A Few Expenses That Shouldn’t Be Spared

As a follow up to my ‘living within your means’ post, I thought I’d discuss a few things that the ‘cheap factor’ should not be applied to. It’s not the best idea to get the cheapest of everything, and here are a few of those things (in no particular order).
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A-Train Finance Forums Soft Launch

Some of you may have noticed that I added a ‘forums’ link to the menu bar at the top of the page recently.  I’m currently testing out and prepping the discussion forms for use and it is ready for initial usage.  It’s very exciting for me to be able to provide a place for readers [...]

How Do You Know When You’re Out Of Invisible Ink?

How do you know when you’re out of invisible ink? You don’t. It took me a couple years of financial irresponsibility in my ‘youth’ to make the realizations that I’ve finally come to. It is very necessary to have a budget or at least a ’spending plan’ to stay on track [...]

Interesting Pattern Developing & Most I’ve Ever Made In 10 Minutes

It was an interesting morning at A-Train Financial™ Headquarters (my bedroom) today.  Not only was today the biggest gain in trading challenge history (almost 3 weeks now?), but the continuation of a very interesting pattern also occurred. Since I started the challenge I’ve made six round trip trades, which may not seem like a lot [...]

Ten Rules Of Life

This is a guest post by my brother-in-law from Silicon Valley. I think he has some great insight in these 10 rules of life.
Hello all,
So I know there are a lot of young people (at least younger than me!) reading this blog. Some of you aren’t married or don’t even know [...]