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Use a Tivo, Vulkano Flow, Slingbox, or cable provider app to watch your home TV on another computer. Power E-Trade Pro also comes with free streaming CNBC. Here's a link that provides some info around that...

Replace your hard drive with an SSD. Best bang for the buck. Also upgrade to Windows 7. It's much faster than XP or Vista. If your laptop is older than 3 years, you probably should just get a new laptop (which will come with Win 7) and replace the hard drive with an SSD. You'll have a...

You can access a full list of ETF's in an Excel file from the NYSE site: http://www.nyse.com/attachment/NYSEArca_Equities_LMMs.xls

Can you explain the difference between the 2 prices? How are they different and why? I'm just looking to be educated. Thanks.

My understanding is that margin is usually not available for retirement accounts, but it's possible that different brokers have different policies on this.

I agree. Sell puts on good dividend yielders. The only downside is that it ties up your capital and/or margin.

That IOGear solution looks good. That device gets 4 stars on Amazon and NewEgg right now and they run about $75. It says that you can run up to 6 monitors at a time using these. Of course you would have to buy 6 of them for $75 each to run that many monitors. It also says not to put them...

It also looks like PortfolioXL integrates with TD Ameritrade, so it most likely works for the Canadian counterpart TD Waterhouse.

Here's an interesting one. Look at the product called PortfolioXL. http://www.analyzerxl.com/index.htm As best as I can tell, it offers: - Multiple portfolio tracking - Data import/export - P/L updating based on data from Yahoo! - Customization since it's in Excel (could be used for...

You mentioned that sometimes the brokers have mistakes on their statements. I assume this means that you want to enter the data yourself rather than import it from their systems? I don't have much experience dealing with multiple currencies. What exactly is your requirement for this? Do...

How many trades do you make per year?

Here's a great article on setting up multiple monitors, including info about how to mount them and how to tweak your Windows desktop on them. http://daggle.com/my-multimonitor-setup-three-screens-for-one-computer-76

What brokerage do you use? Most, if not all, brokerage accounts should be able to provide you with that information on their web portal or within their trading software.

One gold mining stock that has been beating the price of gold (on a percentage basis) is TRE - Tanzanian Royalty Exploration. The nice thing about the miners is that they are essentially getting more money for doing the same amount of work as the price of gold rises (even slowly).

What's complicated about paying taxes on income? You have to learn the tax law, you have to account for all of your income, which may have come from multiple tenants (including the receipt and return of security deposits, pet fees, etc...). You have to account for all of your expenses...