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Originally Posted by SSLance
You talked me into it once again Greg... Thanks!!
I had some free time this afternoon so I finally made a spreadsheet up tracking all of my initial buys, divvies received, growth and earnings %s.
I had always tracked my investments inside Quicken, but it adds each dividend reinvestment to the initial cost basis which really skews the numbers. By figuring the earnings back against the initial investment, it gives a MUCH clearer picture of the results...and lets one make more intelligent trading decisions. With everything else going on in my life, I've let this stuff just sit and ride and while that hasn't really hurt me (thanks to Dividend Growth Investing strategy) it can be optimized which I'll be doing shortly.
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GOOD!!! This is not a sit on your hands game -- you (not YOU but everyone is you) need to pay attention - reassess where you're at - plan your next moves... plan what you're going to do and how you stack up WHEN the market takes a dump.... it's too late to start raising cash AFTER the market sucks - so if you're going to want to have some cash - best to do that when the market is hot not when it's not!
LOL