Hi Everyone, It's almost Halloween weekend. Does anybody have any scary investing stories? One of the first stocks one of my clubs bought was a telcom stock during the telcom bubble in the late 1990's. It certainly scared us. As it dropped, we realized we ...
Hi Club Cafe - New Member here with some questions on investment club structure. I want to help groups of investors form investment clubs. These clubs have agreed to pay me for administrative services and accounting services (organizing club meetings, minutes, accounting). I will not ...
Hello, I failed to update bivio with new brokerage login and password after brokerage required new login information. I have not used bivio in a few months. Everything is now out of whack. Stocks we've purchased and sold are not up to date. Does anyone ...
The Microsoft earnings conference call is this afternoon, 5:30 EDT. You can sign up to listen to it here: http://www.microsoft.com/investor/Events/default.aspx It's always fascinating to listen to these and then to read the journalists interpretations of what was said. It definitely gives you perspective on how ...
Greetings, I wanted to see if anyone has wording in their partnership agreement that penalizes members for withdrawing. I've heard that some clubs do, but most don't and just wanted some advice. Thank you in advance! Johnny
We have a 1% of the withdrawal amount or $100 whichever is more. In a message dated 10/27/2010 6:24:35 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, duncanjohnny@bivio.com writes: Greetings, I wanted to see if anyone has wording in their partnership agreement that penalizes members for withdrawing. I've heard ...
The second judgment you will need to predict Microsoft's earnings tomorrow is an estimate of their net margin for the quarter. Margin will be affected by their expenses. It's a long way from the top line of a companies income statement (Sales) to the very ...
One of the judgments you'll need to make to project first quarter earnings for Microsoft is the percentage that revenue has grown since the same quarter a year ago. At that time, quarterly revenue(sales) were $12920 Million. There are various places you can go for ...
Hi Everyone, Here's a fun activity. Let's see who can come the closest to predicting what Microsoft will announce as Earnings Per Share when it reports on Thursday. I will offer as a prize to the club who comes closest, $20 in bivio bucks toward ...
Unfortunately our club has decided that it's time to disband. I read through the instructions and I'm wondering if, since it's so close to the end of the year, we can sell all of our stocks and liquidate and then complete a tax return like ...
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Do you own or are you interested in any of these stocks? They were all discussed during last weeks Dashboard Diagnostics session. The review also discussed the real portfolio of a bivio club that has learned to manage their portfolio very successfully. If you're interested ...
Just a reminder, the Manifest Investing Challenge Club is meeting online tonight (Tuesday) at 8PM EDT. Join us online to participate in the discussion or just to listen and get ideas. It's free and everyone is welcome to attend. Register now at www.bivio.com/club_cafe -- Laurie ...
Hi everyone, I was thinking this morning about how exciting it must be to be an accountant who works for Apple today. Their 4th quarter earnings will be released this afternoon and speculation is rampant on what the numbers will be. On October 1, the ...
WE HAVE A MOTHER-DAUGHTER COMBINATION THAT ISN'T WORKING OUT. MOM WANTED DAUGHTER IN THE CLUB AND DAUGHTER WASN'T REALLY INTERSSTED . MOM NOW WANTS TO BUY OUT DAUGHTER, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO SELL STOCK TO PAY DAUGHTER OFF. HOW DO I DO THAT, AS ...