Trade
June 17, 2022
Every Father’s Day, we celebrate our dads. We recognize all the things they do for us. We recognize the example they set through their work ethic, their character, their strength, their patience, and their love. In short, we celebrate the best qualities that dads have to offer. But are we leaving something out? Are we forgetting to appreciate the most revered, time-honored aspect of all time? We’re referring to, of course, The Dad Joke. Dad Jokes, as you know, fall under the “so bad it’s good” category of humor, a much-beloved tradition of dads everywhere. So, in honor of Father’s […]
June 2, 2022
When you were young, you may have asked your parents why we observe Memorial Day. While some people use it as a chance to throw a backyard BBQ, others take the time to visit cemeteries, pour over old photographs, or read the stories of those who died serving our country. “But why?” It seems like such a sad holiday. Why do we do it? We’d like to show you something you’ll never forget. It’s a speech given by President Dwight Eisenhower – and if there’s any president who understood the “why” of Memorial Day, it was surely Ike. It’s an […]
October 3, 2019
Back in 2015 when we moved your investment accounts to TD Ameritrade, we had a choice. Our choice was to pay trading fees for all of our clients OR to have our clients pay for the trading fees on their own accounts. We decided to have our clients pay the trading fees on their accounts for two reasons. (1) If we paid the trading fees, we felt we would have a conflict of interest to trade your account. Meaning that every time we placed a trade, it would cost thousands of dollars and we wanted to focus on the profitability of the trade […]
April 14, 2018
If you just listen to all the hype about China. You’d be convinced they are going to take over the world. There’s so much talk today about their incredible growth rate and the power of their economy; we may forget just how good we are doing in the US. Yes, it is amazing how quickly the Chinese government has forced their growth pattern. They’ve literally flooded millions of people from their hometowns with the Three Gorges project and forced them to move to the city. They are relocating 250 million people, according to a NY Times report, from the countryside to the city, […]