Remember when I posted that I was going to start investing in stocks? Well I did it. I just didn’t mean to. I did a bunch of research on stocks and picked out one to start with (I decided to do the investing in chunks – choose one stock, buy it, do more research, choose …
The other day, J. Money posted about how he’s planning to start buying stocks again. I commented that buying stocks scared me a bit, but it got me to thinking. I’m not in a position to start heavily investing in the stock market, but I think it might be a good idea to take a …
Well, I did it. I set up my automatic contributions to my Roth IRA for 2009. I set it to max out the contribution by using monthly investments. I’ve been putting it off because the market has been so tough to watch. It’s hard to look at how much my investment has lost and still …
I am going to make an attempt to contribute $5000 to my Roth IRA again this year. I’m currently trying to figure out a strategy. My Roth IRA is at Vanguard, and I currently have my money in two funds: the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index and the Vanguard Total International Stock Index. Not surprisingly, …
I have in front of me a report on the current financial situation written by a market strategist at one of the U.S. investment firms. The report is titled “Stay Calm in the Midst of Crisis.” The author makes some good points. The one that resonated the most with me is: “Investing is easy. Staying …