No - I didn't make a mistake while typing the title of this post - I really meant "get" and not "pay". In my last post, I revealed that (most) banks do not charge an cash advance fees if your credit card is in a credit position. Now that this was...
Cash advance fees - we all hate them! Sometimes we withdraw money from our credit cards (often it is a very small amount) to cover for purchases in stores that do not accept credit cards, and we are dinged with the most inhumane fees ever. Banks charge at...
I watched today a very nice video on Bloomberg, about a plan to build an underwater hotel in Dubai for a total cost of $120 million. Apparently, that wasn't Dubai's first attempt to build an underwater hotel; the HydroPolis hotel that was planned back in...
February 27, 2012 | In: Trivia
"No one gets out of here alive!" - I think we're all familiar with the statement. At one point, all of us will die. But, one might think, "what will happen to my stocks when I die? Can they be part of my will? And who takes them if I have no...
While writing an article yesterday on how much money you can make with stocks, I was trying to calculate how much money a day trader makes per year provided he makes 0.75% of his investment every trading day, so I needed to know how many trading days...
CNN is one of the largest news channel in the US, and most likely the largest in the world. Since CNN is that important, it must have needed investors' money in order to expand, and thus it must be a public company, and thus it must have a stock ticker....
Following my little post on the most traded ETF, I was curious to know which stock is the most traded one on the US market.
Well, immediately I suspected SPY simply because a volume of almost 300 millions shares/day is a lot (there are smaller mature...
In my article on the definition of a spider, I mentioned that I wanted to know whether SPY was the most traded ETF or not.
Well, I did my investigation and here's the list of top 5 most traded ETFs:
- SPY (SPDR S&P 500): Average volume of 296.83...
I remember during the first months when I first started trading stocks, I woke up one day and logged in to my account on my broker's website, and I saw that C was so delicious at around $3.80 (that was before they did the reverse split). I placed the...
September 30, 2011 | In: Trivia
While writing an article yesterday on the difference between the NASDAQ composite and the NASDAQ 100 indexes I thought of something. When was the NASDAQ actually created? And who created it? And why is NASDAQ called NASDAQ?
So I did a research to find...