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I haven't used any tablets because I stayed glued to my desk all day but I will get someone over here who recently bought one (that is providing he has used it and didn't gift it for x-mas lol).
HELP!!!
This may be a no-brainer but...
Does anybody recommend a tablet I can use while I'm away from my PC to monitor my trades and ihub postages? I don't always stay put in one place for work and my blackberry is crazy slow when it comes to internet - besides the fact I need a microscope to see the screen.
ipad will most likely be an answer here but I've not been an apple user aside from my ipod (but I could learn) have heard about the kindle fire (but that it's more for movies and stuff not internet speed) saw a visio 8" tablet at a store on black friday but knw nothing about it.
Thanks, your input is appreciated!
Try this site:http://www.factoring-company.us/factoring-fees.html
Factoring Fees Explained
The important point to understand about Factoring is this: The advanced funding you receive for your receivables and the discount fees you will pay are based soley on the financial strength and credit worthiness of your customers, not your business! Discount rates will also vary depending on the total dollar amount you intend to factor on a monthly basis (volume discounts apply). Having said that, it is also important to understand that specific rates or fees for factoring your businesses receivables cannot be promised or quoted without knowing anything about your customers, your business, or the invoice amounts you wish to factor.
You will find that some factoring web sites are advertising a seemingly low discount rate that is presumed to be the rate any business will get if they factor with them. Understand that this is a ploy and is only a baited hook to get you on the phone! Once they have you on the phone and review all of your receivables it is only then you will learn the real factoring fees they intend to charge you!
Here we provide you with some examples of how the fees and funding can work. If you are interested in receiving an exact quote for factoring your invoices, please fill out our very simple getting started information form. A factoring specialist will contact you for a free consultation to tailor a factoring solution and fee structure that best fits your business. The information is free and the quote is yours to accept or decline.
Sample Fee Structure and Funding
Advanced Funding
When you send in an invoice to be Factored you will usually receive between 70% and 90% funding of the invoice amount within 24 hours after the invoice has been verified (depending on the invoice amount and the business paying the invoice). This is your advanced funding. Advanced funding is wired to your business bank account.
Discount Rate = Factoring Fee
The Factoring fee can range between 2.5% and 3.5% per 30 days, or .1% per day the invoice is unpaid after factoring. Keep in mind that factoring fees are tailored to the individual needs of your business and customer base.
Length of Time for Payment Sample Discount Rate
Per day 0.1%
30 days 3%
45 days 4.5%
60 days 6%
75 days 7.5%
90 days 9%
Remainder of the Advance minus the Factoring Fee
When your customer pays the invoice you will receive the remainder of the advanced funding, minus the Factoring fee (discount rate).
EXAMPLE
Lets say you have a customer ABC Company that owes your business $100,000 for a shipment of your widgets just delivered. ABC Company is a large customer that has good credit but they never pay their suppliers (you) any sooner than 45 days. Instead of anxiously waiting 45 days to get your $100,000, this time you decide to use Factoring to improve your cash flow. The Factoring company verifies your invoice to ABC Company and you receive 80% of the $100,000 ($80,000) within 24 hours, wired to your bank account. If you have a discount rate similar to the sample shown above and ABC Company pays the $100,000 invoice in about 45 days, this equals a factoring fee of 4.5% of the original $100,000 ($4500). Since you have already received an advance of $80,000 from the factor, you will receive the remaining $20,000 minus the factoring fee of $4500 ($15500). Therefore, in the end you collected $95500 of the original $100,000 invoice. However, this time you did not have to wait the usual 45 days to get your money. This time you received $80,000 up front in one day, and collected the remaining $15500 in 45 days.
Factoring: Cash Now! - No Waiting
What are costs of NOT Factoring?
Given the example above consider the time value of money and the benefits of improved cash flow to your business. By having cash for your invoices within 24 hours are you able to pay your suppliers faster and receive better discounts? Are you able to fulfill your next order to XYZ Company and make payroll without tapping your line of credit at the bank? Can you offer longer terms to larger customers and attract more business? Can improved cash flow help your business grow or survive without incurring more debt at the bank? Can the financial benefits of improved cash flow to your business offest the fees of Factoring, and then some? In many cases factoring is a smart business decision.
When is Factoring NOT a good fit for a business?
