The Dividend Guy

Can I let you all in on a little stock market secret? This is very privileged information so please cover your screen while you read this so that others will not see our little secret. Ok, ready - here it comes...........The stock market is volatile and can go up and down a lot!![ad#tdg-embedded] Seriously though, the stock market does only two things on any given day. It either goes up, or it goes down. Our job as investors is to determine how to deal with it and not make stupid …

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The wonderful magic of compounding returns that is reflected in the long-term productivity of American business, then, is translated into equally wonderful returns in the stock market. But those returns are overwhelmed by the powerful tyranny of compounding the costs of investing. - Bogle (The Little Book of Common Sense Investing) There is such an intense focus on what returns an investor earns that often one the most important aspects (other than asset allocation) of investing is ignored …

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Although I used to provide my full portfolio on this blog, values and all, I stopped doing it for two simple reasons: privacy and the illusion of a recommendation. First, it felt weird to publish my portfolio value and net worth to the world (not that the world reads this blog!) Second, I got the feeling that by publishing my portfolio a small number of people were considering it as a buy recommendation and were in fact copying it. That was wrong! Although I believe strongly in my investing …

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October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ~Mark Twain I love this quote because it really sums up the risks of speculating in the stock market. At the end of the day, I don't think there is any way to accurately predict what the stock market is going to return over the next X number of years.[ad#tdg-embedded] However, the investment industry …

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