It's like getting your car set up -- once it's set up -- you just concentrate on the driving - not what the car is doing (or not doing). LOL
The biggest thing I think I've tried to get people to understand in this whole thread --- the market goes UP and the market goes DOWN.... Get over it! Get some investments that grow over the long haul - pay you dividends - and you'll be set!
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Originally Posted by SSLance
I've been back in the market about a year and a half steadily following the Dividend Growth strategy. As of today, MO is my biggest gainer, showing up net 39.2 %. Next closest is a Utility...ES at 9.34%.
I use Quicken to track my investments and it adds my dividend reinvestments to my initial cost basis and calculates returns off of the total, so it doesn't give me a true return on investment if you want to look at just the initial investments and total return. Someday I plan on setting up a spreadsheet to do just that.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting back...watching my investments grow even in trying times and my only concerns are if I should add more in and if so, where.
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