Portfolio

I will update my portfolio every month to reflect my transactions.

30 comments:

  1. Those are really small positions. How much do you pay per trade?

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    1. Trader,

      Yea, I am new with investing. I pay $7 per trade, so I wont be doing $200 buys. lol I'll do at least $1200 from now on.

      Thanks for stop by. You are the first person to comment. :)

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    2. FFD you can use no commission ETFs to temporarily park your money. In my TD account I use a few dividend paying ETFs (average yield is 3%) and based on your contribution size you may end up holding that ETF for 6 or more months - for example if you save $200 monthly to your account you can be buying the ETF for free and in 6 months you will save 1200 dollars, so the next month you sell to get 1000 dollars out, add the new contribution to it and buy a stock while continuing saving the new cycle in the ETF. I do it that way, works well although sometimes the value of that ETF may drop, but it never was so dramatic. Check my website where I write about this strategy investing small money. If you do not mind I will post the link here:
      http://hellosuckers.net/commission-free-wealth-building-this-time-with-reit-etf/

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    3. Martin,

      Thanks for the tip. That sounds like a great Idea. I am going to read your post about it.

      Also, I follow your website. I really appreciate the tip. :)

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    4. FFD, thanks for adding me to your blogroll. i will do the same. If you need any help with investing or anything I can help, let me know or shoot me an email. I'll gladly help.

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    5. You're welcome Martin. Thanks for the offer. I sure will be needing as I am learning as I go.

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  2. Ok, thanks for your reply.
    $7 per trade is a good price. Maybe $1400 would be a nice number to keep costs under 0.5%.
    I live in Portugal and prices are higher around here.

    And we don't have many "growth dividend" companies :(

    Cheers!

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    1. Thanks for the recommendation. Good luck to you. :)

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  3. I just discovered your site and I congratulate you for your work, I will be aware of your accomplishments and our goals are similar, good luck from Spain

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    1. Thanks so much for the support and thank you for reading my blog.

      Best wishes and good luck to you too.

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  4. Imagine this stock:
    1 stock : $100
    year dividend : $2.30 (after taxes, paid and reinvested each 3 months)
    annually dividend growth : 2.3%

    You can sell the stock any time you want for $100.
    You don't pay any fee or commission to buy or sell.

    Would you buy this stock for your strategy?

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    1. Just to clariry: the $2.3 dividend is just for 1st year and is an annual value. Each 3 months of 1st year you would receive 1/4 of that.

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  5. Hi Trader.

    No, I won't buy the stock because of the 2.3% dividend growth. I will be looking for stocks with at least 5% or more in dividend growth a year.

    Thank you for your question.

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  6. FFDividend

    Nice portfolio and Great blog! I look forward to following your progress!

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    1. Thanks so much for the comment. I added you to the bloggers I follow as well. good luck to you.

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  7. Coming from a new blogger and investor always nice to see others at a farther point to keep me motivated!

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    1. Great to here!! Glad I can help. Thanks for commenting.

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  8. Awesome Blog! Good luck in your goals! I will be following!

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    1. Thank you so much. Cant wait for what the future has in store for me. Good luck to you as well.

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  9. FF have you ever considered using the Save by borrowing technique. You are losing a lot of future value giving up the earning power of that money now. It is not $7.00 a commission. It is $7.00 compounded over the next, at least thirty years.

    Save by borrowing: http://www.wikinvest.com/wiki/Save_by_borrowing_technique

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    1. Sumflow,

      I am saving $1200 - $2000 a month to invest. When I first started 3 months ago, I didn't know what I was doing and just buying with out thinking about cost. I won't be doing that any more. :)

      thanks for reading and commenting.

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  10. Good Blog, will be come back from time to time.
    You keep that money coming!
    cheers!

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    1. Thanks for checking out my blog investingidiot. Thanks :)

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  11. Hi FFdividend, this is my first time in your blog. You are building a great long run portfolio like me. Keep it up.

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    1. Thanks FJ, I hope you continue to read my blog. Thanks for stopping by.

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  12. I just came across your blog - nice portfolio! I like how you separated the companies by their respective sector.

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    1. Thanks for visiting. I hope you continue to follow me on my quest to FI.

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  13. Nice portfolio with good dividend stocks and most of them overlap with my portfolio. Good luck with your journey to financial freedom.

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  14. Great looking portfolio! I like your YOC >4%, we'll wait after 10 years and I am guessing it will be more than double! Thanks for sharing.

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  15. Nice Porfolio!

    Just keep adding and rolling that snowball down the hill :)

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