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A Common Investor Mistake Created by Warren Buffett

Blog, Investing Strategy

Invest only in what you know, isn’t what billionaire and famous investor Warren Buffett is saying to beginner investors? I’ll admit it upfront before you want to throw me tomatoes; Warren Buffett is a smarter and better investor than I am (and probably than I will ever become). Throughout decades, the Oracle of Omaha gave lots of nuggets of wisdom to any willing to follow his path. One of its most repeated advice and one I follow religiously is “Invest only in what you know”. The …

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A High Yield Portfolio? Only if You Meet Those 3 Criteria

Blog, Investing Strategy, Principles, Retirement

I’ve been fighting for many, many… many years. It has been an epic fight that started the day I switched my portfolio toward dividend paying stocks. When I started blogging about dividend growth investing, I was reminded several times by older investors that many of my picks didn’t mean anything to them. After all, who needs Disney (DIS) or Canadian National Railway (CNR.TO) with such low yield when you can buy Kinder Morgan (KMI) and Cominar (CUF.UN.TO). All right, I’m writing 2 two names in …

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Can You Make the Difference Between Good News and Bad News?

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At the beginning of the month, Intel (INTC) shares dropped drastically upon news that Apple (AAPL) would drop the world class chip maker to make its own. My first thought was “God why two companies I like have to beat-up on each other like this?”. And my second thought “this is a good opportunity to buy INTC shares). This is exactly what I published on Twitter: You are going to tell me “yeah, Mike, that’s easy! When the stock drop on bad news, it’s good news for investors!”. Not too fast …

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Falling Knives… or Opportunities for You to Catch!

Blog, Investing Strategy, Portfolio Building

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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Now It’s Time to Sell… 4 Tricks to Know When to Sell

Blog, Investing Strategy, Portfolio Building

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

Blog, Dividend Growth, Investing Strategy

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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