Lehman Covered Call Results

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Sometimes it is better to be lucky than right….Going into Wednesday of this week, I was telling myself that I should have never entered into the second covered call a month ago when Lehman (ticker: LEH) was at trading at $24.20. During that posting, I still had the opportunity of a gain…
But miraculously, in the last [...]

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Tags: Trading Ideas

CD Ladder Investment - 50% Complete

July 19th, 2008 · No Comments

So I am halfway there on completing my 1st short-term financial goal of creating a CD Ladder investment worth $3,000, opening up my 3rd CD in July. These are dollars that I can save and/or earn through this blog. This $3,000 investment would be made up of six $500 CD’s that have a 6-month [...]

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Tags: Banking

Statistics of PopTopRanks helps establish a goal

July 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Just recently, Finance Puzzle was listed in the personal finance blog listings for PopTopRanks. This directory of top sites listed by popularity (determined by # of feed subscribers) is a great tool for bloggers and readers.

For readers, PopTopRanks provides you a one stop service to list out all of the blogs in your interest, potentially uncovering some new [...]

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Tags: Blogging