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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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http://www.myhighdividendstocks.com/category/tip-of-the-week

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.