Cash is Trash is a saying you often hear investors make. This phrase was most recently spouted by Ray Dalio. He said it in 2020 and he is still saying it. On the other hand, investors like Warren Buffet are known for holding a good bit of cash. In the latest Berkshire-Hathaway investor newsletter, Buffet…
One of the absolute best sources of passive income is digital products. There’s an initial investment in making the product, paying for website hosting, and getting it all set up. However, after that, it’s largely a super passive source of income. Today I’m going to go over all the reasons I think Digital Products are…
I was trying to decide what I wanted to write about next. I kept seeing people on Reddit get all googly-eyed about buying AT&T or Verizon stock because of the correction today. They’re cheap! As if that is a good reason to buy a stock. I can’t pass up that big AT&T dividend! I’m going…
These stocks are outperforming the market over the last month I want to look at what stocks in my portfolio are outperforming the market over the last month. Some are outperforming over the last three months. A few have been under performing over the last year. Ingles Fortinet General Mills Marten Transport Ennis Cigna Putnam…
I continue to make progress with my Passive Income. Some weeks it feels like I’m moving at a snail’s pace; however, I can see in my spreadsheet I’ve trended up over the last year. This is in fact the most ‘passive’ income I’ve made in one month. Some months are better than others. I think…
I began investing back in the mid 2000’s. Besides VTSAX, the only other investment I made was silver. Today I want to review how that silver investment turned out. Would I have been better off buying more VTSAX instead of silver? What are the disadvantages of investing in precious metals. I still have my receipt…
Tracking your Dividends Do you want to keep up with your dividends in an easy & free way? There is no need to set up your own Excel Spreadsheet to do this. Enter TrackYourDividends.com. I personally used an Excel spreadsheet for years. It works, but putting in things manually and constantly updating is a lot…
Top Dividend Focused ETFs Compared / SCHD or VYM Table of Contents: Brief History of Schwab and Vanguard Charles Schwab is in the top 10 largest banking institutions in America, with over 8 trillion in assets for clients. Schwab was founded in the early 1970’s. Vanguard is of course one of the longest running and…
Why YouTube is indirectly one of the best sources of Passive Income I’ve had a YouTube channel for over a decade, with various degrees of success. However, one thing holds true over the long-term, YouTube has led to more passive income than any other channel for me. Please understand, I’m not referring to the money…
Some of the stocks in my portfolio function primarily as cash flow or dividend stocks. Ennis is one I’ve had in my portfolio off and on for a number of years. I’ve bought and held it for awhile, then sold when I felt it got overvalued. A few months back, I bought in again at…
Price to Cash Flow, sometimes written as P/CF, is one of my favorite metrics for weeding through stocks. Price to Cash Flow is basically the price divided by the operating cash flow. Another screen I often do is Return on Equity because it helps measure how efficient management is. All of these stocks had a…
If you’ve been around my channel for any length of time, you’ll know I like trucking stocks. I’ve owned quite a few of them over the years-Schneider National Trucking, SAIA, and Marten Transport. I got out of Schneider with a small profit a few years back, but it was a frustrating experience. The stock didn’t…
It’s been a good bit since I checked to see how my graded comic books have been doing. I use the word “investment” lightly here, because I buy comic books as a hobby. Although most of these I bought because I like the characters and books, some of them I did buy as investments. The majority of these comic books are silver age or older books, only a few from the modern era.
I picked these investment quotes because I think they teach good lessons, or I find them particularly relevant in today’s macro-economic environment. Some quotes from Warren Buffett, Paul Tudor Jones, and even Albert Einstein.
What platform should you use for your online course? Udemy or Skillshare? What are the pros and cons associated with each of them? Which one do I recommend for beginners? I’m providing answers to each of these questions and sharing my own experiences with both.