Buying stocks on pullbacks
When you break down the performance of the stock markets over a very short period of time, you can conclude that the markets are very volatile. The markets can go up and down depending on …
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The Early Retirement Financial Independence Spreadsheet Calculator
I am an Excel spreasheet nerd. So when the great J. Money shared a couple spreadsheets for calculating when you can achieve early retirement / financial freedom, I decided to create my own early retirement financial …
How we got started with dividend investing
If you look at our dividend portfolio, you will see that we are currently investing in 50 dividend paying companies. We hold these company stocks in tax-deferred accounts like RRSP and TFSA, as well as …
Don’t quibble over eighths and quarters
I have been reading “Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits” by Philip A. Fisher. This book is considered as one of the must read investment books and Warren Buffett has recommended it. In the book Fisher talked …
Power of dividend reinvestment plan (DRIP)
I’ll start the blog post with a quote from one of the smartest men that ever lived. “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who …
3 key questions to ask before investing
Finding the right kind of investment is an important factor in generating passive income and have your money working hard for you. There are a lot of things you can invest in, this includes GIC, bonds, stocks, …
My dividend investing approach
There are many ways to achieve financial independence, for me the primary method is through investing in dividend paying stocks. Why dividend paying stocks? Because I like the idea of owning part of the company and …