The most interesting part of investing (after buying stocks) is probably looking at your portfolio grow. Combine the magic of systematic investing with compounding interest and you get some impressive results. But you can even do more with less. You can grow your portfolio in another way which will completely be free of cash flow from your wallet. The 3rd magic ingredient to make the perfect investing magic potion is to use the dividend payouts to grow your …
How to Build a Leveraged Dividend Portfolio
Two weeks ago, we discussed the possibility of building a portfolio worth roughly 25K without a single penny in hand. This is called leveraging. Borrowing to invest on the stock market was very popular from 2003 to 2008. Since the market crash, most individual investors have stopped using leveraging as a strategy, incurring important losses. While small investors got burnt and gave up, bigger investors (such as hedge funds) are still in the hunt with leveraging. After seeing what …
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Invest $25,000, Make Money and Don’t Even Dip Into Your Pocket To Fund Your Investment!
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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