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Be the Tiger Woods of Investing: Beat Everybody Else By Avoiding the Big Miss

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    As I’m coming back from vacation, I asked Paul from Capital Manifesto to write this guest post about investing behaviors. I can relate to this article as in the past two years, my dividend stock picks did very well but I wasn’t able to avoid “the Big Miss”. My two trades on RIM (2011) and on VNP (2012) were two “Big Miss” and brought my whole portfolio down. The funny part is that I’m a similar golfer; I’m doing well overall but I’m always trying to do THE shot that will make …

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Dividend Growth Update Q2

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Dividend Growth Index Q2 Update   In September 2011, a group of 8 bloggers started the Dividend Growth Index. We picked three stocks each to create a Dividend Growth Portfolio. The goal is not to do a stock picking competition but to build a real dividend portfolio in order to give you ideas of what it look like overtime. We are all allowed to make trades but are less likely to make several of them. The purpose is to benefit from dividend increase throughout the years. We post updates …

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Weekly Dividend Time

Best Dividend Posts of the Week

Time to jump into the links once again: 1. Top 100 Dividend Stocks – July 2012 – Return From The Dead? @ IS. 2. LGL Group: Upside with Protected Downside? @ Barel Karsan. 3. Family Finance: Property and Vehicle Insurance @ The Passive Income Earner. 4. When Do You Finally Spend Serious Money on Your Business? @ SFN. 5. A Diversified Approach To International Dividends @ DGS. 6. Novartis: Strong Stock @ Dividend Monk. 7. Market Strength in the Light of Negative News @ The …

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Investing Myth: 3 Reasons Why Age Doesn’t Matter When Investing

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    After last week’s post about Techno stocks being the new dividend favorites,Charlotte mentioned that she was too old to invest in the stock market. I found this comment intriguing as I just met an 85 year old investor who still has about 20% of his portfolio in stocks…. And I’m not considering the amount he has in preferred shares! He was pretty happy with his portfolio and liked the fact that he could beat the inflation. If this investor doesn’t follow the 100 minus your age …

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Techno Stocks, The Future of Dividends?

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    For a long time in the stock market, dividend stocks were synonymous with diversified blue chips such as PG,JNJ, KO,PEP, CL, etc. These clue chips had long since put their period of high speed growth behind them and since been time to reward investors through increasing dividends. Investors select these kinds of stocks for the great mix of stability and quarterly cash flow. This is what you usually expect from mature companies in mature markets.   Similarly, we …

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How Long Do You Hold Your Stocks?

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    This is probably the toughest question an investor must answer: How long do I hold my stock?   When you are making a paper profit, feel that you have selected the right stock and want to keep it. You certainly don’t want to cash out your 10%-20% profit and realize that your stock will do as well as MCD for the past 10 years!   On the other hand, when you are have a paper loss, feel that you have selected the right stock and you want to keep it… Wait, I …

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