Mister Finance
Financial insights, commentary, and advice.


Corporate Bonds Part II – Unsecured Bonds
Posted on January 9th, 2006 on
Corporations often issue secured or unsecured bonds to raise cash. A long-term, unsecured corporate bond is called a debenture. Unlike secured bo...

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Corporate Bonds Part I
Posted on December 19th, 2005 on
What are Corporate Bonds? Corporations issue bonds as a way of borrowing money. In return for that money, the company agrees to pay the investo...

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Bought @ My Urging
Posted on November 10th, 2005 on
The next series of posts that I will be writing will focus on options contracts. I trade these myself, but I do want to fully disclose here th...

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Investing in Bonds
Posted on October 23rd, 2005 on
While bonds aren’t nearly as exciting to invest in as stocks, they’re the investment of choice for many people. Even those wh...

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Time To Borrow!
Posted on September 24th, 2005 on
I grabbed my nearest credit card with a limit of around $10,000 or so and took out a cash advance for the $10,000 to re-buy back some of those st...

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A Margin Call?
Posted on September 22nd, 2005 on
I thought things could never go wrong. I was going to be a millionaire at this rate long before even my most optimistic views. I was a financial st...

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Hang On!!
Posted on September 20th, 2005 on
The buying of these new stocks fueled my stock market interest and as these new companies I bought also began moving higher and higher I thought th...

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And Higher We Go…!
Posted on September 17th, 2005 on
It soon thereafter moved up to the $7.50 mark which meant I now owned those 100 shares for $750, again in a very short time period! I told my...

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The Roller Coaster Continues…
Posted on September 15th, 2005 on
At this point in time, savings accounts were probably returning anywhere between 3-5% annual rate of return depending on which financial institution yo...

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Reliving The Roller Coaster Pt. 2
Posted on September 14th, 2005 on
So again let us focus and visit my own personal financial life during this time period and re-live my roller coaster ride! I did have a job at...

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My Personal Roller Coaster Ride
Posted on September 12th, 2005 on
Let’s talk about emotions and let’s also explore a real life story pertaining to rising and falling with stocks! I can face fa...

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