Not exact matches
My IRAs are primarily
in widow and orphan dividend growth
stocks, and I
keep about one year's
worth of expenses
in high - yield preferred ETFs as an emergency fund.
My friend Jon Krinsky, ace technician for MKM Partners, points out a divergence
worth keeping an eye on
in the New York
Stock Exchange Composite (NYA)...
I think this is also
worth keeping in mind, as many investors would judge utility
stocks mainly by dividend yield.
Add
in employees who didn't know the
stock and couldn't be bothered to check
in the back to see if they had a title I was looking for (and that their computers said they had) and I decided it wasn't
worth my time or money to
keep going there.
If your investment horizon (this is, the time you plan to
keep the money invested) is several years, you can have a reasonable assurance that a portfolio of
stock and bonds will be
worth the same or more after that many years, no matter if it loses value
in the short term.
However, Gordon Pape notes that interest rates are low right now, so you may still get a better bang for each dollar's
worth of investments by
keeping stocks, ETFs or mutual funds
in your tax - free savings account.
If you think it's going to
keep growing you can use these complex formulas that they teach
in business school, things that I learned about like the capital asset pricing model or discount cash flow models and decide what a share of
stock is
worth.
If I purchase $ 1000
in stocks and at the end of the year they are
worth $ 1200 but I don't cash them out, I
keep the
stock.
That's why I
keep invested
in the market and continue buying — because I think the
stocks I purchase today will be
worth a good amount more 20 years from now, I can't predict when the big jumps will happen, and I don't want to miss any part of the ride up.
Whether or not live substrate is
worth the time and effort it takes to
keep in stock depends on the individual retailer.
Stages may need to be replayed
in order to
keep a healthy
stock of items, but the rewards can be
worth it.