Investing

ETrade vs ShareBuilder

ShareBuilder offers automatic investment plans that are inexpensive to purchase. For investors who do not believe in timing the market, or who simply don’t have time to follow it and prefer to dollar-cost-average their investments with monthly, biweekly, weekly or [...]

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Around The Personal Finance Neighborhood – Kick Off Edition

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One of my favorite things about writing for a personal finance and investing blog is talking with the other personal finance bloggers on twitter, and reading their great articles and I wanted to find a way to share some of [...]

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Investing

TradeKing vs. Zecco

TradeKing vs Zecco

Zecco and TradeKing both have attractive features that can be appreciated on a variety of different levels. As far as pricing goes, Zecco originally offered $0 stock trade commissions, but has recently shifted from their free offer to a pay [...]

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Insurance

How To Borrow Against Life Insurance

Permanent life insurance plans accrue money that is set aside into a savings account. The money can then be used as an asset to obtain a loan. These types of loans do not actually have to be paid back, but [...]

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Investing

How To Day Trade Stocks

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One popular, albeit risky, method of working with the stock market is known as day trading, which simply indicates that the investor is buying and selling stocks on the same day. If an investor maneuvers stocks in this way four [...]

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Reviews

Manilla Review

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When I first found Manilla I immediately assumed it was a financial planning software like Mint.com or Adaptu but Manilla is more of a time saving, account managing service that gets you organized by putting all of your bills and [...]

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Insurance

What Kind Of Life Insurance Is Best?

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Making sense of life insurance is easier than you think. There are a lot of types of insurance but really only two main types: Permanent life insurance and term life insurance. The purpose of having life insurance is to ensure [...]

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Credit Cards

Discover More Card 5% Cash Back On Gas

I know I’m a little bit late on this one but for those of you who use your Discover More Card you could be saving 5% on every gas purchase through the end of August 2011… just for having a [...]

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Investing

TradeKing $100 Signup Bonus – September 2011 Only!

Unfortunately the TradeKing $100 Signup Bonus has expired. Please see our TradeKing promotional code page for more TradeKing promotions. Those of you who follow Before You Invest may know already, either from our promotional code page or via Twitter, but [...]

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Investing

TradeKing vs OptionsHouse

The following is part of our online stock broker reviews series, helping you find a better broker for your investments. Two of the heavy hitters when it comes to low cost online trades are OptionsHouse and TradeKing. As I write [...]

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