Category Archives: Stocks

The Importance Of Rate Return

Rate of return is the most important item to get really wealthy.  There is so much focus on budgeting and spending less than you make in the personal finance industry.  You do have to live on less than you make … Continue reading

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Any Monkey Can Beat The Market

I am linking to a couple articles for you to read.  The articles will show you how poorly the financial industry/experts are at beating the market.  I wish these types of article/stories made the major news cycle every year.  With a … Continue reading

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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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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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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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