Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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If dollar cost averaging is your goal, I think that setting up an automatic monthly transfer of a fixed amount (or percentage amount) from a cash account to a stock fund would work better. With a stock fund, you never know how much the dividends will be, and, sometimes, when they will come. And, they are not always based on the total value of the fund.
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Should you Reinvest gains in a taxable acct? It depends! Do you need the money to live on? If you do, don’t reinvest, if you don’t need the money, then reinvest. Pretty simple. I invest in quality index funds and I would rather keep the base shares so I don’t have to sell any of them to live on so I think it’s better to live off the dividends and keep the base intact.
A couple of clarifications: you want to keep your emotions out of your investment strategy. I know too many people (me included in the early years) that hold a stock/fund way too long and lose money, mainly because they are emotionally tied to a stock/fund. Put trailing stop losses on your shares so if something happens like a % downturn or other criteria, you sell without knowing. It’s easy to buy, it’s harder to sell, especially something that has made you good money in the past. As for knowing what your dividends will be, price and date, it is posted by the fund or stock way before it happens. I can calculate what the dividend will be on the specific date, you need to know this for tax purposes every year. |
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Some of my stuff is paid the last few days of December each year but most are paid quarterly. MM yields are a little different. You can also go to your last quarterly statement and see what you got that qtr and what you have made ytd. |
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December is like any other qtr end, you will know exactly when it gets paid out by the pay date.
The easiest way is to look at your quarterly statement for your account and see what was paid for that qtr |
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When we all worked and contributed to our 401k plans each month, that was dollar cost averaging and we didn’t need the money plus we had time on our hands for the market to recover, which is old folks don’t have much anymore. |
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IMO, if you don’t invest into the market you should be more worried and lose more sleep not knowing if you will outlive your investments. This doesn’t mean you have to buy funds/stocks, it could be ultra safe money market funds at close to 5% yields.
Last edited by rsmurano; 06-19-2023 at 09:07 AM. |
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If you want to make good money in the stock market just buy what I sell and sell what I buy...;-(
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Fyi
Villages Investment Education Club, tomorrow, Thursday, 6/22, at Sea Breeze, 3:00 PM.
This time it will be a dividends discussion. Boomer
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Pogo was right. |
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