Favourite Links: the Battle of Free Chequing Accounts, How to do Technical Analysis of Stocks, Mobile Banking and More

The Battle of Free Chequing Accounts

Frugal Trader over at Million Dollar Journey compares ING's new free chequing account with that of PC Financial, as ING ups the stakes by offering free email money transfers, too. WalletPop continues to hope other banks will join this battle.

Buying an Income Property

Not everybody has an intuitive understanding of what real estate properties are good investments, so if you're thinking of buying an income property, you may want to pop over to Landlord Rescue, where he warns that we may be in a real estate bubble. And you'll find useful links to Landlord Math – Cap Rate and Return on Investment and John T. Reed's views of various Real-estate-investment gurus.



How to do Technical Analysis of Stocks

Personal Finance guru Gail vaz Oxlade dives into how to measure the historical performance of a stock and look at how patterns created are when a stocks price and volume are charted over the long term. Charting, particularly, is useful for putting a stocks behaviour in context, she says, since a point move can be a breakout or a continuing strong advance.

5 Key Aspects of Mobile Banking

Mobile banking is getting ready to take off, big time, says Financial Highway in an examination of how mobile payments, mobile cheque processing, SMS banking, mobile banking apps and general banking through the mobile web will impact our banking habits.

Saving – Not Spending – Makes Consumers Feel Smarter

Are you a smart shopper? If so, you probably feel pretty smart says personal finance journalist Jean Chatzy on Women on the Web. Chatzy examines how spending and saving patterns that developed during the recession are turning into permanent and healthy frugal habits such as cooking from scratch.

How to Get Burned on an Investment and Not Care

The topic of this feature over at Canadian Dream: Free at 45 really captured my attention, and the click was well worth the read. If you paid a good price for a stock, even if the dividend gets cut you may still be way ahead, he says and explains how to diversify and measure whether your return stays within a certain range of return over a 10-year period.

Killercakes

What's not to like about the innocent cupcake? You'd be surprised. Captivate examines the obesity epidemic and how such sweet treats as cupcakes have become deadly and silent killers.