Dividend Investing with Less Than $1,000 Part 3: How To Pick Your ETFs and/or Dividend Funds
I remember the first time I opened my brokerage account online to start trading. I had $19,500 that I just transferred from a line of credit and I felt like a kid in a candy store with $1M in my pocket . Even though I had a solid background in finance and had friends working [...]
Investing With Less Than $1,000 Part2: How To Pick The Right Brokerage Account Before Investing
Last week, I started a short series about dividend investing for beginners. I noticed that it had generated a few comments as I waved the first option that would be to start with stock picking right away. I still believe that starting with 1 or 2 stocks in your portfolio may put you [...]
Top 5 Ways to Lose Money in Stocks
In a recent series of articles, I challenged a number of other investing and personal finance bloggers to present us with their choice for the top 3 investing mistakes an investor can make. I did some additional thinking of the items on these lists and determined what I believe to be the top 5 ways [...]
How Would I Invest if I Were Just Starting Out?
How would I invest $20,000 – $30,000? That was a question that was recently asked of me by a reader on a recent post I did covering the number of stocks debate. The same question was asked by another reader through the comments section on this site, only his question was for around $100 – [...]
