2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

July 2, 2010

Earn A $76 Bonus Today at Sharebuilder

Sharebuilder is offering a July 4th promotion when you open a new Sharebuilder account using promotion code JULYSALE76 and make a $4 trade by 12/31/2010. Existing account holders can still earn the bonus if they open another account. I just...
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July 5, 2010

June 2010 Monthly Cash Flow

Last month I posted our May cash flow analysis and given how tight things are these days with our downshifting to a single income and starting a family, feel that we probably need to pay closer attention to our cash...
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July 7, 2010

June 2010 Net Worth Update (-$15,172)

Assets May-10 Jun-10 Change % Cash & Savings $ 29,015.07 $ 28,864.92 $ (150.15) -0.52% Taxable Brokerage Accts $ 118,991.39 $ 111,904.54 $ (7,086.85) -5.96% Roth IRAs $ 54,287.06 $ 52,203.53 $ (2,083.53) -3.84% Pre-tax Retirement Accts $ 208,572.64...
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July 18, 2010

Options to Increase Exposure in an Attractive Stock Market

A couple weeks ago fear and pessimism seemed to have returned to the stock market. That said I think things are starting to look interesting in the stock market. Stock prices have come down (roughly 15% by my estimation) since...
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July 23, 2010

Investment Performance June 2010 (-5.64%)

This is an ongoing monthly update on how our equity investments are performing. Please see this background on the investment tool I developed and how I am using it to track our performance against a benchmark to measure our progress...
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July 26, 2010

Squeezing the Last of the Assignment Benefits

Not really getting any bottom line benefit, but trying to negate the impact of taxable benefits from our overseas work assignment that ended in 2008. Since our China assignment ended in 2008 it would make sense I wouldn't get any...
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