My father-in-law is nearing retirement and looking to get into some real estate plays to diversify his investments. I've already referred him to The Millionaire Maker: Act, Think, and Make Money the Way the Wealthy Do and Start Late, Finish Rich: A No-Fail Plan for Achieving Financial Freedom at...

Barry said something about inflation and how Bernanke is not measuring it correctly. Then another blogger jumped on it and replied that Barry does not get it. The problem with this discussion is that it is a discussion of concepts and no illustrations. All right here is the discussion, what is...

Whenever I look at stats, and numbers I like to compare it to the little things. I find the little things usually make all the difference. HP has an update from Casey, and I advise you to read it. In particular the following made me take a close look. > Not sure what I'm gonna do about the approx...

My cousin Candice, who just moved to Toronto, ran in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Race for the Cure last week. InvestorGeeks donated $300 on her behalf, and Candice was able to raise $525 total to help fund breast cancer research and awareness programs. Since last Fall, InvestorGeeks...

While you wait for the rest of my Google analysis (it may be a while), you can read this article over at Forbes that closely matches my own thinking. Google Still Cheap Atop Tech Heap by Georges Yared. Peace out, Investor Geeks.

Whenever I am way off the mark I take a step back, watch and think. It is hard for me to be this way off the mark with respect to the Fed. I was wrong, and I mean WAY wrong on Bernanke's and the Fed's decision on how their decision (1,2,3). When I am this way off I figure that I must have missed...

I listened to Bernanke speak live at the German Bundesbank and I REALLY liked his speech. I am going to cut Bernanke some slack. Listening to his talk here is my guess on what Bernanke and maybe the Fed will do next. - 25 basis point cut - 35%: If he cuts he will give a stern talking that this is...

TraderFeed, and bzbtrader have been talking about how large orders are split into smaller orders. TraderFeed wrote: > In other words, if you were to simply look at trades and trade volume, you'd conclude that small traders were dominating the marketplace. The reality is, however, that large traders...

Dell posted earnings that seemed pretty good and yet the stock dropped. Right after the earnings report the general opinion was as follows. > Dell said the strong results in the quarter reflected strength in enterprise products and services, improved average selling prices and favorable component...

Tom at Neural Market Trends asked: > Nice, I was planning on using Excel to build an interface with their API as well. Was it hard to do? Do I need to learn Visual Basic? What I want to do is address this question from a trading perspective. Do I Need a Spreadsheet? This is a good question because...