TD Ameritrade to merge with Charles Schwab
I have accounts at TD Ameritrade and Fidelity and was disappointed with the news of the proposed merger of TD Ameritrade with Charles Schwab, TD’s website and trading platform, in my opinion, are excellent. I have never had any problems with my account or trading executions. I was wondering how others feel about this. If […]
3 Top Artificial Intelligence Stocks to Watch in October from Motley Fool
They preface the brief clues with this ’We’ve found three well-known but unexpected companies that are building a lucrative future off today’s advances in artificial intelligence’. So I guess it will not be the obvious ones like Amazon AMZN or NVIDIA NVDA ’1. This familiar tech titan is using AI to open new windows of […]
A solution for payment of the wall
I have had it up to here with all this discussion about ’the wall’ . Here is my proposal: Why not have an assessment to pay for the wall. There are 15 million taxpayers that earn over $100,000 per year. An assessment of $400 each for taxpayers in this category times 15 million equals 6 […]
Motley Fool Biotech
Not many clues; which company is this? The best biotech investors consistently reap gigantic profits by recognizing true potential earlier and more accurately than anyone else. Let me cut right to the chase. There is a product in development that will revolutionize not just how we treat a common chronic illness, but potentially the entire […]
Target credit / debit card breach
I just cannot understand why people have debit cards? With a credit card purchase, you get a minimum extra 30 days to pay. A debit card is paid immediately via a direct link to your bank account; how secure is that? Now there is another disadvantage coming from the Target breach ; ”JPMorgan Chase & […]
funny golf tee shirt
I saw a funny golf tee shirt at Tanglewood today. ’I hit two good balls today’ And in the fine print ”I stepped on a rake’
What Stocks Leon Cooperman Just Bought
Today I watched a CNBC video with famous investor Leon Cooperman as a guest. He was asked ’what is he buying?’. Two of the new names he mentioned were ”Monetize” a mobile wallet company, and ”Technique” an LNG construction company. They didn’t give the stock symbols, so I had to do some gumshoeing to figure […]
Selling GOOG and buying VXX
A writer on Seeking Alpha (name not given) was going to take his profits on GOOG and buy VXX in this article, dated March 7,2013. http://seekingalpha.com/article/1257061-i-took-profits-on-google-should-you?source=yahoo Since I own GOOG, I was curious about VXX. This is the S & P 500 VIX short-term futures ETN (exchange traded note) issued by Barclays iPath on January […]