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TIP OF THE WEEK - Four Important Tickers to Monitor on a Weekly Basis. They Affect Your Wealth.

Four Important Tickers to Monitor on a Weekly Basis. They Affect Your Wealth.
Jason Brizic
Feb. 11, 2011

Last week's tip of the week focused on how I like to setup my chart views and indicators on www.stockcharts.com . Click on this link to read last week's tip of the week (http://bit.ly/LastTotW ). This week I would like to offer you my list of favorite tickers that I monitor using StockCharts.com and briefly why. This will save you time looking them up.

S&P 500 index - Use ticker $SPX. This ticker returns the S&P 500 large cap index. It is more representative of the US stock market than the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 stocks. The Dow is abnormally high because AIG was replaced by Kraft Foods. Big losers like AIG don't fall out of the S&P500 so easily. Consider the S&P 500 to be the market your trying to beat with your high dividend stock portfolio.
http://bit.ly/3yrSP500 Gold - Use ticker $GOLD. This ticker returns the price of gold at the end of the day. Physical gold coins belong in your investment plans as a crisis hedge and non-correlator. Unfortunately you can't see the intraday price of gold with this one. Use www.kitco.com or symbol GLD on Google Finance or stockcharts.com to see gold's intraday moves. Remember to multiply GLD's price times ten to get the price of gold. GLD does have one advantage over the kitco.com spot prices - GLD includes volume info.
http://bit.ly/3yrGold Oil - Use ticker $WTIC. WTIC stands for west Texas intermediate crude otherwise known as light crude oil. We can use oil as a non-correlator in our high dividend stock portfolios. So it is important to know the recent price of oil has been before you purchase any energy related ETFs, oil stocks, or energy related mutual funds. Also, many oil related stocks have high dividends above 6%. You can factor the oil price into your decision to buy high dividend oil stocks.
http://bit.ly/3yrOil Commodities - Use ticker $CCI. The Continuous Commodities Index (CCI) is an index of commodities which is not dominated by oil. It includes other commodities such as grains, meats, tropicals, and metals. For more info on this commodity index please go here: http://www.zealllc.com/2008/commcycl.htm. Commodities are good non-correlators for your portfolio and some of them like copper are leading economic indicators. Price inflation also hits commodities first. It is important to monitor them. The CCI lets you view them as a group.
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TIP OF THE WEEK - Powerful, Free Stock Charting Software

Powerful, Free Stock Charting Software
Jason Brizic
Feb. 4, 2011

I love to use www.stockcharts.com to aid the timing of my buying and selling after I have performed my fundamental analysis. Their graphics are crisp. They are the only website that I have found that combines my favorite indicators on one chart: candlesticks, the continuous commodity index (CCI), Bollinger bands, moving average convergence divergence (MACD), and volume behind the price.

http://bit.ly/StockChartsSample

Here are the steps I take to setup my charts in less than 10 seconds:
1. Leave the Type of chart: set to SharpChart.
2. Type in the ticker symbol and click Go.
3. Change the Period to Weekly.
4. Scroll down to Chart Attributes; change Size to Landscape.
5. Check the following checkboxes: Full Quote, Price Labels
6. Uncheck the Log Scale checkbox.
7. Scroll down to the Overlays area. Change the one that says -None- to Bollinger Bands
8. Scroll down to the Indicators area. Change the one that says RSI to CCI

Unfortunately, the free version does not display dividend information on the chart like the way Google Finance does. To learn how I use these indicators to help time my buys and sells please subscribe to www.myhighdividendstocks.com/feed . I will be explaining them in upcoming posts, so don't forget to subscribe the feed while you are thinking about it.

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TIP OF THE WEEK - How to easily spot a high dividend impostor

How to spot a high dividend impostor

Jason Brizic

Jan. 21, 2011

Last week's tip of the week covered the use of Google Finance's stock screener to find high dividend stocks.  Sometimes the companies that the stock screener outputs to you haven't paid a quarterly dividend in several quarters.   I have found that one of the easiest ways to determine if a company has paid a dividend every quarter in the last five years is to enter its ticker into Google Finance and adjust the price chart to 5 years time.

