The Dividend Investing Blog

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I started this site to help myself and to help others. For myself, I wanted to help solidify my investing philosophy and standardize my process. I enjoy receiving feedback (even the harsh criticisms), because in the end I just want to keep learning. I don’t profess to be any kind of expert. For everyone else, I hope you gain something form reading the site and the comments.

Everyone have a safe weekend and a Happy New Year!

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 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.

Tags: Thoroughbred, FOLIOfn

I was looking around for a Windows desktop blogging client.  I found one that I really like.  It is called BlogJet.  Pretty powerful program, easy to use, simple setup.  Cost is a bit high, around $45.  That seems to be the only negative I can find so far.

It didn’t take long for me to decide that Google Blogger was too limited for my tastes. Like any good band-wagoner, I jumped on the back of the Wordpress train. I have a programming background so that wasn’t my original reservation. My original problem was that I wanted to do as little as possible to get this site up and moving. My artistic abilities are rather limited as well.

Nevertheless, here we are with a new site and a new domain. I found a template that I liked and there was no looking back. If anyone else out there is thinking about setting up their own site, then just take a look around. There are tons of informational sites.

I am planning to stop by the bookstore tonight and pick up WordPress For Dummies as a reference guide. I just like having a book around to thumb through as a reference. I will give a review of it at a later date.

Tags: Wordpress, Blogger, domain