All of the stocks mentioned trade in a 52 week hi low window.  Just buy the highest dividend paying stocks with a low PE and positive 5 year average earnings growth rate at anytime the stock is trading within 10% of its 52 week low.  Don't speculate on when to buy, the stock will trade near its 52 week low sometime in ...more

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Investing is nothing more than today's purchase of future earnings.  MBA's call it NPV.  The COST of investing is the markets' expectation of those earnings which may manifest as irrational NPV (inconsistent discount rate).  Principal is maintained via quantification of these earnings, read dividends.  Smart investing ...more

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Re-TOG, LLY pays +-5% and has for the past ten years or so.  So not selling it has at least "returned" that.  This author is confused.

Does anybody have any idea what this author means by this:  "since mid-2009, LLY has returned less than 3% annually since rebounding from its bear market lows"  I don't think this article was ever checked for logic.  Sheesh.

If the assumption is you will always have a car payment, which the article states.  I would figure it as cost per mile per year.  Then decide if leasing or buying is a better option.  In almost all cases your cost per mile driven is cheaper with a lease.  Also, with a lease you drive a nicer car more frequently.  In th...more