In this article I will discuss changing your future contributions, rebalancing your 401(k), and one "advanced" tactic you can use to take advantage of dips in the market. Changing Your Future Contributions If you're like most people, you setup your 401k a while ago (using who knows what method...

Phil Town's upcoming book Rule #1 is sure to become an investment classic. I had the pleasure of reading the book after receiving an advanced copy from Crown Publishers, the distributor of the book which is scheduled to be released in March. What I found was a practical, no-nonsense approach to...

Jose Anes has a great personal finance blog you might be interested in. He's a smart guy who covers a lot of ground in his writing. Some of his best articles are lifehack-style tips on how to save a few extra dollars here and there. My favorite article of his is from back in November 2004: Reducing...

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Robert Kiyosaki’s book, Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom, is an inspirational and compelling guide to breaking free from the earnings "rat race", by moving from the "left side of the quadrant" where most people work to the "right side" and ultimately financial freedom....

I know you came here looking for another insightful article by Chris. You can expect to be wowed again by Chris tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some recent items of interest: How Warren Buffett Invests The folks at BusinessWeek have built a stock screener around Buffett's investing principles....

SIRI Things aren't looking to good for my little gem these days. - A Sirius Gamble from Knowledge @ Wharton - Has Stern Lost His Touch? by Rick Aristotle Munarriz - It's All About the Oprah by Rick Aristotle Munarriz YHOO Meanwhile, YHOO is down $3 from when I recommended it a couple weeks ago....

Here are two interesting new websites, in the Web 2.0 spirit, focused on stocks. Predict Wall Street - This site allows you to make daily predictions on the move of a stock or index. As with a lot of Web 2.0 offerings, it gets better with each additional user. If more people start using this site,...

Last Friday, SIRI dipped below $5.50, which was my level to pickup another 70 shares as planned. I've been meaning to try out some options trading, and with the stock so low I thought what the hey. Why not buy 500 options rather than 70 common shares? Here's my first lesson for options trading: 1....

In Part 1 of this article, we looked at how to use the Morningstar Premium Fund Screener, and I showed you two screens I use to select top funds for my portfolio. This article will move on from the screening phase of the stock screening process to the analysis phase, where we actually choose the...