Thursday, April 23, 2009
A couple months ago I signed up for one of those free stock type games (WeSeed) you can try out with fake money to see how you would do in the real stock market. I haven't done so bad considering the intense fluctuations stocks have been experiencing.My interest in stocks is mostly due to the fact that I have a 403B with my employer and I'm losing money as I'm sure most people are right now. So I've been wanting to learn more about what it's all about.
One of the places I've come across for information and advice is tradeMonster. The site was co-founded by Jon Najarian, Pete Najarian, and Dirk Mueller which means they collectively have an average of 20 years experience dealing with financial information.
When it comes to finding an online options broker you definitely want someone with experience and I'd say especially those with young, fresh and innovative minds because they too are dealing with the craziness of today's economy. And yes, I admit, going to their website and being greeted with a wave of music which totally pumped me up also helped.
But when you look beyond the fresh site and energizing music you see all the tools and assets they have to offer as a trading facility online. Their production tools are completely browser based so you can access information from anywhere. Once you pull up your account you have the tools to actively watch the market and pick up strategies tuned in to your personalized needs. It is a bit overwhelming at first, but at the same time it is an invigorating experience (coming from a 28-year-old novice).I should also let you know they have different options for different type people. Someone like myself would be better off dealing with paperTrade which is the area you sign up to test different trading strategies and learn risk management. It's free to open the account and it brings you all the necessary proprietary stock reports right to your browser window.
WeSeed is free, too but the advice and analysis you receive is from other people like yourself. Being able to work with tradeMonster and knowing people who actually do this for a living are the ones giving me advice definitely puts me at ease.
So as our markets stabilize and eventually improve if you want to hop on ship while investments have the potential to start low then you should definitely sign up with tradeMonster.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Ok, this is the technology themed blog, but we all know it really means we can discuss anything remotely geeky, too. Right? Hehe.
My younger brother graduated with a dual-degree in business management and marketing. He has always been the business minded one. He is great at puzzles and creating strategic plans. He reads marketing books, business-themed books, etc. It's crazy. But anyway, sometimes I look out for sites that I think would interest him. (Since my craziness spans from all that is the WWW).
I find him information on business, companies and their rankings. He likes to know what's going on with the Fortune 500 and such. It's nice to have the net at your fingertips because you can easily find out Google ranks, Top Yahoo Rankings and other statistics that indicate growth or popularity for a company.
There are marketing related search engines now, like Apogee Search; it is one of the 25 largest Search Engine Marketing firms in the world. What this means is Apogee gets the stats and analyzes them for you. In addition, they keep you posted on all the latest news having to do with rankings online. Like the AdWords IP Exclusion mess that is currently going on. Apogee explains that The IP Exclusion tool allows you to "camouflage your AdWords paid search campaign from being seen by 20 competitors." Seems awfully sneaky to me, so I'm glad Apogee gave me the heads up.
You should check out their site. If you're like me you can learn a lot at their blog about latest news, but if you are business minded and want to generate more profits and learn more about search engine ranking...you can do that, too. =o)
Disclosure:
This post has been sponsored.
My younger brother graduated with a dual-degree in business management and marketing. He has always been the business minded one. He is great at puzzles and creating strategic plans. He reads marketing books, business-themed books, etc. It's crazy. But anyway, sometimes I look out for sites that I think would interest him. (Since my craziness spans from all that is the WWW).
I find him information on business, companies and their rankings. He likes to know what's going on with the Fortune 500 and such. It's nice to have the net at your fingertips because you can easily find out Google ranks, Top Yahoo Rankings and other statistics that indicate growth or popularity for a company.
There are marketing related search engines now, like Apogee Search; it is one of the 25 largest Search Engine Marketing firms in the world. What this means is Apogee gets the stats and analyzes them for you. In addition, they keep you posted on all the latest news having to do with rankings online. Like the AdWords IP Exclusion mess that is currently going on. Apogee explains that The IP Exclusion tool allows you to "camouflage your AdWords paid search campaign from being seen by 20 competitors." Seems awfully sneaky to me, so I'm glad Apogee gave me the heads up.
You should check out their site. If you're like me you can learn a lot at their blog about latest news, but if you are business minded and want to generate more profits and learn more about search engine ranking...you can do that, too. =o)
Disclosure:
This post has been sponsored.
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