Full Disclosure Finance

By Justin
Naked (uncovered ) puts are a useful way to earn some money with low risk if you intend to purchase the stock anyway and don’t need to get in immediately.
You are “naked” when you sell a put (the put guarantees you will buy X shares on contract at the strike price if exercised) without a corresponding short position [...]

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By Justin
So by now everyone is asking how they can open a TFSA and every financial institution is loving the attention. However, there are some important things to note before opening up your account.  

Some banks charge fees for account transactions while others do not 
It is more than just a “Savings” account
Know the rules regarding [...]

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By Andrew
I’ve decided to start a new segment of posts on the site called “On the Radar”. When I come across a stock that catches my interest i’ll outline the story in post form so you can see my justification for why I like the stock. This will help me perform thorough research on my [...]

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By Andrew,
Lately I have been trying to implement the deep-in-the-money calls options strategy that I explain in a recent post through my paper trading account at Investopedia. On April 22nd I outlined our first success with Microsoft calls and a second idea with Corning Inc. With the stock trading at $25.73 I bought 10 of the August $20 calls [...]

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By Andrew,
On April 4th I wrote a post on implementing the deep-in-the-money calls strategy with Microsoft calls. To recap I bought 10 of the July 2008 $24.00 calls for $5.15 on March 26th. Sometime last week the July calls reached our target of $6.15 and the good-till-canceled limit order executed to lock in our $1000 [...]

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By Andrew,
In a recent post I commented on the Visa (V) IPO and how I thought you should play it. The post was also published on Seeking Alpha, which is a financial site that publishes stock related posts from various blog sites and individual contributors. On the Seeking Alpha post a number of readers have left comments [...]

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By Andrew
The Dow was down nearly 300 points today lead by commodities with Gold making its biggest drop since June of 2006 and Crude Oil down nearly 5%. Yet Wall Street still managed to pull off the Largest IPO in US history. Late Tuesday Visa (V) priced the 406 million shares of their Initial Public [...]

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By Andrew
In my last post I disclosed a holding in Sandvine Corp. (SVC.TO) and had promised a full fundamental analysis on the company. Well it was a rough week last week for shareholders of Sandvine. On Thursday Sandvine announced that they were cutting their 2008 revenue forecast to $80-85 million from the previous $100-110 million. [...]

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By Andrew
Its been a while since my last stock purchase update, so I wanted to bring everyone up to speed on my current holdings. I’ll state the number of shares, the purchase price of the stock, and a brief justification for the purchase.
1. 50 shares of Research in Motion (RIMM) @ $87.03
This holding was actually a [...]

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By Andrew,
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 2 weeks you probably have heard about the Microsoft offer for Yahoo!. After what has seemed like endless speculation, Microsoft finally announced that they are officially pursuing a deal for internet conglomerate. The unsolicited offers has Microsoft paying $42 billion dollars or approximately $31 per share for [...]

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