It Feels Like Wal-Mart on a Black Friday – 4 Stocks That Will Reward Your Gut To Invest In Volatile Market
On my other blog, The Financial Blogger, I discussed why I am borrowing $10,000 to invest in such a volatile market. Since the market has gone crazy over the past 4 months, I’ve decided to accelerate my investing strategy and make a contribution to my retirement account right away (and I’ll be paying off the [...]
A Look At My Latest Trades
After selling RIM (thank God!), I’ve taken a few weeks to look at my portfolio. I was pretty happy with the companies I bought since the beginning of this year (HSE, CVX, JNJ, BNS, and a covered call etf; ZWB). While the market is moving sideways, I’ve built a solid core of great dividend paying [...]
Added a New Section – Current Holdings
After a lot of requests I have added a new section to the blog which includes a list of the current dividend stock and ETF holdings that make up my portfolio. I assume it goes without saying, but I will say it anyway: This is not a recommendation to buy these securities. At any given [...]
Quarterly Portfolio Review – What a Difference a Month Makes
Although I do not post about it regularly, at least once a quarter I have a look at my portfolio’s performance to see how I am stacking up against the market. The reason is simple – if my portfolio is not at least meeting the returns of my chosen benchmark then I am failing as [...]
My Portfolio and Asset Allocation
Although I used to provide my full portfolio on this blog, values and all, I stopped doing it for two simple reasons: privacy and the illusion of a recommendation. First, it felt weird to publish my portfolio value and net worth to the world (not that the world reads this blog!) Second, I got the [...]
The Dividend Guy’s August Dividend Portfolio Review
As I have been disconnected from the market for a couple weeks this past month I did not really know how my portfolio was doing. That was fine because I am comfortable with my overall target asset allocation and the actions I have taken in the past 6 months to bring my current asset allocation [...]
The Dividend Guy’s July Dividend Portfolio Review
I know I have not been an investor for too many cycles, but this volatility is something. I remember putting together my portfolio review at the end of June and the story was very grim. Many of my stocks were at their lowest levels that I had ever seen while being an owner in them. [...]
The Dividend Guy’s June Dividend Portfolio Review
This month has been all about buying some stocks from my Watch List that have shown to be buys within these very tough markets. As a long term dividend investor my goal is to add positions to new stocks or existing holdings on price dips. This month I purchased Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), The McGraw-Hill [...]
