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How to Use Stock Screens and My Stock Screener Criteria

I like to use stock screeners to identify potential dividend stocks to invest in. I know there are many people who actually use stock screeners to mechanically invest in stocks, but that I not my forte. I find that I do not have the conviction to blindly follow a mechanical strategy. However, my purposes for running stock screens is to weed out from 1000's of available stocks to a very few that warrant further investigation.[ad#tdg-embedded] There are a number of stock screening services …

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The Dividend Guy Investment Process Part 11: Things I Won’t Do

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As I have said before, an important component of portfolio management is to ensure you are always learning and adjusting your strategy to identified best practices. I am not talking about changing your strategy whole-hog when the whim strikes you. I am talking about refinements to your strategy that will make your portfolio stronger and perform better. I have done this through the addition of Part 11 of The Dividend Guy Investment Process - Things I Won't Do In My Portfolio. The list is …

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Top 50 Investing Blogs

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I read a lot of investing blogs. In fact, right now in my Google Reader I have 154 rss feeds. Not all of them are investing or even finance related but the majority certainly are. These investing blogs teach me a great deal about investing and the investment process, including dividend investing, asset allocation, stock selection, portfolio management, tax planning and other related topics. I took some time to list 50 of those blogs here for you. These blogs are in no particular order - …

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Pfizer Post-Mortem – Another One Bites the Dust

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True to my dividend investing code, I have sold Pfizer after their recently announced 50% dividend cut to offset the purchase of Wyeth. Pfizer has been a stock that I have held for a long time, and held great faith in the company as a strong dividend growth company. However this changed quickly and the stock is no longer a component of my dividend portfolio.[ad#tdg-embedded] As I do with every stock holding that I own does not work out the way I planned I thought back to why I was holding …

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20 All-Time Favorite Investing Books – Part 1

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These are my favorite books, ranked in order of how much value I have received from reading them. There is a wide selection of investing books here - some are focused on dividend investing, some are more personal financed focused, and others are just plain ol' investing books. The point is that as individual investors, the only thing that will make us successful is education on our topic and it is important to read the right books. These are my choice for "the right …

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What is Your Real Risk Tolerance?

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To my female readers, pardon the expression, but it is aggressive bear markets that separate the boys from the men. The conviction to hold to a solid investment plan (such as a dividend growth plan) is the cornerstone of good portfolio management and amateur investors typically fare very poorly. I have been thinking about why this is a lot lately and the reason I have come up with is that many investors do not really understand what their true risk tolerance is. I have spoken with many …

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