The dividend reinvestment plan (drip) offered at most brokers is a tool for investors, it takes company dividends paid to shareholders and automatically buys more shares for them. For example if today you bought 100 shares of Bank of America for $10 per share, you would have 100 x $10 = $1000 worth of stocks in BoA. This… Read More »
The Canadian Loonie edged up higher today. As of right now you can trade 1 Canadian dollar for 1.028 US dollar. And the US based S&P; 500 is trading at a discount compared to the Canadian S&P;/TSX Composite index so I decided to take this opportunity to buy some US stocks because it’s like taking money that’s worth… Read More »
A few tricks I’ve learned to save money when driving. 1) In a multi-lane street, drive in the lane that has the least amount of cars. Preferably drive in a lane, where there are no vehicles behind you. This way you can time your stops and goes. If there is a red light 200 meters away, you don’t… Read More »
*Dividends: Discount Brokerage = $100 Discretionary Spending: Eating Out = $50 Others = $90 *Net Worth: Assets: Cash = $4,500 ( -$3,100 MoM) Stocks = $48,100 ( +$4100 MoM) Home = $243,000 Liabilities: Mortgage = $210,700 (-300 MoM) LOC Balance = $0 Total Net Worth = $84,900 ( +1.56% MoM) I put some more money into the stock… Read More »
Here are some ways we can save money if we happen to live close to the US border like here in Vancouver. Groceries and gasoline is still fairly cheap in the States than in Canada so we can time our groceries and gas trips together. That way we can get cheap milk and eggs, plus a discount to… Read More »
A voice synthesizing program lets you type in words and make the program say it back to you. Vocaloids are programs that does this but also allows users to map the words to musical notes, and manipulate phonemes, add bravadoes, etc so the voice played back sounds like singing. Combined with instrumental tracks any artist can essentially compose any… Read More »