Archive for July, 2006

Latest discount brokerage

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

The latest discount brokerage (as reported on this FW thread) is Sogoinvest.com. They have a few pricing models, some of which include subscription fees. From what I could gather from their website, the bottomline is that for the plan without subscription nor inactivity fees, you only pay $3 per trade (market or limit), for up [...]

Is buying gold (metal) speculation?

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

The rise in gold prices led many people, including some “financial advisors”, to think that putting money in investment vehicles that bet purely on price of gold is a good strategy. This is evidenced by the return of the popular gold savings account and the introduction of gold ETFs like GLD and IAU. In my [...]

About

Tuesday, July 4th, 2006

Indexfundfan is an engineer. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and works in the semiconductor industry. Currently residing in Silicon Valley, California, USA, he starting investing during the bubble days of 2000. Like almost everyone else, he got burnt from his investments, but fortunately the price of the lesson was not too expensive. Now, [...]