Google Finance's default chart views include dividends and their amounts.  You are only a click away from seeing a quick dividend history.  Google Finance has an easy to use charts that I use to find high dividend stocks.  Go to: 

I have two examples for you so you can see what I am writing about:

Tele Norte Leste Participacoes SA (ADR) 

(Public, NYSE:TNE)
Upon first glance this stock appears to have a dividend yield above 20 percent.  But when you examine its dividend record on the 5 year chart you see no consistent pattern.
TNE has a very spotty dividend record.  Enter TNE into Google Fiance and adjust the chart to 5 years.

Altria Group, Inc. 

(Public, NYSE:MO)
This tobacco stocks 5 year chart demonstrates what a consistent dividend payer looks like.  You can be certain that its 6.3 percent dividend is coming quarter after quarter.

TIP OF THE WEEK - Use the Free Google Finance Stock Screener to Find High Dividend Stocks

Use the Free Google Finance Stock Screener to Find High Dividend Stocks

Jason Brizic

Jan. 21, 2011

Google Finance has an easy to use stock screener that I use to find high dividend stocks.  Go to:

http://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener

You can select amongst three exchanges: AMEX, NASDAQ, or NYSE.  Or you can choose ALL exchanges to screen from the largest pool of stocks.  You can also filter on Sectors.  This is really useful when you are looking for a high dividend stock in a particular sector to diversify your portfolio.

It starts with four default stock screening criteria: Market capitalization, P/E ratio, Dividend yield in percentage, and 52 week price change in percentage.  There are dozens of additional criteria to choose from.  To add criteria simply click the + Add criteria text and an organized list of additional criteria will be displayed.

Each criterion has two text boxes for you to enter minimum and maximum values.  You can also move two sliders on the distribution graphics that sit in between the text boxes, but I prefer the text boxes for their precision.

I use the following criteria to quickly screen for high dividend stocks:

            Market cap -                         Min 150M (I only want stocks with a market cap over 150 million dollars)

            P/E ration -                          Max 20 (That is the absolute max I’m willing to pay - ever)

            Div yield (%) -                     Min 6 (you know I like 6% or higher)

            52 wk price change (%) -  no min or max (the bigger the loss the better for the contrarian in me)

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TIP OF THE WEEK - Why You Should Get Out of Debt Now

Why You Should Get Out of Debt Now

Jason Brizic

Jan. 14, 2011

Get out of consumer debt now while interest rates are at historic lows, so you can save more money when interest rates skyrocket in the new few years.  Have you ever looked at interest rate charts going back to 1979-1982?  Rates went above 20%!  People with little to no debt had savings on deposit earning huge yields..  High dividend stock yields will also be huge as the market tanks due to high interest rates.  Formulate a plan and get out of debt now while you still have a job!

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TIP OF THE WEEK - REITs and other stocks don't qualify for lower dividend tax treatment

REITs and other stocks don’t qualify for lower dividend tax treatment

Jason Brizic

Jan. 7, 2011

On December 17th, 2010 president Obama signed the bill extending the Bush tax cuts for another two years.  Investors who receive qualified dividends will continue to enjoy the same 15% maximum tax rate as capital gains.

REITs, master limited partnerships (MLPs), and some foreign stocks don’t qualify and are taxed as ordinary income.  Foreign stocks that are American Depository Receipts (ADRs) are qualified.  Annaly Capital (NYSE: NLY) and American Capital Agency Corp(Nasdaq: AGNC) are among the many high-yielding REITs whose dividends don't qualify for the 15% maximum rate.

REITs, MLPs, and foreign dividends are taxed at the rate of your ordinary income.  For most investors that means 25%, 28%, 33%, or 35% dividend tax depending on your income.

Tax bracket

AGNC after tax dividend yield

@ 19.5% market yield

NLY after tax dividend yield

@ 14.6% market yield

10%

17.55%

13.14%

15%

16.56%

12.41%

25%

14.63%

10.95%

28%

14.04%

10.51%

33%

13.07%

9.78%

35%

12.68%

9.49%

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