If you’ve visited a brick and mortar local bank or credit union branch in the past few months, you’ve probably been asked the question, “would you like to opt in to overdraft protection service?”. On …

PerkStreet Doubles their Debit Card Rewards Program
As of this week, PerkStreet Financial (SM) is now doubling the base rewards for non-PIN based transactions to 2% (from 1% previously). You will get 2% cash …

What is Zecco Zap Trade?
Ever get tired of flipping between 3 or 4 different browser windows to keep track of your desired portfolio, real-time-quotes, and then to actually make the trade through your discount broker? …

I just got the news of a pretty amazing offer for opening a new high yield savings account with WTDirect (they claim it’s their biggest offer ever). Starting now through June 15, if you sign …

Kelly, a 20somethingfinance reader, passed along a blog post from Mark Cuban the other day that takes a different approach to basically saying the same thing I said in my post about the May 6 …

The likelihood of interest rates for bank deposits increasing from the historical lows that they are at now is pretty high. I personally have been sitting on the sideline with cash, or investing in lower …

There are days that question any remaining faith that you have in stock market investing. May 6, 2010 (today for those keeping score) is one of those days. Two odd happenings occurred on ‘the Street’ …

I just discovered the EverBank MarketSafe Diversified Metals Certificate of Deposit (CD), and thought it was a unique enough offering to give it a highlight here (I’m strongly considering it myself). For the risk averse …

Ahh…. Spring is in the air. Birds chirping, children frollicking in the park, opening day baseball, tax returns, my dog shedding clumps of hair, non-stop rain, sinus allergies…..focus, G.E., back to the positives…. flowers, ice …

What is a Trailing Stop Loss Order?
A trailing stop-loss order sounds like complex investing strategies, however, it is fairly simple to understand when you take a minute to learn what each part of it means. …