Okay, I praise this guy ~ John Chow, he is a genius in my mind.
I came to update my lil’ old blog today and he was on my recent readers list : 0 ) Woot-Woot!
This was so cool to see him actually taking the time to come see my blog. I even had to take a snapshot of this as evidence, LOL…I am a loser huh?! No, just a big JC fan!
Back to work Krysti! Okay TTYL…
Here is a photo of the stocks I bought last Friday! Tomorrow should be my 2nd exciting day on the stock market. Friday was awesome, two of the stocks I bought each had a 12% gain at the end of the day which was SO unexpected. However, it made me very happy that I had made the choice to try stocks. Serious people, I don’t think stocks have to be so confusing or hard. I am not a rocket scientist BUT I am very good when it comes to knowing certain topics and that was my tactic here. I invested into companies I believed in. I read their profiles, checked out their websites, read recent press releases and figured out what their future plan were to grow and BOOM that is where I decided to invest in these four companies pictured here to the left. That is an actual photo from my Scottstrade account I set up. Now as you can see (my lovely handwriting in blue) I ONLY have $387.20 invested so far. I deposited $500 into my account so I can still buy another stock if I want. I have a little dough left in there. Everytime I buy or sell a stock though, it costs $7 per trade. So you have to be careful not to waste money constantly buying/selling too much. Now if you make a huge break, sel, sell, sell obviously. Run with the profits…but if your stock has a bad day, don’t give up yet. For instance my UBET stock I bought as a HIGH RISK stock because it is down. My hopes are that it will go back up, well if it does YEAH for me and my wallet, but if it doesn’t I ONLY have $50 invested in it. That isn’t too much to lose if all goes bad. They are to announe their 3rd quarter earnings soon, and I hope that day will be good news for that petcular stock. Anyways, my other stocks ROCK…I would HIGHLY suggest anyone interested to look into this LLNW (Limelight Networks) stock/company. They have big plans and are linked to hundreds of A lister companies such as Myspace, Facebook, Metacafe, Microsoft & Amazon. The list goes on. Check them out. I made a total of about $28 just on Friday. Yeah that isn’t a lot but it’s pretty much free money and great profit for such a low investment as mine. Stay tuned. So far my gain is $28 – what will tomorrow bring in?
Okay, never in a million years did I think that I would ever try my hand at the stock market. Why…you ask? Well simply put, it is very intimidating to me and I think it is to a lot of other people as well. My thoughts on the stock market have always been: You have to be rich to play the stock market, you have to be well educated on stocks and such and you won’t make much if you don’t have much to put in. I also thought that you had to have a lot of time. After weeks of debate and concern, I have finally decided to go for it, yeah! I have tried to get “stock smart” in just a few weeks and well…I have decided it doesn’t nessicarily work that way for people wanting to get into stocks that don’t want to risk all of their money. If we are only putting in a few hundred (under a thousand dollars) than we don’t have too much to worry about. I guess it is different when you are playing with your life savings or half of a million dollars right?! Okay so here is where it gets cool for you. I am going to keep you updated on my progress daily. I think this is cool, because as a stock newbie myself I have tried to find someone online that has a blog about beginning stocks and their loss/gains but no such thing exists. At least I can’t find one. So here I am. I know VERY little about stocks or the market, however I know that it is a game of chance and you really can make money off of it. I got really motivated and decided to make the plunge after my friend told me about a recent small cap stock (that pretty much means a stock that is new or cheap to buy in) he had bought. I guess at one point you could have even called it a penny stock, because it opened at like .50 cents per share in early September. It is now at $1.70 ish and has a lot more potential. Well considering it is one month later and the stock has tripled in price…I got excited. He had invested $1,000 of his money into that stock (SPKL is the stock symbol by the way.) Now he has made about $2,000 profit. OH MY GOSH, okay so he got lucky I thought…But not really. He did a little research, took a chance and now ONLY one month later he has tripled his money that he invested. I kept watching him make this money and he kept urging me to buy…but I didn’t until now. A few days ago I went into Scottstrade and gave them $500 cash (this is the lowest amount of money that they will accept as a deposit to open an account) and it was really easy. They said that my funds would be available the next day and I could start buying/trading stocks online as early as noon o’clock. Awesome, I couldn’t wait and I was really mad at myself, because this was way too easy so far! I didn’t think you could join the stock market game for $500. Yeah, in a sense that is a lot to some of us BUT it can be worth a lot more with smart choices. And I am not saying that every investment I make will be a smart one, but we will hope for the best ‘eh! Okay, so now I had my new Scottstrade account, my $500 deposit (funds available) and I was unsure of what to buy at this point. I honestly was afraid to buy into my friends choice of Spicky Pickle stock (SPKL) because it had gained so much, so quickly…and it was a new stock. I have noticed that when a stock hits the market for the first time, buyers/investors eat it up. Well they surely ate that up and I wasn’t quite sure I had enough faith to put my eggs into that basket quite yet. However, I do still think that they have a lot of potential. Just read about them and you’ll see what I mean. They have been plans, a good business model and they show room for success. I will watch them and also include them in my daily stock market reports here. That way I can play “what if I would have invested” and see if I would have made or lost money. That sounds fun huh?! Okay…so mving along with what I decided to buy. Here it goes, here are the stocks I decided to buy this morning 10/26/2007. I bought into 4 different companies and they are PGIC, LLNW, HYBT and UBET (these are all symbols for the stocks.) I am going to end this post here and start a new one with details about each stock, how many shares of each I bought and the current stock prices per company. Then we will track my stock progress online daily together – Right here on my blog. I hope to be a success with little knowledge and a little investment for all of those who also want to try out stocks…but seem to think that they don’t have enough time, money or skills to do so. We will see, lets go make some money and learn together…Until next time.
~Krysti~
Okay, so last week I was working online and started to get all kinds of pop ups on my computer. It was so annoying. Then I realized in my Internet Explorer there was this toolbar called the “Security Toolbar 7.1” at the top of my page. OH NO…I didn’t know what to do so I figured that being a web geek I could get it off no problem. NO WAY, I tried everything and nothing worked. After endless hours of searching online the only thing I could find was actually one of the products that I promote. It seems that this stupid security toolbar virus thingy was called malware. I installed this anti-malware software killer on my pc and boo-yah. It really did work so I must say to anyone who is in the same boat as I was – Try this software. It is the only thing I found to work. After all of that ~ I did the un-thinkable…I sold my computer three days later because I think that was a sign to move on. Don’t worry It was fixed, I am not that mean LOL. My poor PC was like 3 years old and I needed to get with the times LOL so here I am on my new PC and I am loving it. Go HP, you rock! I will miss old faithful however…there was a lot of money making done on that lovely piece of of technology ; ) She served me well. So recap here, if you get infected with this annoying virus toolbar called SECURITY TOOLBAR 7.1 , try this - it really works and will remove the security toolbar 7.1 for you! SERIOUSLY ~ Save your computer now…or buy a new one ; )
I need to actually write on my blog eh, there is an idea for success. I have so much going on here (good things) money, advertising that I need to remind myself that I started this blog and haven’t even shared an ounce of info yet. It is sure to come very soon guys. I hope tonight to do a few reviews add som links that can make you money and share some thoghts. I have a head full of stuff to post so it’s coming. Talk soon, please stay with me…we are going to make a lot of money together!
