Archive for January, 2007

Sold Corning Shares Last Week

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

by Das Brain

Recently I sold some shares in Corning NYSE: GLW. That’s Corning stock on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). I sold 500 shares in total, the breakdown is as follows:

Bought 200 shares @ $4 = $800 Dec, 2002
Bought 300 shares @ $7.15 = $2145 June, 2003
Total opening trade cost = $2945 USD

I sold 500 shares @ $21.15 = $10,575
So, total amount taking in to close the trade was $10575 USD.

Update On Credit Card Debt Reduction Plan

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

by Das Brain

My previous post under the Debt Management category was about me deciding to attack my credit card debt and have it payed off in 18 months.

So, How Do You Make Money From The Internet?

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

by Das Brain

I’m sure you are tired of hearing about my unexpected job situation, so I thought I change the topic and get right on with what this blog is supposed to be about…making money on the internet and financial market trading.

“So, How Do You Make Money From The Internet?”

For this post I am just going to list the various different ways you can make money from the web, however I will be following up with a detailed post for each method that is listed here.

No Time To Waste

Monday, January 29th, 2007

by Das Brain

It’s 7:15am E.S.T Monday morning and I am up early writing this post. Since last week, when I was terminated from work I have been sending out resumes like crazy. I have been online on most of the job sites looking for positions that I have the qualifications for and of course applying for them. So far, I applied for at least seven positions.

Life Has A Strange Sense of Humor – I Was Laid Off My Job The Day After I Blogged About “Lay Offs”

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

by Das Brain

As the title suggest, life has a sick sense of humour and irony. I was let go or terminated from my job this morning. The morning after I had just blogged about why I wanted to run my own profitable business and not have to worry about being laid off, or let go from my job.

I Don’t Want To Be “Laid Off”

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

by Das Brain

In my last post, about why I seriously decided to be an entrepreneur I listed “I don’t want to be laid off” as one of my reasons.

Why I Decided To “Seriously” Be An Entrepreneur

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

by Das Brain

I dabbled in entrepreneurship a little here and there before making the serious decision. For instance, when I used to travel to all over the United States, Asia and Australia for my the software company I used to work for I would look for things that I could re-sell on Ebay.

When Investment Advisors Can Cost You Money

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Das Brain

My wife signed up for her works retirement savings plan a few months back through her company’s investment brokers “Dundee Securities Corporation”, and she began contributing into a Stock Growth fund.

Well recently, she called the broker to move her assets from Stock Growth Fund into a mutual fund that invest in Money Market instead of stocks to reduce exposure to a downward or volatile market, and the broker tried and succeeded in talking her out of moving it.

Winners Clothing Store Computers Were Hacked

Friday, January 19th, 2007

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DAVID PADDON

Canadian Press

TORONTO — A computer security breach at the U.S. company that owns the Winners and HomeSense retail chains in Canada began last May, months before the company detected it in December and made the problem public earlier this week.

A spokeswoman for TJX Co. of Framingham, Mass., which owns Winners and HomeSense, said Friday the company remains restricted in what it can reveal because of ongoing criminal investigations but said there has been some confusion in media reports about how long ago customer information may have been compromised.

CIBC – Missing Hard Drive With Client Information

Friday, January 19th, 2007

This recent loss of data for 470,000 clients could lead to a lot of identities being stolen and used for opening up accounts by criminals. Corperations should be more careful, but they rarely are. CIBC is a repeat offender when it comes to exposing client personal data.

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Info missing on 470,000 Talvest fund clients -CIBC

Updated: 3:22 p.m. ET Jan 18, 2007

Asset Allocation in Retirement Fund

Friday, January 19th, 2007

by Das Brain

On January 15th I switched mutul funds in my retirement fund from a Balance Fund to a Money Market fund. I basically moved the full amount to the Money Market Fund as part of my asset allocation strategy. For those of you who are NOT very familiar with what a Balance or Money Market Fund is, here is a brief explanation.