Author Archive

• Site Review: StockTwits Desktop – Your Personal Investment Community
  My1000Dollars, | October 14th, 2009 at 8:46 am

  

  I’ve mentioned StockTwits many times in the past on my blog.  It is certainly a fast growing community featuring suite of investors offering valuable stock discussions every day, live.  Now StockTwits has recently launched a newly developed tool more powerful than ever, empowering investors with a vast amount of information at their fingertips.

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• Interview: Steve Place, a Professional Options Trader, and His Three Pillars of Investment Knowledge
  My1000Dollars, | August 25th, 2009 at 10:08 am

  

  Steve Place (Twitter @stevenplace) has come a long way since his time posting stock discussion videos drinking a beer on a Wednesday night.  Contrary to the typical perception of an electrical engineer’s career path, Steve took full advantage of the knowledge he amassed studying electrical engineering in college to build what is now a noteworthy investing career.  Now a professional options trader managing his own premium site Investing With Options (part of the StockTwits Network), he is banking bucks alright.

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• Interview: Chris Nelder, an Autodidactic Energy Expert
  My1000Dollars, | August 3rd, 2009 at 11:27 pm

  

  Chris Nelder is your go-to guy when it comes to energy.  With almost a decade of extensive research under his belt, Chris’ knowledge and passion in energy cannot be topped by many.  What’s really interesting about Chris though, is that he has quite an unique background.  Describing himself as an autodidactic polymath, he’s held a hundred different jobs in the past and is on his 5th career now.  With education in English, psychology, and computer science, he’s been involved as a technical writer, a software engineer, a book publisher, an entrepreneur, a blogger, and now an energy expert writing articles for Energy and Capital. Now try topping that background!

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• Interview: Jim G, Wait @Aiki14.
  My1000Dollars, | July 16th, 2009 at 8:30 am

  

  ... There is no substitute for hard work. Don’t look for shortcuts, or easy ways, they are fools errands. Instead be a sponge for information, read everything you can get your hands on, pay attention to what the folks you respect are saying, and learn...

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