Shareholders count on dividends more than ever these days to protect their portfolios against volatile markets. Companies hoarding cash since the start of the recession are beginning to pass on some of it to their shareholders in the form of increased dividends, but it’s unlikely to match the boom of a decade ago. Moody’s Investors Continue reading →
Making 45% Annually Trading Options Against Dividend Growth Stocks
Lending Club – easy money? Yes and no…
I am stunned how easy it is to invest with Lending Club. However, I do not say it is easy money, so do nothing when investing with Lending Club. An investor still should do the due diligent work, study the loans, diversify as much as possible and reinvest. If you plan to throw your money Continue reading →
All notes in Lending Club current
As I feared on Friday last week that one of my notes may default, the borrower paid today. So all my notes are current. It however doesn’t mean anything, since the borrower may default next time, but at least the risk is lower now. Today I also purchased a new loan note completely funded by Continue reading →
Lending Club
Some time ago when the entire market was going down I was thinking how else I could boost my savings to create wealth faster than just by saving $100 a month. I was thinking whether to take a second job or not, or how to increase the money I can invest. This is why I Continue reading →
What’s happening with IGD?
Today Global Equity Dividend & Premium Opportunity Fund (IGD) dropped price by almost 6%. Why is it happening? The fund announced a distribution yesterday and it meant another distribution decrease (a third decrease in a row). ING Investments, LLC announced the monthly distributions on the common shares of two of its closed-end funds: ING Global Continue reading →
A great rally is over
Today, it happened in the markets what I though would happen when I saw on CNBC yesterday how excited these guys were about the yesterday’s rally. First what crossed my mind was, yea, wait for tomorrow. The Wall Street is too sensitive about the news and stocks respond in zig-zag move. Not to say I Continue reading →
ATHR, DV, MED a watch list update
Atheros Communications, Inc. (ATHR) failed my fundamental check list and has been dropped from the watch list. I added DeVry (DV) to the watch list as a potential buy when this selling pressure fades. And I believe it will fade and the stock will create a new buy opportunity. All the selling is based on Continue reading →
A New Year 2010 Resolution
It is the end of 2009 year. We saw a lot on the market and the entire economy this year. We saw a recovery finally breaking up and we saw the market showing incredible growth providing spectacular gains that many investors and analysts could not believe in this trend and expected the market to fail. Continue reading →
A money management in investing I.
In my post “How to create the best investment strategy” I wrote about how to start saving and investing money with small account, with small amount of money saved every month. I practice it myself in my accounts. I also advocate having two to three investing accounts with two to three different strategies and approaches Continue reading →
How to create the best investment strategy?
If you were considering investing some money besides your 401(k) plan to boost your savings and making more money for your retirement, you are maybe asking a question right now: how to do it with a small amount of money. In this post I am going to show you how I did it and what Continue reading →
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