http://youngandthrifty.ca/saving/2010-new-yearfinancial-resolutions/ saving generation Y Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:36:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://youngandthrifty.ca/saving/2010-new-yearfinancial-resolutions/#comment-56 youngandthrifty Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:47:26 +0000 http://youngandthrifty.ca/?p=361#comment-56 lol aren’t resolutions meant to be broken? When price did you buy Apple at? Because if you bought it recently, that’s not too bad, but if you bought it at the beginning of the year, it’s down a bit from that it seems. I heard that there was hype that Steve Jobs was leaving (because he has pancreatic cancer and isn’t doing too well) and that would potentially hurt the stock, but it hasn’t has it seems. Yes, that tablet rumours are all around us, i swear I saw the tablet the other day on the streets… it looked like a square and boxy digital photoframe…maybe I saw it as a prerelease? Not sure. I think buying individual stocks isn’t a bad idea at all, there’s a lot of potential to gain a lot (but then again, i guess a lot of potential to lose a lot). At this trading seminar I went to (I’ll talk about that in a later post) they said that if you’re disciplined (e.g. not panicking and selling when it’s down a wee bit, setting the maximum amount you’re willing to lose as an automatic sell, and not having a set gain that yo want to sell at) then you can be profitable buying individual stocks. I’m off to a bad start this year too! =) I am down about $500 so far… I accidentally sold suncor at a loss when it was a gain (Questrade’s wonky webtrader system). Thanks for visiting! .-= youngandthrifty´s last blog ..<a href="http://youngandthrifty.ca/miscellaneous/questrade-tax-free-trading-account-update/" rel="nofollow">Questrade Tax Free Trading Account Update</a> =-. lol aren’t resolutions meant to be broken? When price did you buy Apple at? Because if you bought it recently, that’s not too bad, but if you bought it at the beginning of the year, it’s down a bit from that it seems.
I heard that there was hype that Steve Jobs was leaving (because he has pancreatic cancer and isn’t doing too well) and that would potentially hurt the stock, but it hasn’t has it seems. Yes, that tablet rumours are all around us, i swear I saw the tablet the other day on the streets… it looked like a square and boxy digital photoframe…maybe I saw it as a prerelease? Not sure.
I think buying individual stocks isn’t a bad idea at all, there’s a lot of potential to gain a lot (but then again, i guess a lot of potential to lose a lot). At this trading seminar I went to (I’ll talk about that in a later post) they said that if you’re disciplined (e.g. not panicking and selling when it’s down a wee bit, setting the maximum amount you’re willing to lose as an automatic sell, and not having a set gain that yo want to sell at) then you can be profitable buying individual stocks.
I’m off to a bad start this year too! =) I am down about $500 so far… I accidentally sold suncor at a loss when it was a gain (Questrade’s wonky webtrader system).
Thanks for visiting!
.-= youngandthrifty´s last blog ..Questrade Tax Free Trading Account Update =-.

]]> http://youngandthrifty.ca/saving/2010-new-yearfinancial-resolutions/#comment-51 the Cynical Investor Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:47:43 +0000 http://youngandthrifty.ca/?p=361#comment-51 I already broke what I considered my main financial new year’s resolution: not to buy individual stocks and only ETFs. I could not help it and bought Apple (I succumbed to the hype surrounding the imminent launch of the tablet). I already broke what I considered my main financial new year’s resolution:
not to buy individual stocks and only ETFs.
I could not help it and bought Apple (I succumbed to the hype surrounding the imminent launch of the tablet).

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