Recently I opened a covered call position in DMD using a total return approach, which means that I am expecting and want the stock being called away. I used a low priced stock, since that would provide a higher return than higher priced stock when using small account (or small amount of money available). I Continue reading →
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My inspiration in last week #3
I often browse the internet to find ideas about investing, trading stocks, options, investing opportunities and strategies. I like to read about investors and what their investing/trading approach to create income you can live on is. This week I found the following interesting posts: Holding Vs. Deploying Cash – Dividend Mantra Time to Reflect – Continue reading →
New trade – adding Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
Today I bought more shares of ABT to my dividend portfolio at $65.37 per share. 12/27/2012 09:40:48 Bought 15 ABT @ 65.3699 Total shares held as of today: 34 Estimated annual dividend*: $73.44 Consecutive Dividend Increase: 39 years Dividend yield today: 3.44% Dividend 5yr Growth: 10.23% Dividend paid since: 1926 * Note: The dividend is Continue reading →
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My inspiration in last week #2
I often browse the internet to find ideas about investing, trading stocks, options, investing opportunities and strategies. I like to read about investors and what their investing/trading approach to create income you can live on is. This week I found the following interesting posts: How I Got My Kids Excited About Saving and Investing – Continue reading →
Futures point to selloff tomorrow
The market finished up today, however, as of this writing the U.S. futures point to heavy selling tomorrow morning. S&P 500 is down -23.90 / 1.66%, Nasdaq -40.00 / 1.49% and Dow -211.00 / 1.50%. So be ready for bumpy ride tomorrow. Another investment I am closely watching is Gold GLD. Today we experienced another Continue reading →
Abbott declares $0.14/share qtr. dividend, what the heck?!
Were you also surprised finding out that the Abbott‘s dividend rate fell to 0.14 a share and started creeping what was going on? Well, today my stock spreadsheet showed up with this dividend rate and yield, see a print screen below. I knew Abbot was going to split in January 2013, but I didn’t realize Continue reading →
New trade – adding Gold ETF (GLD)
Gold retreated to its 200 day MA today and I decided to add a few shares to my holding, since I consider this attractive price. I see some similarities and pattern in GLD corrections, (see the chart below) and thus I believe we are in similar pattern as in 2008. Also I want to be Continue reading →
My Goals 2013
We are heading towards the end of 2012 year and it is time to review the progress of the goals we made last year and set a new set of goals for the upcoming year. I hope you all had a great year and that the next one will be even better. In past years Continue reading →
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