stock buys

For those that have been following my blog for a while now, know that I like to make buys every single month no matter what market conditions may exist. It was this attitude I had towards investing that enabled me to continue to make monthly buys even during the depths of the financial crisis and … Read more

First, I’d like to thank everyone who commented on my post announcing the birth of my first child. I can honestly say I felt the love and well wishes from each comment written and feel truly blessed with our new addition. The comments left simply reaffirmed my admiration for our little online community and how … Read more

It’s been a long time since I wrote a post about a recent stock purchase. In fact, my last post discussing this topic dates back to January 8. No matter. As long as I can make a purchase at least once a month I’ll be following my personal goal of building up my portfolio. For … Read more

Well it happened a little faster than I anticipated but I have made my very first purchases of 2015 during the first week of the year. I guess after five days in a row of strong market sell offs in all the major indexes as well as commodities I couldn’t pass up some of the … Read more

It’s the middle of December and the headlines are still screaming lower oil prices and energy names. A few days ago I wrote a post about pure play iron and steel companies that are also experiencing the same sell off as oil. It seems that quite a few commodities are in a current free fall … Read more

With oil grabbing the headlines on a daily basis, hitting new lows and taking down every energy name listed on the exchanges, I wanted to highlight some new purchases I made that are not in the oil patch. As I have stated before, I’m not against owning the energy names I just prefer a little … Read more

As the stock market continues to make new highs with each passing week some of our stalwart core portfolio positions begin to get overlooked as we seek out new relative bargains in the market. It’s no surprise that energy and material stocks have been very popular among the dividend growth bloggers as of late since … Read more