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Plunged More Cash Into My DRiPs Today, Made it to #83 in Wisebread’s Rankings

March 5, 2009 · 1 comment

in diversification, portfolio, purchases, stock picks

Sending off some smallish-sized cheques for Emera (EMA), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Imperial Oil (IMO), CIBC (CM) and Bell Aliant (BA.UN).
My new DRIPPING goals:

make at least 10 optional cash investments before putting them back into my online broker, in order to maximize the leverage I can on no-fee investments.
make at least one investment per year [...]

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Funding My US Dollar Dividend Account with Intel

March 3, 2009 · 2 comments

in portfolio, stock picks, technology

I don’t usually treat my blog like a trading diary, and I don’t intend to spit out a bunch of numbers that no one can read or won’t yawn over.  But some readers have asked me to share more of my successes, and so in that vein I’ll keep you posted on what I’m buying, [...]

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DRIP Investment Strategy: Scotiabank, TransAlta, TransCanada

March 2, 2009 · 4 comments

in DRIPs, portfolio, stock picks

Last month I invested in Telus (for its growth and rising dividends), Suncor (needs no explanation, I hope), RioCan (extremely cheap pricing right now) and Canadian General Investments (just because I haven’t given it attention in a while).
This month’s DRIPs include Scotiabank (BNS), TransAlta (TA) and TransCanada (TRP).  It’s partly because their investment dates are [...]

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My February 2009 accomplishments

February 28, 2009 · 5 comments

in accomplishments, portfolio, stock picks

paid off $100 of student loan
obtained a U.S. credit card (I’m from Canada) for emergency purposes and credit-building
paid off and lowered Canadian VISA credit card limit by $500
invested $700 into my DRIPs
bought $1500 of dividend-paying stock*
increased overall networth by $2800
increased January quarter cashflow by about $18.00
increased monthly cashflow by $3.50

*includes managing to buy Toronto-Dominion Bank [...]

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Portfolio Update – DOW Crash Causes Firesale on Canadian Bank Stocks

February 21, 2009 · 1 comment

in DJIA, portfolio, purchases, stock picks

Well, in case you don’t know yet, late yesterday and then all day today the stock market crash fell quite a bit MORE below its November lows (we’re definitely in new territory now) to close at 7365.67.  We’re now back at 1997 levels.  I’m not sure that that means that 25 years or so of [...]

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Portfolio Tips: Networth and Cashflow Numbers

January 7, 2009 · 0 comments

in cashflow, networth, portfolio

With all the negative news out there about the economy – which you know has fully filtered its way through society when there are regular popular talks about it given by academics at universities – it seems to be a good time to concentrate on what’s been working for me in my portfolio.
I finished up [...]

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Portfolio and Earnings Update

November 7, 2008 · 0 comments

in cashflow, portfolio

One of my readers suggested I post some numbers regarding my portfolio so that others can see what I’m doing.  I haven’t done this before since I do want to maintain some degree of privacy but also I’ve just felt that there’s no need to really post that or boast – in other words, it [...]

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