In early April I was fortunate enough to get some distributions from my business. I used it to payoff the car, payoff my wife’s student loans, set aside some for taxes this year (ouch! the new tax laws did not help us at all), as well as payoff some of...
March 2019 brought in $1497.15. This was down very slightly from last March, which brought in $1560.64. When you take out the contribution of $116.66 from NAVI (which I sold) that was part of last March, I didn’t do too bad. I’m doing this post from my iPad so I’ll...
Today I’m started Part 1 of a new multipart crytocurrency blog series. How many parts there will be is to be decided, but it will be at least two parts since I’m already almost done with Part 2. I remember back in 2009 hearing about this new crytocurrency called Bitcoin....
May 2018 was another great month and provided a substantial increase from last year. Last May brought in $632.02. This May brought in $941.62…almost another month reaching $1000. I’ll definitely hit that mark next year. Options: See my Options trading page for open trades. I have no premium income to...
Better late than never. This seems to be the theme lately. I’ve been way too busy with work and wedding planning to keep this up-to-date. I’m going to do my best, but things will settle down after the wedding in September. The good news is that the investments continue to...
Better late than never! There’s been a lot of developments in my life that have taken me away from being able to update the blog as regularly. Foremost, I got engaged a couple of weeks ago. I’m very excited to begin this next part of my life with a wonderful...
This January I received $350.94, compared with $156.89 in January 2017. This is an increase of 124%. I also maxed out my Roth IRA this month. In an upcoming post I’ll be talking about the investments that I made with that money. Options: See my options trading page for further...
Statistics Beginning 2017 Account Value: $242,093.83 Ending 2017 Account Value: $429,504.78 Net Contribution: $132,539.41 Dividend income in 2017: $7,614.25 Forward 12-month dividends: $9,565.88 Options income in 2017: $779.86 Total lifetime dividend income: $20,046.17 Post-tax salary: $219,438 Effect of dividend increases: $570.58. This is equivalent to investing just over $19,000 at...
While not the most exciting of titles, I did just release version 5.1 of the dividend portfolio spreadsheet. Since the loss of the Yahoo Finance API, I had to switch to a combination of IEX and Alpha Vantage to look up stocks. While I’m still trying to figure out all...
