I don’t talk much about Cryptocurrency here on this “channel,” but I’m an avid investor in Ethereum, Stellar Lumens, and Cardano. Personally, I’m more interested in the Defi aspect of things. These past two weeks has show some INCREDIBLE gains in the crypto market. Some alt coins are going up over 40% over the last …
Here is my October Passive Income Report: Patreon-$113.29 Adsense-$5.34; traffic is down on my music website considerably. Not sure what is going on but ever since I converted to https my traffic has dropped off! This truly affects ad revenue. Dividends $69.13 Amazon Affiliate $0.18; Once again Amazon continues to be the weakest link, just …
I just passed one of my milestones, breaking $300 in PASSIVE INCOME. Here is my breakdown of how I did it 1)Patreon $114.96 Patreon continues to be my outperformer, I love this site. 2)Google Adsense $3.04 3)Teachable $58.62 Teachable is where I sell my Digital Music Teaching videos for download and sale. 4)Skillshare $26.85 Not …
Here are My Top Growth Stock Picks for 2020. I do own all of these stocks but two. FORTINET NETFLIX MIMECASE TYLER TECHNOLOGIES IDEXX CHEWY GENPACT FACEBOOK This chart provides a summary of data I look at when evaluating growth stocks-Things like EPS growth (quarterly and yearly basis) Return on Equity Predicted EPS growth Cash …
Stock Investing Tips and Mistakes I learned from Chasing Dividends: Do not chase DIVIDENDS. You will Under perform the market. Look at the following ETF’s-ITOT vs NOBL vs DGRO. You will find that taking on the additional risk of a concentrated dividend portfolio did not provide you with any additional rewards this year. The more …
Today I’ll be going over my breakdown of passive income for the month of June. As usual, this comes from Patreon, online music courses, digital products, Adsense, and more. Dividends are also included with a more extensive Dividend breakdown below. My passive income continues to grow each month, which is all I can ask for. …
To start a SERVICE BASED BUSINESS, you need to find a problem and solve it. Here are a couple of ideas to get your brain storming. These aren’t the only ones of course but hopefully enough to get you thinking. 1)Music teacher or private music performer (This is what I do!) 2)DJ-Maybe you like getting …
For passive income, my Mid-June is looking good so far. Here is last months report if you want to compare: I’m already making DIGITAL PRODUCT sales and it is only the second week. In addition, I’m improving my sales via Amazon affiliates. Let’s get to the numbers on my Passive Income Journey here: Patreon so …
The two main ETF’s I’m buying this month are QQQ and ITOT. QQQ is weighted towards the Nasdaq and technology. I think during this Coronavirus crash, weighing heavier towards technology is a wise move. So far, it has paid off quite well. I just added $400 to my ROTH IRA and $500 to my Traditional …
So, I’m STARTING to concentrate more on my passive income besides dividends. More income equals more money to invest. I need to get the cash flow coming in more so I can invest it and compound it even faster. As the passive income wheel turns….. I’m gradually finding out what works for me and what …
Here are my DIVIDENDS for the month of May. If you’d like to compare to last month, here you go: First up is my BROKERAGE account, here they are: Putnam Municipal Income Closed End Fund paid me 0.13 cents. Ha, if you haven’t seen my post before, I bought into this over a year ago …
Here is my latest youtube video where I detail how my GROWTH stocks are killing my DIVIDEND stocks. How are your dividend stocks fairing in this Coronavirus Correction? I’ve had THREE Dividend cuts and that sure hasn’t helped things My top performers continue to be Fortinet, Netflix, and General Mills. I am up over 30% …
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Here are my DIVIDENDS for the month of April: 1)Macy’s-I sold out of Macy’s a while back but for some reason I’m still getting dividends. Hey no arguments. Macy’s paid me $4.53 2)Eastman Chemicals paid me $33.00 3)Schneider Trucking paid me .91 cents 4)QQQ $1.45 So as you can see not a WHOLE LOT in …
So, over the last month I’ve been doing more SWING TRADING. What is SWING TRADING? Swing trading is when you specifically buy a stock with the intention of selling it shortly thereafter. Hold times can be a few days to a few weeks. Home Depot (in my IRA): I bought this 3/16 through 3/20 and …
I’ve sold very FEW things on eBay this past month. This was partly due to mostly concentrating on cleaning things out at my parent’s house and trying to sell those things for my mom. Not to mention just scrambling to increase my online music business in a bunch of different ways. I lost about $400 …
1)Buy and Hold is a great strategy but not ALWAYS the best strategy. I have had serious winners (up 30%) turn to losers (down 30%) in a hurry. I held on because I believed in buy and hold. Meanwhile, I would have been better off to take some off the table. I ALWAYS take a …
