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2009 Bloggers' Stockpicking Competition Results: Up 56.14% for the year

Posted by Preet on Dec 31, 2009 | 1 comment

So as the trading year for 2009 has come to a close it’s time to reflect on the results of the 2009 Bloggers’ Stockpicking Contest. My four picks averaged +56.14% for the year. Here is a more detailed recap of the individual picks… (full rankings at bottom of this post) EDC.us: Direxion Emerging Markets 3X Bull, up 158.66%. This is a triple leveraged ETF trading in the US which seeks to track 300% of the daily performance of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. As I’ve mentioned before, with any daily leveraged ETF you have to be right in direction and path over longer periods of time, and luckily this one worked out. ENA.to: Enablence Technologies,...

Ramblings…

Posted by Preet on Dec 30, 2009 | 7 comments

The last week has been pretty eventful: My personal email account was hacked and a spam email was sent to pretty much everyone in my personal contacts list (730). What is scary about this one was that the email shows up in my sent items folder – needless to say, all my passwords have been changed. I bought a 52″ TV on Boxing Day – my first Boxing Day purchase that I can remember. I had just bought a PS3 so I figured, might as well get something that can show 1080P! (For all the audiophiles or home theatre geeks out there [Cajun?], I don’t actually want a 5.1 or 7.1 system to complement the TV but rather a 2.1 or 2.0 – any suggestions for a...

How Much Are Tickets For The Men's Gold Medal Round Ice Hockey Game in Vancouver 2010?

Posted by Preet on Dec 22, 2009 | 8 comments

With the Olympics coming up, and a slight possibility that I might be in town for the Games I was interested in finding out the prices of tickets for various events (although expecting less than good news). Well, if you were looking for tickets to the Gold Medal round of the Men’s Ice Hockey event you could possibly be looking at $16,500 per seat according to the highest bids on the official Olympics ticket scalping site. Of course, they refer to it as simply the “Fan-to-Fan” section of the ticketing section of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics official website. Here is the screenshot: (You can click on the image to enlarge it) Absurd. The face value of the...

How Much Did Avatar Cost To Make?

Posted by Preet on Dec 21, 2009 | 0 comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll know that James Cameron’s latest movie, Avatar, is now playing in theatres. Cameron is known for making some pretty big blockbusters like T2 and Titanic and both of those had large budgets and special effects that pushed the envelope. Avatar is no different. Rumours were that the real cost of the movie, which was four years in the making, was almost $500 million, but more official comments have that number closer to $200 million. I’m pretty sure the real number lies somewhere in between. The worldwide opening weekend take was about $240 million (US) and my friend took me to see it tonight, and he had...

A Lap Of The Blogs

Posted by Preet on Dec 18, 2009 | 6 comments

If you are new to WhereDoesAllMyMoneyGo.com, every Friday I run a post called “A Lap Of The Blogs” which provides links to articles I found interesting and think that others may want to read for themselves. I also sometimes include some commentary on what’s going on in my personal life and a weekly “racing video” since my former life was in the auto-racing industry. The name “Lap of the Blogs” is in reference to “A Lap Of The Gods” which is an old video series which chronicled on-board footage of the world’s greatest F1 drivers lapping various racetracks from around the world. NOTE: you have to visit the actual website to see the embedded video – it...

Big Changes for Cellphone Competition in Canada for 2010?

Posted by Preet on Dec 15, 2009 | 5 comments

You may have heard on the news last week that Globalive has been allowed to offer cellular phone service to Canadians (Industry Canada made the announcement on Friday). Bell, Telus and Rogers collectively lost $2.4 billion in stock value that day. Globalive is launching a new brand (new to Canada, anyways): WIND Mobile. They just announced on their website that they are having a launch party of sorts tomorrow (today if you are getting the email updates), so one could expect that they will announce their full pricing lineup at that time. I’ve heard through the grapevine that their plans will look as follows, but note that these are unconfirmed at this time: Chat:...

Stream Videos From Your Computer To Your TV and Get a Free Blu-Ray Player and Playstation 3

Posted by Preet on Dec 14, 2009 | 10 comments

Yeah, so let me explain the title of this blog post with a little preamble. A few weeks ago I decided to cut down on our TV bill by scaling back the channels and upping our internet package (we were on the very basic of the basic which made streaming videos painful). With all the TV shows you can stream, and an iTunes account for basically everything else, there is not much point in having a fancy TV package. Of course, to make things more comfortable to watch I wanted to be able to watch anything on the main TV in the living room. My first thought was that there must be a way to wirelessly stream video from my computer to my TV. After doing a bit of research I found...