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 …
My Watch List – Dividend Focused
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 …
