A-Train Finance

When I first started A-Train Finance, the blog’s mantra was this: ‘Start now, get there faster.’ The general concept is as follows: the earlier you start becoming aware of your financial well being and what it takes to save for retirement, the faster you’ll get to the point of financial security. This concept [...]

Trading Challenge: Down $818 to $8107.00.
Geez, do I hate it when I have to use the red font for my trading updates. It was a difficult week for me in the markets as I practically gave back all of the above-even gains from last week. It has now been a little over a [...]

Trading Challenge, Up $1650 to $8,920.
The last week has been a very interesting one around A-Train Finance headquarters. It’s been a few since an update, and I promise to be better about posting more often. The trading challenge is still going in full swing, currently up 11.7% since January 1st, 2008 for a [...]

I’ve been reading Tim’s blog for a few months now basically since I’ve started A-Train Finance and became part of the finance blogging community. His claim to fame? His senior year of High School he began trading and turned $12,000 dollars of Bar Mitzvah money into $1.65 Million dollars. Now just [...]

There is an epidemic sweeping across America. A virus so deadly, that it could wipe out 90% of an entire generation of Americans. Living like we’re rich before we actually are.  According to Fool.com Americans paid over $50 billion dollars in finance charges (above and beyond the original purchase price) in 2001 on their [...]