Time for some interesting reads from around the personal finance and investing blog community.

Wise Bread has a great classic piece on investing called 5 Basic Investing Tips For Any Market. I agree that majority of investors should think of the long term when investing. Leave the day trading and market timing to the experts.

Gather Little By Little reminds us about the Anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ Failure. Can you believe it’s been a year since the stock market went off kilter to cause some of the biggest and most respected financial institutions to crash and burn?

One Mint offers us a great Real Estate ETF list. If you’re looking to put money into real estate investments, these ETFs may be just the ticket.

Len Penzo suggests that we can use a HELOC as an alternative to refinancing. He offers a case study that shows you how it can work!

I was able to participate in a few carnivals as well, which I quite enjoyed. I appreciate the opportunity to be part of these events, and I thank the carnival hosts for accepting my submissions this week:

• Carnival of Money Hackers at Four Pillars
• Carnival of Personal Finance at Simply Forties
• Carnival of Personal Finance at Wilson Report
• Carnival of Pecuniary Delights at Canadian Finance Blog

Refinancing With A HELOC, Lehman Brothers Collapse is a post from: Investing Toolkit

Welcome to our financial roundup! I have here a nice collection of interesting posts from around the blogosphere which I thought you may enjoy:

Darwin’s Finance: Wonder how stock options work? Well check out this article that gives us the basics on how to trade calls and puts.

Man vs Debt: Now this is a really unique post about the power of resourcefulness. What does being resourceful do for you? Plenty. It’s a trait that’s often necessary for helping you get an edge in life.

Wealth Pilgrim: This post discusses how you can solve a problem that you may never have thought you could by putting your mind to it and asking for help. At its core, this post is actually about toilet repair, but there are some lessons to be learned here, especially if you aren’t a DIY type of person.

Personal Finance By The Book: More on the subject of DIY (do it yourself) — you can save thousands by buying or selling a car on your own rather than by going through dealers.

I Joined These Finance Carnivals!

• Carnival of Financial Planning by Free Money Finance.
• Carnival of Pecuniary Delights by Counting My Pennies
• Festival of Stocks by Modern Graham
• Festival of Stocks by Fat Pitch Financials
• Carnival of Personal Finance by Money Relationship Blog

These were some of the money carnivals I joined this week, so if you’re in the mood for reading more about finance and investing, do check them out. They’ve got lots of informative and educational articles that will pique your interest.

Stock Options Talk, Do It Yourself Projects, Car Transactions is a post from: Investing Toolkit

Have you heard of financial carnivals before? They’re weekly blog events that allow bloggers to join and share their articles on a particular subject. The articles are “hosted” on a particular site on a given occasion.

This week, I had the chance to join a few carnivals. Here were some of the ones I participated in, as well as some articles that captured my attention!

In the Carnival of Pecuniary Delights, I quite enjoyed The Financial Highway’s 7 money saving tips for a frugal barbecue!

The Carnival of Personal Finance was a great hit, and I found myself enjoying this post from Ask Mr. Credit Card on leveraging card rewards and other rants.

Next was the Carnival of Financial Planning where I found some compelling ideas from PennyJob’s post on reasons for finishing your basement.

Festival of Stocks was my next stop where I caught up with Darwin Finance’s article on knowing the difference between median vs mean.

There were many more wonderful articles from these carnivals, so I strongly encourage you to visit the sites I mentioned here. I’m going to plan to participate in these events each week because I’ve realized that I could kill a few birds with one stone this way: I can get a chance to network with other bloggers, learn more about who’s out in the blogosphere plus learn about finance along the way!

Finish Your Basement, Enjoy A Frugal Barbecue, Leverage Card Rewards is a post from: Investing Toolkit