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July 15, 2016 Dividends 3 Comments

3 Stocks to Buy With Dividends Yielding More Than 4%

3 Stocks to Buy With Dividends Yielding More Than 4% Dividend investors love stocks with high yields, but they should take care never to sacrifice quality for income. If the underlying business can’t support its dividend in the long term, then investing your money in it could be a huge mistake. It’s best to … […]

July 2, 2016 Dividends No Comments

3 Dividend Aristocrats to Buy in July

3 Dividend Aristocrats to Buy in July The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats are companies that have upped their dividend payments to investors for at least 25 consecutive years. Increasingly, investors are considering this collection of companies ideal investments to own in income portfolios. Continue reading at fool.com A New Source For Dividend Growth Investors: The […]

June 21, 2016 Dividends No Comments

7 Pharmaceutical Stocks With Dividends Yielding More Than 3%

7 Pharmaceutical Stocks With Dividends Yielding More Than 3% Many income-focused investors naturally gravitate toward stocks that offer up the highest dividend yield. For healthcare investors, that typically means choosing from a list of big pharmaceutical stocks, since large-cap drug companies tend to offer some of … Continue reading at fool.com Five Dividend Stocks To […]

May 26, 2016 Dividends No Comments

Wells Fargo: Dividend Snapshot

Wells Fargo: Dividend Snapshot If you’re looking for a good dividend stock in the banking sector, you could do a lot worse than Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC). The 154-year-old bank has made its quarterly payout a priority over the years, and its dedication to distributing profits is alive and … Continue reading at fool.com Are The […]

May 25, 2016 Dividends 13 Comments

Should eBay Start Paying a Dividend?

Should eBay Start Paying a Dividend? eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) has a rock-solid balance sheet and generates healthy cash flows on a regular basis. If management wanted to distribute dividends to investors, the company certainly has the financial resources to do so. However, just because eBay has the … Continue reading at fool.com Dividend Health Checkup Podcast […]

May 24, 2016 Dividends One Comment

3 Stocks With a Bigger Dividend Than Coca-Cola

3 Stocks With a Bigger Dividend Than Coca-Cola Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE:KO) is widely considered to be one of the safest and strongest dividend stocks in existence. The beverage maker has a staggering 54-year history of consecutive dividend increases, earning it the coveted “dividend aristocrat” status. Continue reading at fool.com Ex-Dividend Reminder: Corning, Aircastle and Elbit […]

April 29, 2016 Dividends 19 Comments

Top 10 Financial Ratios for Successful Dividend Investing

Top 10 Financial Ratios for Successful Dividend Investing Dividend investing is part art, part science. Financial ratios make up most of the science behind investing. What exactly are financial ratios? For the purposes of this article, we define financial ratios as any number or calculation used by dividend … Continue reading at investorplace.com Ex-Dividend Reminder: […]

April 3, 2016 Dividends One Comment

These 3 Dividend Stocks Could Slash Their Payouts

These 3 Dividend Stocks Could Slash Their Payouts Sometimes it’s necessary, although it’s never pretty: from time to time, firms slash their dividends. Rarely will a company signal its intention to do so — management will often insist that the dividend remains a top priority even as its core business is … Continue reading at […]

Another advantage that 4x has over stocks is the advantage of trading focus. Instead of having to choose between over 4,000 stocks you can deal with 4 main currency pairs. Any good business person knows that focusing on too many things is a recipe for financial disaster and this can hold equally true in the stock market. A stock trader also must grapple with the time issue doing research on all those potential stocks presents. It is also much easier to become familiar with 4 things as opposed to 4,000 things. Focus is the name of the game and 4x trading makes it much easier to do so.

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