{"id":8,"date":"2006-04-03T21:04:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2006-06-29T01:02:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T07:02:57","slug":"opened-my-first-trading-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/8\/","title":{"rendered":"Opened my first trading account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just finished my application for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstrade.com\">Firstrade<\/a> account, my first equities trading account, and soon will be funding it with some cash to take advantage of the free trades made available for new-traders. Granted, these trading comissions are very low, and I could probably gain the same amount from putting the money in a CoD for 6 months, but it&#8217;s a fine gesture nonetheless on the part of my new broker, and in the mean time (hopefully) I will make money on the money invested through my account far surpassing a modest CD interest rate.<\/p>\n<p>This will be my second actual brokerage account, my first being my Vanguard account with some holdings in the Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Mutal Fund (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?d=t&#038;s=VTSMX\">VTSMX<\/a>). This new account through Firstrade will be for my holdings in specific equities, and thus riskier. Only time will tell how well it will pay off, and given that I am young, I have quite a bit of time to wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just finished my application for a Firstrade account, my first equities trading account, and soon will be funding it with some cash to take advantage of the free trades made available for new-traders. Granted, these trading comissions are very low, and I could probably gain the same amount from putting the money in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","category-finance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tMp-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}