A simple explanation of stock market trading for kids.
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Financial literacy complements relationship, academic, career and business successes, determines financial freedom
Idea – is what you need to make money when you don’t have any and to make more money when you don’t have much
Master the game and play well else the game is played upon you – the biggest and the fastest game in the world
Numbers and formula make the rules of the money game – learn and apply them to survive and to succeed
Ones mustn’t forget to enjoy life, and love, care and respect one another – because money is not everything
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Remember the incidents when we thought that we had bought the best offer in the market, the cheapest, only to find out that the other shop is selling much cheaper. We can avoid repeating this mistake by doing market price survey prior to buying (paying). The easiest, time-savvy method is by undertaking Tactical Procurement process online. It helps us to determine what is the average and the lowest market prices for the items that we are buying. HardwareZone.com facilitates this process.
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This is a real-life story of a lady who prefers spending her money now than saving for future. Her brother tells her to invest her extra money but she don’t think so. She has other plans – buy, buy, buy. And bye, bye money!
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Amazing! It is wonderful to know that we could teach children about running a business by reading them a simple children’s story such as ‘The Elves and the Shoemaker.’ Yes, the story is not all about the elves and the shoemaker but more, it is also about running a business. Read on to know what you could learn from a simple children’s shoemaking story. Story telling to children would never be the same again because your bedtime story time is a business class session!
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Believe it or not, playing computer games could give us benefits. We could learn so many things from the games if we set our mind to learn while playing. The key to reap benefits from playing game is: do not simply play but play with strategy i.e. bring your calculator along and calculate, and write down notes and draft plans. So, the next time you see your children playing computer games, ask them what they’ve learn and could apply in real life.
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Ever run into situation where in the month end you run out of budget and have to dig into your saving? Want to know how to manage your monthly expenses better? ‘Money in the envelopes’ could be your most needed solution. My wife and I are practicing this method and we found out that it is very effective in helping us to manage our monthly expenses. As long as we don’t spend more than the cash inside the envelopes, we will be doing fine.
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An interview with Sandy Buckley, a Zazzle’s ProSeller. Hear what she answered on how she’s making money from home by selling art over the Internet. Her store profiles says, “I have opened galleries as outlets – looking for ways to market concepts as opposed to content, each gallery holding a spot near and dear to my heart.”
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The dilemma of young and schooling businessmen: should they focus on their study or their businesses? Education or business? They might not be doing well academically but they are very good in making money. Bill Gates and other college and school dropouts have made it. And Tan Sri Loh Boon Siew, who has never learned to read or write, has made it. So, what is the best advice for these money making teenagers who aren’t doing well in their studies?
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Read how my wife and I had successfully reduced clothing expenses. By reducing the dress’s cost per piece, we are able to buy more dresses (for her) and/or reallocate the extra to other needs or saving. But most importantly, by making this cost saving a family project, we bond our relationship. This ‘Project Runaway’, we called it, is also good for creative minds.
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This is an inspiring story that encourages you to help other people, without thinking of any return.
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Imagine this … you go to a Citibank’s branch and settle home loan instalment, go to HSBC’s branch and settle car loan instalment, next go to Standard Chartered’s branch to settle credit card payment and transfer money to a sister, an undergraduate student, and lastly, rush to a post office to settle utility bills. Sounds very tiring, isn’t it? You drive car, stuck in a traffic jam, avoiding car accident, pay toll, find parking, pay parking coupon or ticket, walk under the sun or in the rain and you get yourself exhausted. And maybe, you have to take half day leave to settle all these. With online banking, you can forget all these troubles.
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Ever come to a situation when you forgot what to do and when you don’t know what to do? I guess you didn’t have a to-do list. Why? Are you afraid that it would kill your freedom – directing you to do what you need to do instead of what you want to do? Do you think that it is childish, a waste of time? Or you are simply lazy to write and write? It is time to change that mind set! A to-do list could work you a miracle. It could free-up your time so that you can spend time doing what you want to do. It could make you an efficient and effective person, and ultimately, a successful person. Start today!
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If you do invest in mutual fund (a.k.a. unit trust), do you aware of ’switch’? If you don’t aware of it, then you have missed a lot of opportunities to generate more money from your mutual fund investment. As the wise saying, “Smart investors win in both good times and bad times.” ‘Switch’ offer that opportunity to win in both good times and bad times.
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Ian Kree is a Malaysian personal financial blogger based in Kuching, Sarawak. His interests are online asset, property, mutual fund and stock market investment; personal financial planning; and cost engineering. He is a unit trust consultant for Public Mutual funds. In professional field, he leads a 148-strong group of professional cost engineers in LinkedIn. Beside IanKree.com, he also runs 8vertise.com web directory. More about him »