LOW MARGINS - If your business is running on low margins (less than 10%), factroing may not be right for you.
PLENTY OF CASH ON HAND - If you have a cash rich business free of cash flow concerns, factoring does not make sense for your business.
What are Factoring Fees in a 10Q?
I looked around and couldn't find what it is. Someone please explain. I'm trying to understand fillings and just wondering what costs are associated with this. Obviously an expense, that's all I know. Give examples, they help!
Thanks, Gulley
There are a number of factors that you didn't mention. You mentioned American Century Investments. Did they throw it all in one high tech fund or did they allocate it to a few different funds? Also, your age has a lot to do with where you put your money. Is this retirement money you will need fairly soon or are you young and we are talking over 20 years?
If you have time before you plan on retiring I would say that leaving your money in a guaranteed interest account isn't a good idea. As you mentioned you were making nothing in that account.
That said, I am not a fan of putting everything in one basket. I don't know who advised you, but why couldn't they divide that 16k into multiple funds? You may feel a bit more comfortable if you do that. But, when you are in mutual funds long term you are better off not looking at them constantly. Right now the market had taken a few hits and everyone's funds are down. Six months from now they can be down more or they could be up considerably. That is something that none of us can predict but it is the nature of the stock market. I can tell you this. I have a certain amount of my nest egg money in mutuals. When the market crashed in 2008 they dropped considerably - lost almost half their value. A few years later they were back where they originally were. Not telling you what to do but that is something to think about. You need to really think about when you need that money.
Those are all very volatile securities right now. Perhaps you should tell them to move you into a lower risk area, maybe mutual funds. Any type of investing involves risk, talk to a financial professional. JMHO
Help! I'm losing everything in my IRA.
I don't know if this is the place to go to get advice, but I've had money in my Company's IRA for nearly 3 years and have earned 90 cents on 16,000. I do better than that with my money market!
So I wanted to move my retirement fund into something with the potential for more earnings. The guy told me about one where I could earn up to 25% or lose up to 15%, so I thought, well, I'll give that a shot for a while. I thought that 25% and 15% was over the course of a year, NOT a month! I lost 15% in less than 4 weeks!
With this trend, I'll lose the entire $16,000 in a few more months!
Is this normal? Should I let it ride? I asked him specifically if the current trend for this fund was earning or losing. He obviously knew it was losing and just told me, "Well, it depends, blah blah." No straight answer. I feel I flushed my money down the toilet and got rotten advice from him! His goal is to get people to risk their money most likely.
What advice can I get here? Should I move it back to the 0 risk, 0 interest fund, or should I let it ride? Maybe I should invest 1K in there, put the rest back, and when the 1K starts increasing, move the money back.
Please help. Oh, this is American Century Investments, and it's their highest risk fund with stuff like Google, AT&T, Amazon, Netflix and stuff like that. Plus a bunch of pharmaceuticals.
Thanks!
'?' column; this indicates that the trade cannot be identified as either a 'Buy' or a 'Sell'.
what does the ? mean in the trades chart? there is "buys" and "sell" and then there is "?"
GENERAL QE3 QUESTION:
So I'm new to ihub and been trading/investing since post QE2. Having said that, assuming the Fed Chairman gives the impression of a QE3 or actually does it...what is the best play in anticipation of that? Which stocks are going to benefit the most from QE3 so that I can get the most return for my buck?
Thanks,
To be honest with you, I know nothing about offtake agreements. I am a very short term trader vs an investor so I wouldn't know anything about long term effects of a contract like that. It would make sense that the stock would initially go up, knowing they are negotiating beforehand. If anyone reading this knows about offtakes chime in. I would love to hear about it.
In general, as a result of an off take agreement, it seems that it's expected that share prices go up. I did a little research of companies who had off take agreements, share price went up and then slowly tailed back down. The slow drop did coincide with a market down turn but I was wondering if anyone knows the trends when it comes to an off take. Very new to stocks so just trying to get more info. Anybody?
I got it iam happy thanks I guess u have to wait to get in or a l2.. Thanks i would watch it it will take off with news..
it is now even and both levels are showing .025 - try putting your order in now
Yea thanks its hard to figure it out.. Is it mabey because mms,are just trading themselves.. Thanks for your help just trying to get the best price..
i have seen it before where level I doesn't update or sometimes level i is accurate and level ii isn't - right now it just shifted and shows level ii .25 and level i .30 - whacky quote system on that one
Why doees iy show a false ask and bid alot of people dont have l2s.. I put a large bid higher than ask can they cover it..
