In September 2017, I’ve received slightly over $100K as a result of the commuted value of my pension plan. I decided to invest 100% of this money into dividend growth stocks. Each month, I publish my results. I don’t this to brag, I do this to show you it’s possible to build a portfolio during an all-time high market. The market will crash... eventually. In the meantime, I rather cash some juicy dividends! Portfolio holdings Numbers are as at April 2nd 2018: Canadian portfolio …
Falling Knives… or Opportunities for You to Catch!
Imagine you throw a knife in the air to impress people around you and you try to catch it as it rapidly falls. If you succeed, you look like a pro. If you fail, you will catch the blade and cut yourself. Picking a stock rapidly dropping on the market is like catching a falling knife. Some stocks will bounce back and make a great investment, others will continue to drop and bleed your portfolio. Therefore, we call a stock that is brutally dropping a falling knife. As you can imagine, not all …
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The Day I Quit my Job Because It Wasn’t Safe Anymore
While you are reading this blog, chances are I’m still admiring mountains over Lake Atitlan. Business wise, it was a terrible (or an amazing?) timing, I don’t know yet. Still, I took a week off in Guatemala, where it all started 18 months ago. I didn’t know back then, but this is where/when I decided to quit my job once I got back from my RV trip. This time, my wife and I decided to take a quick week to fly over Lake Atitlan to come back to our “traveling roots”. We had the feeling we needed …
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I Have to Share This With You; My Largest Webinar Ever!
Let me tell you about my last Thursday. Thursday March 15th, I woke up feeling that I was on top of the world. I hopped in my Porsche and hit the marvelous roads of Costa Rica. I was speeding under the sun, I could feel its warm welcome. The sea, the palm trees, everything was perfect. I was ready to nail it. But then, the largest “vaca” crossed the road and I crashed into it. The car went up in the air as it was a Hot Wheel doing loops and my world turned upside down. Thursday March 15th, …
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Now It’s Time to Sell… 4 Tricks to Know When to Sell
You know what’s as hard as knowing the right time to buy for an investor? Trying the right time to sell! Last week I shared my tricks to get rid of the paralysis by analysis syndrome, which was designed into a series of 6 steps to follow in order to get into the right mindset and start investing instead of waiting on the side line. Now that we have faced a mini correction and that some sectors are still get kicked around (REITs, MLPs and Utilities anyone?), some investors are getting anxious …
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The Most Boring Part of Dividend Growth Investing
I can recall the face of my assistant when I was dancing around the printer, waiting desperately to read those quarterly reviews. A pile of numbers, charts and a good coffee and I was the happiest man on earth. Wow… this is boring! She kept telling me. I don’t know why, but I’ve always been passionate about numbers and how they work together, especially when there is a dollar sign in front of them. I will never write it enough on my blog; the secret of investing is a solid plan. The problem …
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