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Posted by Martin May 13, 2013

Trade order adjustment – SPDR EURO STOXX 50 (FEZ) in ROTH IRA

Today’s mixed trading session ended SPDR EURO STOXX 50 (FEZ) price movement within my expectations. As I wrote in my previous post “How to invest with small money” I would invest in this ETF to take advantage of investing small money into a commission free ETF. Investing into FEZ is basically an experiment to me. Continue reading →

Posted by Martin May 10, 2013

Dividend paying stocks attractive to buy today

Today’s trading session brought a couple of stocks I own in my TD and ROTH IRA accounts which reversed enough to be once again attractive to buy or in other words: to add to my portfolio. PPL Corporation is an energy and utility holding company. The Company operates in four segments: Kentucky Regulated, U.K. Regulated, Continue reading →

Posted by Martin April 27, 2013

My portfolio beats the market again

My portfolio beats the market again

Once again my results this week made me happy. My combined portfolio made of TD account (taxable) and ROTH IRA account grew faster than the entire market. After so many years of loses, mistakes and learning how to invest without losing money I am very excited about my results. I hope the results are not Continue reading →

Posted by Martin April 13, 2013

My Accounts Caught The Benchmark Up And Keep UP

I am satisfied with my recovery efforts. All my accounts are up to pre-options loss trading and on top of that they caught up the pace with the benchmarks S&P 500 and DJIA. I monitor my accounts performance on weekly basis and you can see my Weekly Monitor on top of the page. Lest few Continue reading →

Posted by Martin April 11, 2013

How Do You Evaluate Dividend Payout Ratio?

How Do You Evaluate Dividend Payout Ratio?

Today I came across a post from a fellow blogger MMD and his article on his blog “Using the Dividend Payout Ratio to Help Evaluate Stocks“. The author is writing about looking at the payout ratio of dividend paying stocks and evaluating their ability to sustain their dividends or even their financial strength and profitability Continue reading →

Be A Banker To Yourself – My Way Of Infinite Banking Account

Be A Banker To Yourself - My Way Of Infinite Banking Account

Once I wrote about an Infinite Banking strategy in my “Be a banker to yourself” article. It was a brief review of this strategy. Today I would like to show you how I use this strategy but without a whole life policy behind the “Infinite Banking”. What Is Infinite Banking? If you do not want Continue reading →

Posted by Martin March 28, 2013

A Curious History of a Sucker

A Curious History of a Sucker

Once a friend of mine asked me why I named my website “Hello Suckers”. I told her it was because the web site was about investing and that all my investing career was one big disaster at that time. I invested like a sucker and I was losing money. Jesse Livermore called these people “suckers”. Continue reading →

Posted by Martin March 18, 2013

Calendar page added

Calendar page added

I like to watch my investments on regular basis. One thing I like the best is to see when my account receives payments. It is like a payday but this time it is monthly and sometimes several times in a month. In our office we say “TGIF PD MF” every Friday when we receive a Continue reading →

Posted by Martin March 06, 2013

Stocks which sparked my attention for addition today

Stocks which sparked my attention for addition today

I typically add new stocks into my portfolio, when the overall portfolio value reaches a certain threshold (see here). Before that happens I accumulate the holdings I now hold based on their price action. At today’s high levels I am mostly waiting gor prices to drop. When the stock reverses for either a small or Continue reading →