Investors Blog Network (IBN) Festival #18

Welcome to the Investors Blog Network (IBN) Festival #18. This carnival is a bi-weekly collection of commentary on personal finance, investing, and other business related topics. Articles are collected from member blogs of the Investors Blog Network (IBN).

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Editor’s Top 5 Picks

1. A Great Way to Change Your Portfolio @ Free Money Finance — Excellent idea to rebalance your portfolio without incurring any capital gains tax, and getting tax deduction instead.
2. 8 Reasons Why the Dollar Will Continue to Fall @ Invest with Dax — Great post about the weakening Dollar and 8 reasons why it will continue to drop.
3. How to Make Money Off Interest Free Credit Card Offers @ Bentley Humphreys — A very thorough and interesting discussion of the credit card arbitrage game. How would you like to make some free money?
4. Collateralized Debt Obligations - What the Heck Are They, How Do They Affect You, and Why (The He…) Should You Care? @ Debt Free — An excellent primer on collateralized debt obligations and the credit market.
5. Fantasy v. Reality @ TheWildInvestor — Great stock picking ability as it correlates to great fantasy football team management skill. Interesting!

Investing

• California Dreamin’ — Incentive Stock Options and the Silicon Valley Workerbee @ The Baglady — Here is a smack of reality for low ranking people working for private companies…the rich get richer…go figure.
• Are we going for rebound next week? @ StockWeb – Since I have the ultimate crystal ball of time, I can say NO — and the January Effect is not real either.
• Investing mistakes to avoid @ Personal Financier — Excellent list of 10 common investing mistakes.
• Where’s Waldo? - The illusion of superior professional mutual fund manager performance @ The Skilled Investor Blog — Finding good mutual fund manager with consistently superior performance is not as easy as it sounds. The “Where’s Waldo?” dilemma.
• Buffett on Diversification @ Breaking the Shackles of the 9 to 5 — Diversification is not Warren Buffett’s cup of tea, should it be yours?
• Bullish movement in STEC @ Highest Conviction — Provides a technical analysis of STEC Solid State Drive technology and a brief discussion about the future of this technology.

Money

• Top 21 List of Financial Software and Application for Efficient Money Management @ KCLau’s Money Tips — Great list of money management software.
• Is A Recession Coming? @ My Wealth Builder — A nice introduction to the basic definition of recession and what we can do to prepare for it.
• Why Taking on a Mortgage Is Leveraging: Understanding the Potential Risks and Benefits @ Personal Financier — An easy to understand demonstration of leverage.
• Practical Life Lessons From My Dog @ Dividend Money — Nice article that reminds us to enjoy the really important stuff in life.
• Become A Millionaire In 10 Years!!!!! @ Investinator — A demonstration of compound interest.

Miscellaneous

• Why do poor people always win the lottery? @ My Investing Blog – A sad but true story about how a lottery game had to be scrapped because of negative numbers. The post also goes into further detail about lottery in general.
• Go “Outside The Box” for Great Holiday Gifts @ My Money Thinks — Some additional ideas for holiday gift giving.
• Quick Guide to Create an E-Commerce Website @ Gaizer.com Tips for Business Start-ups — Basic primer on getting an e-commerce website up and running
• Use PPP to make money when your blog traffic is low @ TechnoMoney — Shares how even blogs with low traffic can generate hundreds of dollar a month leveraging the Pay Per Post program.
• What kind of trader are you? @ A Trade A Day — An entertaining editorial on people who label themselves as such and such trader. What kind of trader are you? I am the slow and steady kind.

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