The Dividend Investing Blog

Dividend investors will often face the bond dilemma. As a dividend investor, we seek steady income while reducing risk.  Inevitably someone will ask you, “Why invest in risky dividend stocks when you can buy bonds?”. This is a fair question and one that has an easy answer and a complex answer.

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The market sub-prime mortgage meltdown has affected many stocks.  It has also hit real-estate investment trusts (REITS) where it hurts.  In these times, when analysts call for investing your money overseas and real estate investing is frowned upon, why not look at a bargain right under your nose?

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The buy order went through this morning for the Thoroughbred High Yield Dividend Folio. All the data has been updated to the database. The automated stock price update worked like a charm at 5:00PM. Cheers!

I awoke to an analyst on CNBC’s Squawk Box talking about Citigroup’s dividend.  He indicated that there would probably be a dividend cut and we will find out in mid-January.  The current dividend yield for Citigroup stands at 7.04%.  What are the potential reasons for reducing the dividend?

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I spent the better part of today working on the Thoroughbred High Yield Dividend Folio page and the back end. The first decision I had to make involved adding the Folio to the WordPress or making a different page. In the end, I felt it was more secure to add it to another page. If I wanted to add it to WordPress, then I would have to enable PHP scripting in WordPress and use a third party plugin. That didn’t appeal to me.

I decided to put all the stock information into a database. If I were to rely on Yahoo stock quote updates for the page, then it takes about 20 seconds or longer for the page to load. I wrote a script that updates the stock information to my database every day around 5:00PM eastern time. The database query on the Thoroughbred page for the stock information is lightening fast, so the page loads quickly.

I setup a window buy order at FOLIOfn for all the Thoroughbred stocks. The purchase should go through around 11:00 AM eastern tomorrow. Everyone will be able to track the progress from the Thoroughbred High Yield Dividend Folio page starting late tomorrow night. I will have to put the share and cost basis information in the database sometime tomorrow evening.

After this initial setup, the only maintenance I will have to perfom will be entering dividends as they are received. This shouldn’t be too bad, but I sure wish there was a way to automate it. As I have said on here before, I am _lazy_.

I hope to add more Folios to the blog as time goes on. This is the first and I am eager to see how well these Thoroughbreds perform.

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