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Sometime Things Just Don’t Go as Planned

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I have another passion other than dividend stocks (and my family of course!) - it is running and training for races. On another blog I write, The Running Guy, I just had to write a post about how I have dropped out of training and running in an upcoming marathon. Things were just not going well with the training and it was stressing me out. However, not to toot my own horn, I could have easily called it a day and quite my training outright. I didn't. Instead I readjusted my plans and have …

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Top 10 Reasons Dividend Investing Is Good – Updated With Your Comments

Principles, Stock Selection

I have received a number of inputs to why Dividend Investing is good. Thank you so much for your input. Presented below is the original article with the additional reasons dividend investing makes sense. I read a lot of articles on the web and books about dividend investing, and find that there is some real consistency in this literature concerning the top reasons dividend investing is a good approach. I would like to present these here and invite your feedback and comments on ones I may …

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The Secret to Investment Success

Principles, Stock Selection

Let's face it - investing is serious business. After all, we are talking about your hard earned money being put at risk for the "chance" of some future gains. One wrong move and you can wipe out a good chunk of capital. Talk about pressure. However, every once in a while we need to step back and lighten up a little bit. To that end, I present to you a passage by the famous Dave Barry in his book, "Money Secrets": ...the only way to make money in the stock market is to use a rational …

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Watching Dividend Payments Grow

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I feel like I have been talking about this a lot lately, but I was entering some dividend payments I recently received into Microsoft Money and say the dramatic effect of reinvesting dividend payments. I am going to take one of my stocks as an example and show you what has happened over time. The following chart shows the various dividend payments I have received from one of my best holdings - RBC Royal Bank (RY.to). You will notice that over time the dividends that I receive has been …

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2 Mistakes an Investor Can Make

Principles, Site Introduction

I was recently surfin' some investing message boards and came across a great summary of the investment process. More specifically, it was a very simple description of the two kinds of mistakes an investor can make. It really hit home with me. When you filter the investment process down to its most basic level, there really is only two things that can make a good plan go completely haywire. The two kinds of mistakes one can make in investing are: 1) Not buying a company that one should …

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Procrastination Sucks – Don’t Do It

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There was a good article over at The Globe and Mail that covered the problem with procrastination quite well. It gave an example of two investors, who contributed money to their investments at different stages of their lives. It is a classic example when investors talk about the time value of money simply because the outcome is so clear. Here is what the article said: Consider the story of two investors. Ernest has always been a "do-it-now" kind of person. He decided to start saving for …

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