I will preface this article by stating I do a good bit of “Dividend Investing.” At the same time, it is not all I do. One common argument by dividend investors is that by focusing on Dividends, you are more protected during a market correction, recession or bear market. How has that technique faired in …
Stocks to Fight the Coronavirus Crash Lots of crazy happenings here in the world due to this Global Pandemic. Here in Atlanta, GA most businesses are closed, some cities even have curfews. People are rushing to stock up on essentials such as food, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer. On the other hand, traffic at our …
While I said I was working on REDUCING positions, I managed to INCREASE positions. I guess the deals got too good. I started a small position in HOME DEPOT. I do feel it can go a little lower here but Home Depot will be fine long-term and I thought it was a good chance to …
Stock market during C19 The Coronavirus continues to tear through the world. The stock market briefly entered bear market territory yesterday; however, after Trump’s National emergency speech, it flew up over 9%. This was all during the last twenty mins of today’s market. Wowzers, who would have thought. What stocks have I recently bought? I …
Ok, it is that time again. Time to look at my dividend returns for the month. Let me start off by saying I got 33.9% more dividend income this quarter than I did 3 quarters ago (same companies reporting). I went from $76. 32 to $102.19; I’m certainly pleased. Here are the six sources of …
Wal-mart is one of those stocks that’s often recommended as a Recession-proof stock. It’s also often recommended for a Dividend Stock portfolio. However, I’m going to go against the tide and say at this current price and valuation, I can’t recommend this stock. Why I don’t like Wal-mart stock DECLINING TOTAL SHAREHOLDER EQUITY 2017-77,798,000; 2018-77,869,000; …
I think it’s time I give an update on my Ebay Toy and Board Game Side Hustle. These are just a few of the sales I made. I am getting better at the “business” due to more efficient listing methods as well as improved shipping methods that are reducing shipping costs by around 20%. The …
I recently began supercharging my portfolio with more growth and tech stocks. Fortinet had an earnings report today. How did it do? Fortinet beat earnings and revenue. A 21% increase in revenue year over year here. Earnings of .76 vs. .59 from this quarter a year ago. So, that is looking pretty awesome here. Gross …
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What is a Total Market ETF? A total market ETF is an ETF that invests in the larger scope of the market. It doesn’t limit itself to only Large caps; it invests in smaller and mid cap stocks as well. Important-A Total market etf isn’t a global ETF, so you’ll still be lacking international exposure …
In efforts to supercharge my portfolio with some growth stocks I recently added Fortinet to the lineup: Fortinet is a Cybersecurity company with some nice fundamentals. They do the usual firewall security stuff; however, one of their hot-ticket items is SD-WAN (Software-defined wide Area Networks). They have even surpassed Cisco with sales in SD-WAN. Their …
PMM, or Putnam Managed Muni Income, has been a nice little addition to my portfolio. I bought starting on May 20th, 2019. My total return has been around 8% over the last 8 months, this is due to buying at a variety of times throughout the year ( a few times rather high). While it …
Personally, I’m pleased with the new NFLX report. I don’t think NFLX was as affected by the other streaming services as they thought they would be. I also think it shows the possibilities of international growth for Netflix in the future. Just today, we got an announcement that there is going to be a Witcher …
Okay, it’s that time again. My January Dividend Report along with some notes on Dividends: Brokerage Account AEO $22.96 PMM (Putnam Municipal CEF) $7.36 SNDR $3.30 Macy’s $4.53 Eastman Chemicals $33 Quest Diagnostics $4.08 Leggett and Platt $14 Total = $89.23. If we look at three months back ago (same companies last report) we see …
As you can see above, the price has run away from the earnings. Oddly enough, back in Q1 of 2019 we saw the opposite, EPS ran away from the share price. It’s like Apple stock is lagging it’s earnings a couple of quarters. Q1 it was undervalued and now overvalued on an earnings perspective. 4.14% …
It’s been a bit since I reported on my side hustle, how is it going? Well, I’m still selling off some of the toys and board games I bought over a month ago. The thing with inventory is you don’t know when it will move necessarily. However, this week started off good, I did manage …
Lately, I’ve been discussing TOTAL RETURN a lot. Many young dividend investors chase high yielding investments without considering TOTAL RETURN. However, your goal is to have a larger and larger number in your account at the end of this game for retirement, so you not only want dividends, you want growth and large price appreciation …