Archive for the ‘Lending Club’ Category

Hedging with Lending Club II

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

This the next in a series of posts about my experiences with Lending Club. I am especially interested in getting the best possible return on my money without placing the principle at risk - since most of my principle is the result of 0% balance transfer arbitrage. You may want ...

Hedging with Lending Club I

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

This post is part of a series on how to increase your return on balance transfer arbitrage by using Lending Club. Balance transfer arbitrage is the practice of acquiring large sums of money from a credit card at 0% interest, depositing the cash in the bank and then profiting from ...

Intro: Hedging with Lending Club

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

I made my second set of loans at Lending Club last week. I plan to lend $50 to $100 every month for the rest of the year. Each month, I will use a different set of criteria in order to spread out my risk and optimize my rate of return. ...

My foray into peer to peer lending

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

I am the bank! I just made my first loan at Lending Club. I have been hanging around Prosper for a long time - reading loan stories and looking at the set-up, but I had never created an account. I had read a few horror stories on fatwallet and I don't ...