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Get Realistic and Sell Your Stocks

I’m going to be a little more patient and I won’t sell this stock… not just yet I’m 100% sure you have already said that a million times about a losing stock in your portfolio. Holding a dead cow in your portfolio is probably the worst thing you could do as a DIY investor. But it’s hard to sell. It is! Selling a stock is ten times harder than buying one. When you buy, you do it with the clear intention of making money. As a bonus, you select a dividend stock so …

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Wal-Mart WMT Dividend Stock Analysis

Stock Analysis

I know that Wal-Mart (WMT) is far from being a sexy investment position and I’m publishing this stock analysis as I am seriously considering adding WMT to my portfolio. I’m almost ready to quit on Intel (INTC) since it is still struggling with the mobile universe and 63% of its revenues are still coming from the past (the PC industry). Since I can sell INTC for a healthy profit (currently sitting at +15% in my portfolio), this is definitely something to …

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10 Handpicked Dividend Growth Stocks Increasing Payout by More Than 20%

Best Dividend stocks, Blog, Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy

At the beginning of each year, I like to pull out a search from my stock screener using my favorite investing metrics. One of them is obviously to find stocks with aggressive dividend growth over the past five years. I revisited this list not so long ago and handpicked 10 high growth dividend stocks from the past five years. They may be of interest if you are looking for big dividend payment increases! #10 KLA-Tencor Corp (KLAC) +23.24% KLA-Tencor supplies process controls …

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Top 5 Dividend Investing Rules To Build, Manage and Profit from Your Portfolio

Dividend Growth

Sometimes, investing seems incredibly complicated. Many beginners start off great by reading books, blogs, asking questions but they sit on the sidelines for a while. They gain the knowledge, have the tools, but are still scared to pull the trigger on their first trade. If you are in this situation or you simply have a hard time getting your head around everything you have read in the books, financial newspaper and dividend investing blogs, I’ve gathered my Top 5 …

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Why You Should Track Your Personal Rate Of Return

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This is a guest post from a fellow Canadian blogger Robb. Robb Engen is a DIY investor and blogs about personal finance at Boomer & Echo. You can follow him on Twitter @BoomerandEcho. How well did your investments perform last year? Did your portfolio beat the market? Which market? You can look at your mutual fund prospectus or use a website like Morningstar to see how individual funds performed, but this won't give you your personal rate of return. You’ll need to …

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