You can make money with other’s people money. I’m sure you have heard this somewhere else before. And I’m sure that many of you will disagree with me. But I think that making money with other’s people money is one of the best, if not the best way to acquire wealth. On Monday, I was talking about how 2012 might be the investing opportunity of the decade. You may agree with me but it doesn’t mean that you have more money to invest. What if you don’t …
How I Beat The Market With My Dividend Trades
To be completely honest with you, I have been interested in dividend investing for a while but only switched my portfolio towards this approach back in January 2011. Why did I take so long? Simply because I had a lot of success by trading more aggressively in the past. From 2003 to 2006, I made enough money to build up a $50,000 down payment to buy my first house. Then, I started in 2008 to trade the way I had previously (by taking a lot of risks!) and I got hit brutally by bad trades such as …
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6 Steps to Buy a 7% Dividend Paying Stock With Low Risk
High dividend yield in a low risk portfolio? How is that possible? Well there is a way that you can invest your money and earn a high dividend yield without taking much risk. I think that’s this is basically what we all want as dividend investors: high dividend yield from low risk stocks. But unfortunately, it is rarely the case. If you remember my yellow pages (YLO) analysis you know that high dividend yield is usually followed by dividend cuts (especially if the dividend yield is combined …
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How To Build a 6 Figure Income Dividend Portfolio with $600 per month
Last week, I discussed how to build a retirement portfolio with dividend stocks. Since bonds and certificates of deposit offer historically low rates, chances are that retirees and future retirees will invest more money into “safe” dividend stocks. Following this post, a reader asked me how to build a 6 figure income dividend portfolio. First of all, this is not an easy task; making 100K per year from your investments requires 3 things: A lot of time A lot of capital A bit of luck …
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Investing Myths Debunked Regarding Inflation And How To Beat it With A Shovel
With the US Government keeping interest rates at the lowest possible level while printing money like there is no tomorrow (QE3 coming up anyone?), all we can fear is to see climbing inflation rates to come. In addition to this, the prices of commodities are rising and if you live in Canada, it’s not any better as the Bank of Canada resists raising interest rates based on economic uncertainty and a already strong dollar. However, this hasn’t stopped inflation from rising in the …
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Playing With Ex-Dividend Date
Can you play with an Ex-Dividend date? Is there a way to make a quick buck out by trading the stock according to when it pays its dividend? Do you believe in elves and hobbits? Okay… maybe some people look like hobbits… so maybe playing with Ex-dividend dates work… Let’s take a look at this trading “strategy”. How Can You Make Money By Playing The Ex-Dividend Date So let’s take a look at an example on how you could possibly make money by playing with the ex-dividend …
