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What is this?
“What is this?” is exactly what I thought when I saw ABBV sitting as one of the top 3 CAGR’s when I was doing an analysis of the Dividend Aristocrats with my Crush the Market Tool. ABBV had a 19% CAGR … Continue reading
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StockWatch
It’s another fun tool that visualizes what happens to a $1,000 if invested over the 10 year time frame. StockWatch was created by the same guy who created StockChocker. As time and the animation progresses, fun facts are added underneath. … Continue reading
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Have a Coke and a Smile…….
I bought some Coca-Cola (KO) stock on Tuesday. I had a buy stop limit order on it so if it kept going down, I could buy cheaper and if it went up 2% my order would trigger. It triggered. Why … Continue reading
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Crush The Market Tool
My core investing approach is to only buy stocks that are on the Dividends Aristocrats list. I learned this approach in 2005 when I read the Future For Investors by Jeremy Siegel. I have not been able to find a … Continue reading
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Failure Porn
I wish I could take credit for the phase but I heard it when listening to a James Altucher podcast. Basically, we all tend to pull out our mistakes, look at them, and start stringing them all together. And you can … Continue reading
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Look At Your Portfolio Every Day
Yes, I am serious. Actually, look at it multiple times a day. As a dividend growth investor, you will need to get used to your capital moving a lot. It can move both up and down quite a bit over … Continue reading
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It Pays Dividends
Dividend: A dividend is a payment made by a corporation to its shareholders, usually as a distribution of profits, straight from Wikipedia. Let me show you what a quarterly dividend payment looks like with real numbers from one of my stocks. … Continue reading
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How Do You Beat The Market So Often?
After reading The Future For Investors by Jeremy Siegel in 2005, I bought a little bit of Phillip Morris. PM was the number 1 stock in his book over the study period from 1957 – 2003, about 46 years. At … Continue reading
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Year By Year Portfolio Stats
First, let me tell you why I am posting this. When I am reading other sites, it helps me see how they did it with real numbers. It triggers something inside me and it just makes it more real or … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Independence, Net Worth, Our Story
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I Wish I Would Have Bought……
Have you ever wondered how much a stock would be worth today if you had bought some in the past? You can now with this easy tool, Stock Chocker. Man, I love the Internet! It has data that goes back to 1/2/1970, if … Continue reading
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Investment Gain Update – 2016 Edition
It always helps me to see real, actual dollar numbers when reading other people’s posts. Something about seeing hard numbers makes it more real. So here are ours. I started with 2012 because that is when we started using Schwab … Continue reading
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Our $1,182,742.41 Mistake
Yep, that’s not a typo or misplaced comma. That is how much we would have as of 1/1/2017 if we would have invested the $200,000 gain from the sale of our house when we sold in December 2005. I definitely … Continue reading
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