The legendary investor Warren Buffett has two great rules for investing.  They are …

Rule 1:  Don’t lose the money.

Rule 2:  See rule number 1.

This is a huge key to successful investing.  So protecting your stock investments is probably one of the most important things you can learn and do.  This is how you make money and keep from having big losses.  You know, losses like you may have heard other investors have taken, or may have experienced yourself.

Now there are two main things you need to do to protect your portfolio.  And both are simple to understand.  So if you just do these two things, Read the rest of this entry »

One of the best, and easiest ways to find good stocks to invest in is with investment newsletters.  This is because they do all of the research for you.

Now, there are literally hundreds of these newsletters offered to the general public, and you could easily get lost in this publishing maze.  So for now, I’m going to keep it simple and just mention two of them.  They are Read the rest of this entry »

Anne Scheiber, a retired IRS agent of modest means, created $22,000,000 in wealth before she died in 1995.  She was a self-made millionaire.  What was her secret?

Well, it turns out that many of these secret millionaires seem to invest in the same kind of stocks.  And what’s particularly interesting is that these stocks are available to everyone.  And it doesn’t take Read the rest of this entry »

Buying stocks is the easiest way to own a profitable business.  And get paid part of their profits.  And you don’t even have to work at the business to get the money.

Because when you invest in stocks, you are actually buying Read the rest of this entry »

Some of my favorite dividend stocks and funds will pay you monthly, instead of quarterly.  I find it most gratifying to see these dividend payments show up in my account every month.  And you will too.  Because this is about as close to instant gratification as you can get in the investment world.

You see real results from your investments.  Month after month, their payments to you just keep showing up in your stock account.  Or in your mailbox, if you choose to receive checks paid to you.  And it feels just like you are getting a monthly paycheck.  Except better, because you didn’t have to work for it.

Wells Fargo Utilities and High Income Fund (NYSE: ERH) is one such Read the rest of this entry »

Dividend stocks offer a number of ways to make money.  This is even more apparent when you reinvest your dividends.  That is to say, you don’t spend them, but use them to buy even more stock.

Of course, you can make money with them when the price goes up.  And you can make money with them even when the price stays the same – because you are still collecting the dividend.

But what if the stock starts going down every year after you invest?

Well, here’s where it gets really interesting.  So interesting, in fact, I think you’re not going to believe the answer.

The short answer is that you can often still make money in this situation.  Believe it or not.

So let’s look at this.  We’ll use all Read the rest of this entry »

One of the keys to buying dividend stocks is to buy those that increase their dividend.  That way you will be making more and more money, because the dividend checks keep getting bigger every year.

Here’s how that works.  Let’s say you buy a Read the rest of this entry »

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As I walked out of the bank’s computer room, blinking into the bright afternoon sunlight, my head was still spinning with the financial secret I had just learned.

I had seen how someone could receive big income and never have to work again.

My stunning revelation had begun early that Saturday morning, many years ago, in Read the rest of this entry »

Millions of people are struggling with their financial future in today’s investors market. Many are still burned and discouraged from the great recession. And dwindling wages and near zero interest rates pose a daunting threat to their investing future.

But whether you are a retiree, or someone building their future nest egg, investing in dividend stocks is the near perfect, easy to execute approach. It represents a time tested, low risk approach to much higher returns.

John Roberts, former financial consultant and stockbroker, explains how you can use these special stocks to begin creating your future paychecks and raises, starting today.  It’s all laid out for you in his Read the rest of this entry »

Do you seem to be losing too much money in your stock account?  When the market drops here and there does your account seem to drop too much and too often.

Well, there are ways to protect against this, or at least minimize the losses.  And that’s important to do.

Because the legendary investor Warren Buffett has two great rules for investing.  They are … Read the rest of this entry »