Welcome to the 146th Carnival of Personal Finance, Online Broker Tips Edition.
Being an investment blog I figured my theme should focus around trading in the stock market. Thus, this week I decided to provide 12 tips for helping you choose an online stock broker.
Editor’s Choice
1. Find Out Any Account Minimums. Every broker is different, and [...]

The Falkin Investing Organization, a 501c (3) nonprofit dedicated to free financial education worldwide gives out free financial books every month to randomly selected participants. As of today we are now accepting April requests.
To receive a book, you simply need to write a personal letter (no emails) to the Organization, and choose the book you [...]

As I stated in my morning stock report that a fall for the NASDAQ under 2300 should lead to a rough day overall, and that is just what we got.
Both major indices fell on increasing volume today suggesting the market may need more work. The NASDAQ tumbled 1.87%, and the S&P 500 lost 1.15%. What’s [...]

Economic news has the market split on the future outlook this morning as the indices are almost unchanged. Unchanged that is less the NASDAQ which is still feeling the results from the Oracle earnings last night.
The big economic news today is that GDP growth was only .6% compared 4.9% in the last quarter. Basically, our [...]

The market today started sour after a negative durable goods report, and the rest of the session was really uneventful…
…until Oracle tanked 10% on earnings at the closing bell. This brought down the rest of the NASDAQ in post-hours trading which now looks to start the day tomorrow on a gloomy note.
On the bright side [...]

Oracle (ORCL) reported earnings after the bell just minutes ago that were not up to par as the stock is down almost 10% trading around $19 a share after hours. This in turn has sent the rest of the Tech stocks tumbling and alongside it the NASDAQ futures.
As of now the NASDAQ is down over [...]

The market has gapped .5% this morning to the downside as durable goods came in with a negative note. Orders to factories of big ticket manufactured goods fell for a second straight month which provides more evidence of a struggling economy.
I am surprised we didn’t see more negativity yesterday after consumer confidence fell hard but [...]

Stock Trading To Go will be hosting the 128th Carnival of Personal Finance which will be published here on the site next Monday April 1st.
If you haven’t submitted your entry yet now is a better time than later. You can submit your entries here.
Also, please make sure to read through the submission rules. I look [...]