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Don’t Take Your Screeners Too Seriously

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    For DIY investors, the usage of stock screeners is probably the first step in an investment process. Stock screeners are the perfect tool to save time and build a solid list of dividend stocks to pick from. A while ago, I covered the best free stock screeners along with a short tutorial on how to use them.   Unfortunately, stock screeners are not perfect either. A good understanding of their system and flaws will help you pick the right dividend stocks for your …

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TSX 60 Ex-Dividend Date + How I Beat The Market With My Stock Picks

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    At the beginning of each month, I recap the dividend yield and ex dividend date of the TSX 60. In addition to this recap, I’ve decided to briefly cover the results of my Best 2013 Dividend Stock Book. This book includes 30 stocks analyses (20 US and 10 CDN) for only $2.99. So far, my results are:   20 US Dividend Stocks: +28.76% (beating the index by 7.07%) 10 CDN Dividend Stocks: +13.98% (beating the index by 3.84%)     TSX 60 Ex-Dividend …

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Death Bonds – Spooky Investment for Halloween

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If you know anyone who’s retired, you might want to share this article with him/her. This is about another funky investment product insurance companies have concocted: Investing in the death of others. This is called the DEATH BOND.   Let’s take a look at this *new* way of making money on the back of the graveyard.   You Die, I Make Money   Let’s pretend you are 80 years old and you have an existing life insurance policy. You don’t really need the insurance policy as your …

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The Only Thing That Matters is Your Core Portfolio

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      The news around the stock market is not too good these days. I’m writing this article late on Monday Oct 7th and no solutions have been found for the Government Shutdown. The market is down roughly by 1% over the past couple of weeks and we can expect more volatility if the problem persists.   At the end of this summer, we discussed Hindendburg Omens from right, left and center. All technical analyzes are clear: we are heading towards a market correction. Stocks …

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TSX 60 Ex-Dividend Date + How I Beat The Market With My Stock Picks

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    Sorry for the delay people, I’ve been crumbling under a pile of work this week and couldn’t come up with this post before now. If you are curious about what I’m working on, check this out ;-)   TSX 60 Ex-Dividend Date – Some Stocks Don’t Pay Their Dues!   Before I go ahead and publish the TSX 60 Ex-Dividend date monthly chart, I must admit that I was quite surprised to see that 5 stocks out of 60 aren’t paying dividends. There were only 3        (Valeant – …

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100 Investment Lessons in less than 5 minutes

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Today, I wanted to write something different. It’s like a exercise in writing fast as I tried to pull out of my brain 100 investment lessons you can read, understand and use within the next 5 minutes. So grab your coffee mug, take a sip and let’s start!   *Note, the 100 investment lessons are not in any particular order, they were simply pulled out of my brain in this order. 100 Investment Lessons   1. Never speculate by putting all your money in one stock. 2. Dividend …

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