Should We Say No to Venmo?
As a college student as well as a Finance major, I’ve learned to be pretty frugal when it comes to spending my hard-earned cash. I realize the importance of investing and maintaining a healthy savings account. So I try to limit my nights out when I can because they...
The Best Free Apps for Personal Finance
I recently published a pulse post on my LinkedIn about the best free apps to manage your personal finance and I wanted to share it here as well, since it's pertinent to the theme of this site. Feel free to follow the link to the original post as well! Without further...
Futures Trading 101-Part 1: What is Futures Trading?
As a finance major, people will sometimes ask me what interests me about that field or what my favorite thing about it is. The simple answer to that question is that I grew up outside of New York City and my mother and uncles worked in finance, so I was surrounded by...
Tips to Avoid Overspending This Holiday Season
The holiday season is officially upon us, and you know what that means, right? Well, it means lots of things, really. For most, It means holiday tunes on the radio, twinkling lights and decorations, spending time with family and friends, preparing and eating...
3 Awesome Finance Podcasts
If you're going to be in finance, you're going to have to read. A lot. As a student, I am inundated in fundamental texts on a daily basis, but textbooks set aside, there is just a lot of reading that goes into the job—pouring over reports, staring at data to identify...
Black Friday Mirror: 5 Investing Nightmares for the 21st Century
It's Halloween, which means its the time of the year where (people dressed as) ghouls and goblins emerge from their creepy, crawly places to spook us out. Depending, on what information you have access to, that isn't the only spooky thing happening. Tensions are high...
How Presidents Affect Stocks: From the Whole to the Particular
Over this past election season, the press has been riddled with headlines proclaiming "6 Stocks to Buy If Donald Trump Is Elected", "Trump-friendly stocks fall as candidate comes unshackled", "Best Stocks for a Hillary Clinton Presidency". When it comes to the stock...
The Holy Trinity of Stock Trading Apps
Ten years ago, no one would have imagined that it would be possible to manage you stocks from nearly anywhere with the help of your phone. Today, mobile trading is a very convenient way to constantly keep an eye on market prices, and even buy and trade. Although there...
Mastering Your Personal Finances Tastes Like Mint
There are a lot of great financial tools out there, but one of the coolest and most useful personal finance tools that I've come across is Mint. No, I was not paid to make this post (but if you do want to throw me a little something, Mint, I wouldn't mind). It's just...
How to Save Money as a College Student: Food
As a college student, it’s dawned on me that as much as I knew about finance before coming to school, there were so much about managing finances in school that I learned along the way. This column is devised to help college students like myself get an edge on the...