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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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My Watch List – Dividend Focused

Stock Selection

I have developed a watch list of dividend paying stocks that I am going to keep track of going forward. This list is mostly quelled from Michael Sivy's Sivy 70. I basically took his list, and filtered the stocks that are on either the Mergent's Dividend Achiever list or the S&P Dividend Aristocrats. This list is the behemoths of business that have huge market caps. However, in my opinion, building a core portfolio around any of these stocks could be a good strategy. My next step will be to …

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Covered Calls – Too Risky?

Stock Selection

I have been doing some reading recently on the concept of Covered Calls as a way to generate income from your portfolio. To describe what this is, I cannot do any better than Investopedia.com has: An options strategy whereby an investor holds a long position in an asset and writes (sells) call options on that same asset in an attempt to generate increased income from the asset. This is often employed when an investor has a short-term neutral view on the asset and for this reason hold the …

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Where to Get Financial Data

Stock Selection

When analyzing a stock there is a ton of research available on the web that can really help. Last night I went through all the sites that I have used in the past and have listed some of them here. Keep in mind that there are a few sites that provide the same data - I use these different sites to try to verify the data that the web sites present. I have found inconsistent data in the past and seeing this has allowed me to dig a little further to get the real data. Some of the sites I have …

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One Investor Sells, Another Investor Buys

Stock Selection

I was doing some reading over at pfblogs.org and one particular post reminded me of a fundamental notion that occurs in the market every single moment of every single trading day - that for every seller there is an equally as enthusiastic buyer and for every buyer there is an equally enthusiastic seller. Around September 2005, 2million made a purchase of Merck on the weakness that the stock had gone through since the Vioxx problems. If you remember, I chose to sell the stock 8 months later …

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