How to recognize a profitable stock.

In today’s world, it is difficult to not learn the trade of the stock markets. Some people might rather stick with Financial institutions and their mutual funds simply because they don’t believe they have all the skills needed to survive on the stock market. I was once like that, but I have decided to learn the trade.  This change was not sudden, I have suspected some very unfair numerical movement occurring with my former mutual fund provider. It seems that no matter how large a climb the market have, my monies hardly grow, yet when the market falls, my monies immediately fall. Since I don’t know what their portfolio is like, I was left with one choice, to stop my affiliation with them. So, I took my financial strategies back into my own hands and started learning the trade of the stock world.

My first problem was, how to pick a profitable stock? This is one of the major turn offs for new investors before buying any stocks, since most non-market investors would have absolutely no clue on what each stock does.

My point of advice is, if you don’t know a lot yet, buy stocks that are related to you or your trade.

For me, I am a software Developer by trade, so I have many stocks to choose from.  My first choice was Hewlett Packard.

Then the number started coming in, I purchased the stock around 40 dollars, excluding inflation or deflation, this is a hypothetical estimation where the stock price would not change from the day I purchased it to the day I sell it, just the dividend alone would yield close to 0.6% per year. that’s above the same growth rate my mutual fund was growing. Now if we remove the hypothetical limitation and I still hold the stock today, it is now worth about 50 dollars. Considering I brought it back around April this year, the growth is amazing!

So, I immediately devoted my life savings into this field, and got some really chilly spikes within the last few days. If you read my daily posts in the stock’s world, you’d noticed that the last few days have several reports that was almost stating we are already in a recession. However, this is a chance anyone must face. Even if you put your life savings in your bank account, there is a chance your bank would go bankrupt in the next recession.

Remark : To pick a profitable stock, pick stocks that are in your major field. Since for one to be as closely to a stock as possible, one must be in the same sector and field as the company that is issuing the stock. This is also because no one would buy stocks on a steak farm if he or she doesn’t eat beef.

Comments temporily fixed – Top Commenter offline.

After analyzing the cause for Comments to malfunction, I’ve limited all problems down to two plugins, Top commenter, and threaded comments.

I will try to re-enable both in of these on my private plateform, in the mean time, comments are fixed, using the original style of comment log by wordpress.

Comments down after installing Top commenter plugin

I was attempting to install a plugin to list the top commenter for my blog the other day. Installation was successful.

However, after viewing several days and no comments, yet, I realized that my comments section is not working properly.

So I am sorry if you want to leave any comments right now, you can’t. But I am attempting to fix it as I type this post out. It shouldn’t take longer then an hour or so. Hopefully.

Ontario Election – New Democratic Party Review

Reviews on the Liberal party of Ontario and the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario, it’d be rude to leave out the third largest party, the New Democratic Party.

Election day, Oct 10th 2007, is creeping closer and Ontarians will be scrambling towards voting booths everywhere in Ontario to vote for their favorite candidates or party.
As a voter, before you cast that precious ballet, why not take a look at what each of these Candidate did during their campaign and see if they still deserve your devotion?

Third Target – New Democratic Party Candidate, Howard Hampton.

New Democratic Party (NDP), always have their focus on working class. I remember the days of Bob Rae, whom, I personally believe is the best premier of Ontario. Bob Rae started the working Sunday thing, before that, Sunday is always a Holiday. However, that seems to be really against the working class of Ontario because as a working class, I refuse to work on Sunday :p, yet that is ideal for the recession period at the time.

After this many years, finally another NDP leader seems to step up to the plate.

Just in case you didn’t know, PRIDE week is a march of the homosexuals in Toronto. And yes, it is legal to wed same-sex partners. It’d better not be a shock to you if you are a Canadian :p.

NDP on Energy.

This video shouldn’t really be here, but we can see that NDP is still considered formidable enemy by the second largest party in Ontario.

And lastly, get to know Howie Hampton.

Agloco Join or no join?

After reading on several websites, my initial thrust of joining Agloco has collapsed.

One of the many factors was John Chow’s description and Angel’s point of view of Agloco. This brings back memories from when Alladvantage was still around.

I remember back in those days, I did get a few cheques from them, simply for surfing the web. A friend of mine talked me into joining alladvantage and used him as the referrer. To a high schooler, 50 or so USD for two to three months would be quite a lot, especially when all I did was turn the AllAdvantage bar on and browse around, or chat on IRC. Back then, Microsoft Comic Chat was still active so it was pretty fun, but dealt a great blow to my system resources. For those of you who have no idea what MS Comic Chat is, it is an IRC client, with users’s words typed into dialog bubble of a user specified comic character. Here is a wiki page on it.

But then I stopped after half a year. It seems the electricity bill that I was using to browse just for the view bar was actually costing me more then the money coming in. Since I usually can’t get people to join affiliate programs like these I was stuck to making all the hours on my own.

So, after remembering this experience, I’d rather spend more time building up this website rather then installing a tool bar and hope for the little money that some big company can spare easily.

An Extra note, I doubt that view bar is designed for Linux anyways.