Ah…. smell that fresh roast of coffee? The beans rattling in the container and the vroom sound from the grinder. It’s Saturday every morning, afternoon and night. It’s non stop, it’s busy and it’s quiet. It’s a memory, a relationship connection, it’s a get away. The moment that they call your name and hand you the special cup with the sleeve – you instantly become excited, as that moment gives you the sense of control, promise and forward-looking. I speak of the Starbucks (SBUX) corporation and I’ve been tempted to make an investment into this life-connecting organization.
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Lanny’s Recent Purchase – HCP
November is underway folks! The market has had a blood bath out there and it was time for me to re-up in a position that I already had a stake in. Let’s just say – it was about time to pump my retirement accounts back up, since I haven’t contributed to that bad boy in months. Let’s see what purchase transaction I had!
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Robinhood Review – Pros & Cons | Stock Investment Platform! [Updated: October 2020]
[Updated 10/2020] Investors looking for a platform have many options, especially with zero trading fees to buy stocks. The list of playforms that allow you to invest in stocks is extremely long, such as Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, but there have been modern breakthroughs based on smartphones and technology.
Those modern technology platforms that allow you to invest in stocks bring names in such as Robinhood, Webull, M1 Finance, to name a few. After all, the mission of these investing platforms is to help you on your financial journey. Therefore, we wanted to analyze an application/service providers for the readers, and that my friends is – Robinhood!
Lanny’s 3rd Quarter Goals Check Up
Now that 3 full quarter’s are in the book, it’s a great time to see where I stand in comparison to Q2, but also to the 2015 goals I set for myself towards the end of last year. It has been such a unique year thus far, and 9 months have come and gone. Question I have to find out now is – am I hitting my goals? Am I on pace to somehow reach those items I set? After all of the traveling, weddings, investing and life experiences – am I on track? Let’s find out! Continue reading
Lanny’s Recent Purchase – EMR (x3)
Well – I am sure you can read from the subject line – I was back at it again with a wonderful dividend aristocrat stock. It’s hard to keep staying away from this stock when the market wants to keep throwing the discounts and sales in your face! I was fortunate to have capital and make a stock purchase limit order yesterday on October 1st, 2015. I purchased Emerson Electric (EMR) for the third time in the last 2 months! Let’s find out why:
Lanny’s Recent Purchase – JNJ
Mr. Market you can keep taking that downturn all you want. As long as us Dividend Diplomats have capital and we feel there is an opportunity, we are going to try and strike, in the words of Austin Carr – throw the hammer down. The market was on a nice decline today, came slightly back, but then took another slide in the park for us. Let’s dive in about who, why and how much I bought of a certain stock!
Crushing $6,000 in Projected Dividend Income
I am very glad I have set a realistic, attainable goal this year and am churning my way to it. I remember last year, I was sprinting past my 2014 goals early and often, but this year definitely is different. This year is harder, this year is more strategic, this year takes much more effort than usual. My goal by the end of the year is to have a projected $6,750 in forward-looking dividend income, and well – this month has allowed me to reach closer to the goal, but to also cross a milestone along the path. This month events and activities have allowed me to Crush through $6,000 in projected dividend income!
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