Bit the Bullet and Actually Bought a Stock – How Absurd!
I know, I must be crazy. When the world seemed like it was ending last Thursday I actually entered a buy order to add to one of my current holdings. This particular stock was actually trading below the buy zone I generate as part of my watch list. I had been looking to add to [...]
Did Some Buying in The Dividend Guy Portfolio
In my ever persistent pursuit to ensure that my asset allocation is in line with my targets, I have completed a trade to further dollar-cost average into a particular index fund I hold. This down market has taken many industries, sectors, and global regions down with it and I wanted to take advantage of that. [...]
Should a Long-Term Investor Worry About Short-Term Market Trends?
I was going though my personal collection of finance and investing books the other day and picked up William J. O’Neil’s book, The Successful Investor. In this book O’Neil devotes an entire chapter to teaching the skills required to read the market as a basis for entry and exits. In the end what he is [...]
Sold Some Stock and Buying Fixed Income To Meet My Target Asset Allocation
Last week I completed a transaction in my account – one I have wanted to do for awhile now but never did because of no clear plans of what to do with the cash. The stock was Flextronics and was a lone individual holding that was obtained as a result of some Solectron shares I [...]
Entered a Trade to Buy More Citigroup
Based on all the recent market turmoil with the financial stocks, my recent analysis of Citigroup and the value I believe it presents based on historical dividend yields and P/E ratios, I have just entered a trade to buy more Citigroup. Since I use the CSA as my broker, the trades are not immediate. They [...]
Buying: Starting a Small-Cap Position in my Dividend Portfolio
Over the past couple of weeks I have been investigating whether small-cap stocks have a place in my dividend portfolio and how I should actually get small-cap exposure into my dividend portfolio. My conclusions from these two articles were as follows: 1. Small-cap stocks do have a place in my portfolio as they have had [...]
