Okay, I decided to take the money from my Lunch Budget (Experiment) and put it into a REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust). Now, I don’t expect the stock price of the REIT to rise much higher than the levels that they are currently at. So you might be wondering why am I doing this? …The dividend! REITs historically… Continue reading REITs as Investments
Category: Investments
A Stock Market "What If" from My Youth
From the time I was 5 years old to about age 18, I had an uncle that would buy me shares of stocks every year for birthdays and Christmas. He was pretty good at it. By the time of the start of my junior year, the portfolio was worth about $15,000. Unfortunately, I was short on cash… Continue reading A Stock Market "What If" from My Youth
Investment Losses
Well, we are finally in the 4th quarter of 2009! Time to start looking at any losses in our brokerage accounts (this past year was bad for me, too many high beta stock). Beta is the risk factor the stock is rated at, 1 being average risk, and anything higher than 1 being more risky. If… Continue reading Investment Losses