18 Stock Picks for 2012 Using My Crystal Ball
Back in February 2011, I posted an article about 9 dividend stocks that would do well in 2011. Since I like to be held accountable, I thought of coming back to those stock picks to see how they performed (just to validate my crystal ball before I use it again for 2012!). I calculated [...]
Top Free Canadian Stock Screeners
I recently received an email from one my newsletter subscribers asking me about the top free Canadian Stock Screeners. This is why I decided to do a little bit more research on the topic and also added my comments to each of them instead of simply making a quick list of free stock screeners. Stock [...]
My QuestTrade Account is Opened – First Dividend Pick to Come!
As I previously mentioned, I had sent my papers to open my Quest Trade Account. Why Quest Trade? Because I live in Canada and it’s probably one the cheapest and most flexible trading platforms for Canadians. The account is not officially opened yet (they have yet processed the brick of paper I sent last week) [...]
2 Things Investors Don’t Want in a Dividend Stock (Plus 1 Controversial One)
There is a lot of information on the web that covers how to select stocks, even dividend stocks. In this post I am going to take the negative angle and present what I feel to be three things that I, as a dividend investor, do not want to see in a dividend stock. In my [...]
One Dividend Rule that Can Help Your Investing Performance
If you invest in individual dividend growth stocks, then you know that there are inherent risks in buying individual stocks. That is why I advocate a basic core portfolio of index funds before venturing into individual stocks. With this structure in place, you drastically reduce the individual stock risk you take on by buying dividend [...]
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Dividend Stocks
“After a meal there’s nothing like a good cigar” – Blondie from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Wikiquote Ok, so that quote has nothing to do with investing, but you can just picture Eastwood saying it. Like everything in life, there are good things, bad things, and ugly things. The same can [...]
A Dividend Yield Screen with High Growth
I like to use my copy of the Stock Investor Pro from AAII to identify potential dividend investments. Recently I was using the software to screen for dividend stocks with a relatively high yield while providing strong growth at the same time. This can often be an investment-oxymoron as higher dividend stocks tend not to [...]
My 5 Steps to Choosing the Right ETF
As an investor who uses index funds as the core of my portfolio (supplemented with dividend growth stocks), I came to the realization a long time ago that not all ETFs are created equal and some were more appropriate for my portfolios than others were. Although originally I never went into the process of selecting [...]
