The Secret to Investment Success
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 [...]
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 [...]
Can’t Bring Myself to Buy Anything
I am in a bit of a quandary right now. I currently have about $2800 (CDN) sitting in an RRSP (Tax deferred account that I am completely unmotivated to invest. There is just nothing that excites me enough right now to invest my cold hard cash into. Most of my current holdings are in the [...]
Dividend Discount Model
The Dividend Discount Model is a stock valuation tool that is supposed to provide an investor with a quick way to evaluate if a stock is overvalued or not. Basically, it states that the value of a stock is all of its future cash flows (dividends) discounted by some rate of return that is usually [...]
Sivy on Bank of America – Good Dividend
As you may already know, I enjoy Michael Sivy’s column over at Money.com. He has a long term view of the stock market and tends to focus on the bug, dividend increasing companies that I favor. What Sivy emphasizes about the stock today is the low P/E ratio and the high dividend yield: The bottom [...]
Psychology and Investing
In my opinion, the number one enemy of a long term investor (or short term for that matter) is a number of psychological factors that inhibit our ability to make rationale and correct decisions when it comes to our investments. One of the books I am reading, Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow by James P. [...]
Covered Calls – Too Risky?
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 [...]
Where to Get Financial Data
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 – [...]
