Pot Stocks: Something to Think About

Pot Stocks: Something to Think About

Are pot stocks worth the investment or will you just be sending you money up in smoke? (Like what I did there?) I’ve been thinking about them for a while now. While I don’t think I’d recommend them as somewhere you’d want to put your entire retirement fund, my interest in them continues to grow…

Why the Stock Market is NOT Like Russian Roulette

Occasionally I overhear things that make me cringe – or make me remember why I write this blog. The first day of rehearsals at my new job, I was busy setting up my rehearsal room and checking some final things while the cast were sitting around chatting. The conversation to turned to saving and investing…

Acorns: An App for Planting Your Pennies

Acorns: An App for Planting Your Pennies

Finding money to sock away for the future can be pretty difficult. Whether you’re living paycheck to paycheck or funneling everything towards paying off your debt, how can you ever expect to get ahead? Acorns is an app that could help you start saving for the future. After you download the app, you connect your…

Are You Ready to Have a Kapitall Time?

Are You Ready to Have a Kapitall Time?

**This is a sponsored post and Kapitall comped my buy in for this tournament. But I am freaking in love with the Magic K Ball. With the what? Read on.** Do you love poker AND the stock markets? Because I’ve found a site for you. Kapitall lets you play the stock market before playing the…

Why Gold and Silver Are Great Long Term Investments

Why Gold and Silver Are Great Long Term Investments

As you all probably know by now, I’m not the best choice for investment advice. However, it really does interest me, since it’s one of the next financial steps I’d like to stop sucking become proficient in. With that in mind, here’s a great guest post from Tony over at Trading Slugger. He’s actually got…

5 Stocks I'm Watching

5 Stocks I’m Watching

So I’m finally approaching the part of the year where I can buy some stocks. If you read The Broke and Beautiful Life, you may have seen Stefanie’s article last week where she asked if she should invest in herself or herself? She mentioned that when she has large goals, she likes to save by…

This Idiot’s Guide to Buying Stocks

Disclaimer: You probably shouldn’t follow my stock picking advice. I really have very little idea what I’m doing. But almost everything I read about how to pick stocks is super overwhelming to me and I thought I might not be the only one who feels the same. So… from someone equally overwhelmed, here’s what I…

Wall Street Survivor

Wallstreetsurvivor.com – my new favorite toy. It gives you $100,000 to “play” the stock market. You invest in what you want and watch it grow – or not.  So far, I am not doing great. I researched a few stocks in two markets I was curious about – one was value/discount chains (I read an…

WTF is this Stock Market Thing? (Step 1)

By every account I’ve found so far, if I want any hope of not retiring to a cardboard box under an overpass, I will need to invest in stocks (or write the next Harry Potter book). To me, this is terrifying on many levels: A. I do not want to live under an overpass. There…