutual Funds, should you really own them? Should you invest only in stocks and not pay the mutual fun fees? Maybe you should just keep your money in a savings account? My fiancee before we met would just as soon park her money in a savings account and [...]