This is an essay I wrote to conclude my Google Associate Product Manager internship. Enjoy.
Imagine a world where banks are no longer needed and the stock market is no longer the primary vessel for investment returns. Prosper.com has transformed this unlikely vision into a foreseeable future by providing America’s first people-to-people lending system. Prosper offers […]
During my crazy trading stint, I was strongly considering a career change (this was before Google came along). I had interned at Microsoft the summer before as a software engineer and wasn’t 100% sure that it was the thing for me. Because I had been fairly successful in my short trading experience, I thought […]
I started seriously trading in November 2006. For about 2-3 months, I woke up for the market every day at 6:00 AM (I’m on the west coast) to trade for about an hour or two, then went back to bed. I’d wake up a little before noon and trade the closing hours from noon to […]
Here’s a question from a 15-year old on Yahoo! Answers.
Stock Market Investing For A Motivated 15 year Old?
I’m currently 15, and I’m damn tired of waiting to get through high school and college to start making some serious money. I am a very motivated, smart teenager[4.0 with honors classes] and I believe that through some […]
I’ve heard so many times from many of my friends who have been interested in investing:
“I’ve been meaning to start investing, but I don’t want to lose money.”
I’ve worked at an asset management firm, and heard from many clients:
“I want to make lots of money on stocks, but I don’t like any risk at […]
The next stage in my investing career, I followed the age old buy and hold strategy. I started my search by looking at companies I knew personally and liked. I looked up articles on fundamental analysis and examined financial statements. I attempted to look at research reports and articles about the company. I looked at […]
Seven years ago, I put $1000 of hard-earned summer money into the NASDAQ index, QQQ (now called QQQQ). For the next few weeks, I lived and breathed the market as I watched my ticker go up and down every chance I had. I’d sneak peaks in between classes. Green meant that the world revolved around […]