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TRADING WISDOM

 

"The elements of good trading are: 1) cutting losses, 2) cutting losses, and 3) cutting losses. If you can follow these three rules, you may have a chance."

 ~ Ed Seykota

 

"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

~ John M. Keynes

 

 "If you trade without a stop-loss, eventually the markets will stop you from trading by creating permanent losses that can never be recovered."

~ John DiCecco (TrendCharts)

 

"Economists have correctly predicted nine of the last five recessions."

~ Paul Sameulson

 

"Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now."

~ Ed Seykota

 

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."

~ Warren Buffet

 

"When a position is moving in the direction of your trade, do the opposite of fear; but when a position is moving against the direction of your trade, do the opposite of hope."

 ~ John DiCecco (TrendCharts)

 

"As a general rule (when trading), avoid those things that give you comfort; it's usually a false comfort."

 ~ William Eckhardt

 

TrendCharts Dividend Portfolios

Our Dividend Portfolios were designed to generate a steady stream of dividend income. But it is not a 'buy and close your eyes no matter what' investment strategy.

We track each position in the two portfolios for TrendCharts Buy and Sell Signals, but we have widened the signal parameters to give the positions a little bit more wiggle room to the downside; the trade premise being that we are buying these positions for the dividend payout stream so we don't want to be whipsawed out of the trades too frequently.

As with our other portoflios we review the TrendCharts Trade Signals on a weekly basis.

On October 15, 2012 we changed the holdings of the portfolio from a two ETF structure to the following:  

US Dividend Portfolio

The portfolio will consist of 20 individual US dividend paying stocks. We will manage the portfolio as per the TrendCharts Trade Signals we receive for each individual position; 5% will be allocated to each position. The current dividend yield on this basket of stocks is 5.18%. Please see the table below for the list of the 20 stocks that will comprise the portfolio. 

Canadian Dividend Portfolio

The portfolio will consist of 20 individual Canadian dividend paying stocks. We will manage the portfolio as per the TrendCharts Trade Signals we receive for each individual position; 5% will be allocated to each position. The current dividend yield on this basket of stocks is 4.94%. Please see the table below for the list of the 20 stocks that will comprise the portfolio.  

US Dividend Portfolio 

STOCK

SYMBOL

DIVIDEND YIELD

PPL Corporation

PPL

4.91%

Vectren Corporation

VVC

4.84%

Old Republic Int

ORI

7.11%

People’s United

PBCT

5.25%

Vector Group

VGR

9.68%

Kimberly-Clark

KMB

3.44%

Pitney Bowes

PBI

11.19%

Sonoco Products

SON

3.95%

Nucor Corporation

NUE

3.76%

Leggett & Platt

LEG

4.66%

Meredith Corp

MDP

4.41%

Abbott Labs

ABT

2.90%

ConocoPhillips

COP

4.61%

Diebold Inc

DBD

3.41%

UNS Energy

UNS

4.15%

Scana Corporation

SCG

4.08%

Southern Co

SO

4.26%

Mercury General

MCY

6.08%

United Bancshares

UBSI

5.03%

Universal Corp

UVV

3.87%

 

CDN Dividend Portfolio 

STOCK

SYMBOL

DIVIDEND YIELD

Bonterra Energy

BNE

7.20%

Telus Corp

T

3.90%

Husky Energy

HSE

4.50%

Manitoba Telecom

MBT

5.13%

Laurentian Bank

LB

4.25%

Rogers Comm

RCI.B

3.80%

Emera Inc

EMA

4.01%

Transalta Corp

TA

7.63%

Rietmans Canada

RET.A

6.43%

Riocan REIT

REI.UN

5.10%

Pembina Pipeline

PPL

5.90%

Bell Alliant

BA

7.10%

Dundee Realty Corp

D.UN

5.90%

Russel Metals

RUS

5.20%

Calloway REIT

CWT.UN

5.40%

CDN Apartment REIT

CAR.UN

4.70%

Chartwell Seniors REIT

CSH.UN

5.40%

Inter Pipeline Fund

IPL.UN

4.80%

Keyera Corp

KEY

4.29%

Cineplex Inc

CGX

4.66%

 

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