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I am going to take a couple of days to spend some time with my family and friends this holiday season. There will be no posts on December 24th. I will resume posting on December 31st well rested (I think) and rarin' to go! Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all readers of tDG. See you in a couple of days...[ad#tdg-embedded] …

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I have had some fun with the most recent version of Wordpress, a theme update, and my RSS Feed. I still have not idea what happened, but I have had to create a new feed address. Theoretically, the way I have things set up now, all of my existing subscribers should redirect to the new feed, but just to be safe, you can always update the feed in your favorite RSS reader to the new address. My new feed address is: http://feedproxy.google.com/TheDividendGuy As I work through everything on …

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(This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net) A few days ago one of my colleagues over at the DIV-Net wrote about online brokerages and using Zecco as low cost provider. As a Canadian, I like the sounds of Zecco's low costs however we Canadians are not eligible to open an account with them. In this post I would like to talk about a Canadian broker that I have been using to good effect that offers cheap trades - not $0 trades but pretty close. My primary broker for a long time was the …

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I use Microsoft Money to manage my portfolio. I find it very useful to enter and keep track of all the various transactions that occur in a dividend investing portfolio. Through the years I have relied upon the software program to calculate the various returns my portfolio has achieved. However, when I recently upgraded to Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe I saw something strange happen - both my annualized return and year-to-date numbers changed. Upon some further investigation I have found that …

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I use an investment code as a tool to help me manage my portfolio. It is something that I recommend all investors do as it helps manage emotions. It is much harder to make an emotional decision if you have certain rules of portfolio management that you are committed to following. For this blog, I put pen to paper (so to speak) and wrote them down as part of The Dividend Guy's Investment Process series (see my sidebar to the right). I believe this investment code should be consistent during …

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