Tag: Investing for Dividends
Covered Calls vs. Dividends: The Best Passive Strategy
If you want to retire in America, you must build a stream of passive income. There are many ways to generate income in your sleep; however, understanding these streams is vital to building wealth. Two ways to generate a return on your invested money are selling covered calls and investing in dividend stocks. Both options…
Vacation Dividends: Use Dividends to Pay for the Rest of Your Vacations
If you are like most people, you save for your vacations every year. The money you earn is the money you save. You can afford to pay for more elaborate vacations as you make more money from your job. What if I told you someone else could pay for the rest of your vacation? Yes,…
Investing for Dividends 106: The Pros and Cons of Dividend ETFs
Whew, today’s topic is going to be controversial, at least in the dividend growth communities. I’m all about stirring the pot if it makes us all a little bit more informed. I will discuss dividend ETFs and if they will be suitable for your portfolio. I always seem to be rude, so let me get…
The Woman’s Guide to Investing
Let me start by saying that I have been married for 15 years. I would want my wife to read this quick guide to investing if something should happen to me. I hope I do not offend anyone or offer up any gender stereotypes, as that is not my intention. For the most part, there…
How to Start Dividend Investing 103: Pick Your Platform
Beginning your adventure as a dividend investor may seem daunting from the outside looking in, but that’s why I am here. In “How to Start Dividend Investing 101,” we discussed your long-term outlook for the journey. In “How to Start Dividend Investing 102,” we talked about slowly integrating dividends into your life—forming a habit of…
Blue Chip Stocks: Tasty Growth and Yummy Dividends
Building a dividend portfolio is one of the most rewarding adventures that you can choose to partake in. Watching as your stocks start to not only grow but pay you dividends can be an exciting way to spend the month. We recently talked about adding index funds to your dividend portfolio, and I explained why…
Investing for Dividends 105: How Do You Want Your Dividends Served?
Having options can make you feel more powerful than you truly are; however, sometimes, options can prove to be just what the doctor ordered. I have five entirely different dividend accounts, and each one serves me my dividends in another way. Welcome back to the Investing for Dividends Series. You can find the other articles…
High-Income Hijinks: Get Huge Income from the Stock Market
Most people invest in the stock market for capital gains. They love to watch as their stocks (or crypto) prices go up and up. It is a great ride, as long as the prices keep going up. Good for them and more power to their future wealth. I invest for income, cold-hard cash. I like…
Love Income: Try Closed-End Funds
I think that closed-end funds are my favorite products on the stock market. They aren’t very sexy, and they don’t give me sky-rocketing capital gains, but boy, do they get the job done. And what job is that? Their job is to give me large amounts of income. I use closed-end funds as the anchor…
Investing for Dividends 104: The Importance of Index Funds to Your Dividend Portfolio
When I first began to read about passive income in June 2019, I was intrigued by the Dividend Growth Investing (DGI) community. They seemed to be hardcore dividend folks who had a good pulse on how to create passive income. I wrote an article on dividend growth investing called “Stock Market Investing 102: Dividend Growth…
Hustle in Your 20s and 30s, Enjoy Your 40s and 50s
This topic is going to be a tough sell to most people, especially young people. Somewhere along the lines, we started convincing young people that they shouldn’t even attempt to get their act together until age 25. By my calculations, that leaves seven years of wasted time between ages 18-25. I chose this topic specifically…
Boring Investing is Good Investing
The stock market is always an exciting place with which to be involved. There is the hustle and bustle of news, trading, commodities, earnings reports, and scandals. Every day something new is jumping off, and something different is happening. Amidst all this excitement, it can be hard to distinguish the truth about investing. The stock…
Investing for Dividends 103: The Magic of Re-Investing
The greatest enjoyment of dividend investing is receiving little tiny paychecks throughout the month- it is magical. There is nothing like waking up to find some new money in your account. However, when you reinvest your dividends, some of that fun is taken away, at least for the time being. But, to answer the question,…
Investing for Dividends 102: Keeping Score
“But Josh, I don’t want to write things down.” I know, I know. Creating a spreadsheet is probably the most boring thing you can do in your free time. However, when it comes to dividend investing, it is a must. To truly appreciate the art of dividend investing, you have to track your…. Dividends. I…
Investing for Dividends 101: Dividends to the Rescue!
The opposite of fear is knowledge. Many people are fearful of retirement. Some people don’t fear retirement because they are too fearful to even plan for retirement. But there is nothing to fear. We do not have to worry about the safety of social security or our pension plans. We have the ability to plan,…
