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New Purchases – 12/09/14
I’m reporting my automatic purchases for this week: I Bought: $450 of BBL $200 of MCD $150 of ESV *In a separate transaction, I also purchased another 100 shares of TD at $46.32/share. I used $800 in...
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New Purchases – 12/16/14
I’m reporting my automatic purchases for this past week: I Bought: $350 of BBL $350 of CVX $100 of BP I also have 200 shares of BBVA assigned that is mentioned on my options page. I used $800 in new...
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New Purchases – 12/23/14
I’m reporting my automatic purchases for this past week: I Bought: $350 of BBL $350 of CVX $100 of BP I used $800 in new capital and added $40.00/year to my dividend income. This is an average yield...
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New Purchases – 12/30/14
I’m reporting my automatic purchases for this past week: I Bought: $350 of JNJ $450 of COP I used $800 in new capital and added $28.40/year to my dividend income. This is an average yield of about...
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Monthly Update – December 2014
I’m a little late getting this out but better late than ever. I’ll try and have a yearly review out shortly. I hope everyone had a great holidays and a happy new year! Below is a summary of my...
View ArticleBlogging Sabbatical
Many of you have probably noticed a big slow-down in the amount of posts I’ve had lately. I’m actually way behind several I had planned to write. Well, I’ve had a lot going on in both work and in my...
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Happy New Year and Welcome Rental #2
I know, I know. I haven’t been on top of updates much lately. As part of my New Year’s resolution, I plan to get more organized and start tracking my finances much better. That was, of course, the...
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Rental #2 has leased
I wanted to update everyone on this second rental property. It took a couple of months but it was finally rented. Below are the original estimates. I’ve included in red the actual numbers. 3 bed/2...
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A Baby’s First Stock
One of the reasons for a lack of much posting has been the birth of our first child, a healthy baby boy. And what better way to start him out than to purchase his first shares of stock! I opened a...
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Review of the Intermatic ST01: The Best Low Watt LED Timer on the Market
Intermatic ST01 7 Day Programmable In Wall Digital Timer Switch for Lights and Appliances, Astronomic, Self Adjusting, Heavy Duty You may have seen my previous post: DIY: How to Install a 3-way...
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June 2017 CCC Dividend Stock Rankings
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these and the market is up quite a lot so it will be interesting to see the outcome. What I Did I decided to take the CCC spreadsheet and rank the stocks based...
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Recent Sell And New Purchases
I sold out of my position of CSX recently. I decided the company has ran up enough that I could deploy the funds into better areas. Between the health of the new CEO, the fact that shares are now...
View ArticleHow I generated over $7,000 in one day of options trading
I’ve decided to keep track of my options trading again and I’ve started this month with a bang. Yes, it’s a catchy title but please let me explain. Below are the actual trades: Date Action Ticker...
View ArticleUpdate on Options Activity
Below are the actual trades: Date Action Ticker Expiration Strike Call/Put Qty Price Net close Price closeout 7/6/2017 Sell MO 1/18/2019 90 Put 1 $19.00 $1,894.55 28.5 -$955.45 7/6/2017 Sell MO...
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Forward Dividends Push Past 10,000 After AT&T (T) Purchase
That’s right, I’ve made it past a huge milestone today of 10,000 in forward dividends. That means my portfolio will pay out over $10,000 in dividends over the next 12 months not counting any...
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Update on Baby AAI’s Stock Portfolio
Baby AAI is only crawling and has little cares in the world besides food, playing and his parents. However he’s got a portfolio that’s compounding for him already. Here’s a look at the first stocks...
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Rental # 3b is Leased
Wait just a second! How did you have rental #3 if you didn’t buy another rental property you may ask and what is 3b? Well, ok so here’s what happened. I decided to call it quits with the restaurant....
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Options Update – December 2017
Well, the markets are on a tear. This has helped my puts become more profitable. I continue selling puts against companies I want to own more of and using proceeds to purchase more shares of these...
View Article2017 – A Year in Dividends
First of all, Happy New Year to everyone. I hope everyone had a wonderful 2017. With the markets on a tear, everyone’s portfolio should have some fat gains. However, these are unrealized capital...
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Options Update – January 2018
Well, the markets are on a tear. This has helped my puts become more profitable. I continue selling puts against companies I want to own more of and using proceeds to purchase more shares of these...
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