Thanks its the same one I was talking about awhile back I dont have l2 but its frustrating 2 hrs later and not filled something is up mabey they dont have enough to cover me that is good thing, a...
It should. I have had times where I would put in an order a the ask and my share amount is much higher and I think I will take the ask out and not get the entire fill but I do anyhow. If you are bidding higher than the ask you should have no problem unless the ask is very thin and there aren't that many shares offered even at the next price. It is difficult to answer not seeing level II. Sometimes when you place a trade it goes true to the way level II is being represented and other times it doesn't.
If the bid has 20000 and the ask has 10000 and I put in a,higher bid price over the ask and a higher amout of share over the ask will it be filled..
If the bid is .25 and try to use the ask and it will not so I bid higher,than the ask will it fill higher both times I tried is it because I want more shares than what they are offering?
Does anyone know how I can get my iPad to work on streaming and level 2?I don't have
Safari and it isn't available but I didn't know if anyone else had an iPad and could tell me how to do it.thanks
thanx much!!!
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Thank you fir your help. I will keep an eyee on it..,
Look at my wach list starts with a g. I dont have pm thank u for your help
It is difficult to answer that since i didn't see it and even if I did it would be speculative. But, yes, that is suspicious that one print would bring it down that much and then 20X that only brings it up 10% - sounds dilutive to me.
It was a short its very obvious but my question is why it goe down so much for 500 and all day it took 10000 or more to trade to get back up 10%?
First trade in the mornong was 500 went down 33% then I was lookong at onother board that I have stock also with and he had all short trades for 5 days straight my stock that had tge 500 trade that went down 33% first thing was liated on thwre and about 2000 more stocks shorted..
Thank you!! very helpful!
u can't know for sure if that was a short - u didn't mention the size of the buy that increased it 10% - was that 500 shares too?
I thought it was about 12000 or little more..
how many shares traded for the whole day? sounds like a very thinly traded stock and that is probably why they swings
It was the same price as the bid for two hrs and the 500 was on the short list dailly report on friday.
stockview, here is that board I was thinking about:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=7145
Was your bid lower than the current bid? And how do u know in that other instance it was short?
Well if it eventually turns into a shell and another company reverses into it then, in that situation, may be advantageous to the shareholders. You know there was a board on Ihub exclusively for companies who use that filing. Do a board search and see if it is still there. They would probably know more than I do about it.
The 500 was a short sale why do shorts go down more than buys up and my bid did not regiistwr on the bid at on bids? Thanku
Could it be used to privatize the company or take the assets out of the company and then turn the public company into a shell??? With no benefit to shareholders
I put in a bid of 40000 shares an hour later it never showed at all on etrade acc why?
Not quite sure what you are asking here? Are you saying that you bought the shares and they aren't showing in your account? Or, are you saying that you put in an offer and you couldn't see your offer on Level II? If it's the latter then it could be because if you put the order in under the current bid they don't always show it. But if you are asking why you don't see the shares in your account then maybe it never filled.
Also how come 500 shares shorts goes down 33%and then a buy at a ask it only goes 10%?
Not clear on that question either. lol If you are asking why a stock could have a bunch of buys at the ask and it doesn't move much but one little sell could downtick it... well, that could be a sign of dilution.
When a company goes dark they file that form to deregister. Once they do that they no longer are required to file and usually drop to the pink sheets. The reason you see some people get excited over that filing is because sometimes a company files that to become a shell and then there is speculation of a possible reverse merger.
I put in a bid of 40000 shares an hour later it never showed at all on etrade acc why? Also how come 500 shares shorts goes down 33%and then a buy at a ask it only goes 10%? Thanku
For pennies, OTCMarkets.com will show this. For stocks that trade on the majors, you can pull up financial sites from Google or Yahoo:
Finance.Yahoo.com or Finance.Google.com (they should show pennies as well but if not, go to OTCMarkets)
Also, your online brokerage provider should show this information as well. I prefer Google as it appears to have a much leaner and cleaner look for me.
This to is helpful, thank you! I didn't realize, how can one stay current with the shares being traded from day to day?
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