Investing 102

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by SSLance

This is basically in a nutshell...what drove me from the market in 2011. It just didn't make any sense, especially to an analytical person like myself.

The Steady Eddie dividend income investing approach is different though...as I have been shown.

The wife made her first purchase yesterday, I walked her through putting the order in on the phone. The company announces earnings today...should be interesting to watch her response.

Dividends and "best of class" and Total Return is what will make you money longer term and get you a good nights sleep. Let the gyrations be what they will because nobody can guess what they're going to be tomorrow or next month. I like to FOLLOW the market... I like to be AWARE of trends... I want to be INFORMED...

I used to absolutely freak out if a stock I owned went down a dollar. Never mind that the dollar was .02% of the value... That was it! SELL! SELL IT ALL!

That is a great way to go thru a lot of money. Because then the next day it would go UP 3% and I'd buy it all back.

That was back in the 80's and 90's... I've learned how to make money since then.