My non-registered portfolio just closed today session at its highest value ever: $160 945.21. Watch out and make some space for my first $250 000 please. This is just too easy to be true. I am not in an in deep hunger of new investments at this time because I have no views on new investments. Its always surprising, but at a point, I must admit, I am holding on to the best of the best. Difficult to do better.
I would like to pay down a bit on my margin account and I need to put some money on the side for my Spring and later on summer vacation. Time is passing by really quickly, its quite shocking, and at the same time, by portfolio is just soo good that its keep growing and growing and I just have nothing to do, if not watch. And please note, I do not hold Bombardier Inc. (BBD.B) in that superb piece of art of mine. Only the best, flush the rest.
Its been said that Methanex Corporation (MX) will soon raise its dividend. Well, to that, I can only say: its about f time!!!!!
Stuff that I know that you should know too: while investing in dividend stock, the goal is not to invest in business that pay the highest dividend yield ever. Its about investing in reliable companies who are healthy enough to pay off dividend distribution to their investors and among the way, those exact great companies increase their dividend distribution over time.
Dividend investing is an affair that required patience and pure money love because richness won't come overnight. Like in my case, it took a decade to happen. With the cuttiest and more innocent domain name ever, myfirst50000.com, I guess everyone might had understand by now that my ultimate goal had never been to aspire to millions, but to build on a cash reserve and income that I can rely on. Over time, great things happen, but the road is full of traps: bad companies with bad reputation trade on the TSX - like Bombardier Inc. (BBD.B) - and risky companies paying high dividend yield also trade on the TSX. So the TSX is a mix of good and bad investments, a mix of good and bad things.
And its not the only things that come to play unfortunately. You need to know when to sale. If the TSX lost 200 points in a day for whatever reasons, fact is, the stocks that you hold in your portfolio will probably go down too and that's really normal. In that case, its not the time to sell.
Sometimes, a stock will go down and it will be a warning sign and you must follow your stock to catch any problems that could show up among the way. Common sense is not always present on the stock market, but sometimes, stock go down for obvious reasons. The best example would be a recent one: Stella Jones (SJ). SJ went down when the expectations of analysts were not met. So I did like everyone else: I dumped my SJ shares and made hundred in profits. In date of today, I have a few thousands inside my RRSP resulting from the sell waiting to be invested. I prefer to follow the movement and sell when something like this happen.
However, the goal is to invest in such great companies that most of the time, you won't have to face sell off. This is difficult, but can be done.
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