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Re: Stock Picks - With New Picks and Adjustments Added Over Time [Re: geokills] * 1
    #7967998 - 02/02/08 09:45 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)



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    #7968009 - 02/02/08 09:50 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)



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Re: Stock Picks - With New Picks and Adjustments Added Over Time [Re: Luddite] * 1
    #7968032 - 02/02/08 09:58 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

MLPs pay good dividends, have a lot of tax breaks and growth.


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Re: Stock Picks - With New Picks and Adjustments Added Over Time [Re: Luddite] * 1
    #7968063 - 02/02/08 10:08 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

KYE invests in MLPs and their affiliates, KYE also invests in U.S. and Canadian royalty trusts and income trusts, marine transportation, and other companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues from operating assets used in, or providing energy related services.
http://www.kaynefunds.com/Kye.htm

http://www.streetauthority.com/cmnts/cp/2007/archive.asp

Articles on MLPs
http://www.geocities.com/dividends4all/MLPs.htm


Everyone needs shelter, utilities and energy even during an economic slowdown.


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Re: Stock Update for October 8th, 2008 - CAT [Re: geokills]
    #9049517 - 10/08/08 06:37 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

PWE, ERF, PVX and HTE pay huge dividends at the level their at.  What do you think about them?  Look at BGF, too, its an enhanced income security, ie. stock and bond, which can be separated at some later date. BGF has a  20.07% yield at the close on October 8, 2008.
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Business_%26_Finance/Investments/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_B/forumview?bn=26324&tid=1834&mid=1843

You can look up BGF here http://www.quantumonline.com/

What do you think about PCU?


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Re: Stock Update for October 22, 2008 - FCX, GE, SDS [Re: geokills]
    #9117057 - 10/22/08 05:12 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Safe yield with ishares TIP?  According to bigcharts.com the yield is over 9% based on the last monthly dividend.
http://www.streetauthority.com/cmnts/cp/2008/03-16-treasury-funds.asp

Go here:
http://investtalk.hitfastforward.com/?p=503
scroll down to Bailout Myths.  If you listen to this after 36 minutes, they talk about TIP.  They say its safe.

Dividend History Since Inception
http://www.etfconnect.com/select/fundpages/div_history.asp?MFID=121216

How safe is the dividend from XKN?  33% yield means that if you get that dividend for three years you get your principle back and can continue to hold the shares of XKN and get more dividends.
http://www.streetauthority.com/cmnts/cp/2008/07-30-lehman-ford.asp
Ford has billions of dollars to pay off their debts with.


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Re: Stock Update for October 22, 2008 - FCX, GE, SDS [Re: Ferris]
    #9121826 - 10/23/08 03:17 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Closed-end panic could bring bargains
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/closed-end-fund-panic-could-bring/story.aspx?guid=%7BA6DABBA9%2D4386%2D4D2A%2DAD41%2DBB8B23A4F0DD%7D&tool=1&dist=bigcharts&symb=DVM&sid=1928098

Open season on closed-end funds
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/buyers-market-closed-end-funds/story.aspx?guid=%7B014B579F%2D8E99%2D4A8E%2DAFA9%2D4E1A5C9AEBEB%7D&tool=1&dist=bigcharts&symb=EOI&sid=1853223

Closed-End Fund Bargains
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122210317148063307.html?mod=MKTW&ru=MKTW

Look at news here:
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=eoi&sid=0&o_symb=eoi&freq=1&time=8&x=0&y=0

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Some interesting yahoo message board posts:

Quote:


Look on ETF connect, lower left, at the difference between total common
assets and total net assets. In an unleveraged situation, these should be equal:

http://www.etfconnect.com/select/fundpages/global.asp?MFID=3707

http://www.etfconnect.com/select/fundpages/muni.asp?MFID=3821

I don't entirely agree with Keltus on the leverage issue, as firms with
bank loans subject to call should now be safer than they were a few
months ago.

Much of what you're seeing in generally staid CEFs is blind panic.
This is not to say that such panic couldn't bring the World down but
merely that it's a day late and dollar short as is usual in these
predominately retail media.





http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Business_%26_Finance/Investments/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_A/threadview?bn=228&tid=48547&mid=48555

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Look at DVM and RFI at Cohen and Steers. The dividend at DVM is 50 % return of capital but 50 % of that is pass through of depreciation and ammortization from the portfolio holdings. It is selling at a 14% discount to NAV and pays monthly. 30% Reits, 20% utilities and 50% large dividend paying stocks. I believe it is a conservative income with growth play and also no leverage.





http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Business_%26_Finance/Investments/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_A/threadview?bn=59387&tid=75&mid=76

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Amigo, RNP RPF and RTU are all leveraged closed end funds. They may hold great stocks but timing can be everything. Look into RFI an unleveraged REIT CEF. If you don't believe bad things can happen top good CEFs look at FFC, This is a CEF of 80% preferred stocks that went from 22 to 6 because it was leveraged among other things. DVM is another unleveraged fund with 30 % reits. Leveraged CEFs are very dangerous right now so be very careful.





http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Business_%26_Finance/Investments/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_R/threadview?bn=15171&tid=74519&mid=74556


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Re: Stock Update for November 6, 2008 - PWR, DE, FSLR [Re: geokills]
    #9208059 - 11/08/08 04:38 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

Jim Cramer and some other people talk about dividend paying stocks.  What do you think about them.  Look at NAT and FRO, for example.


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Re: Stock Update for November 6, 2008 - PWR, DE, FSLR [Re: Luddite]
    #9208091 - 11/08/08 04:45 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)



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Re: Stock Update for November 12, 2008 - GS, PWR, SDS, FSLR [Re: geokills]
    #9231770 - 11/12/08 04:18 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

Did you see the video over here?
http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_(A_to_Z)/Stocks_N/threadview?m=tm&bn=12304&tid=19453&mid=19461&tof=13&off=1

There's a difference between tankers and bulk shipping.  I read one article in the WSJ about a shipping company recently that was planning on converting some of its ships to tankers.  There seems to be indications that tanker companies are doing better than bulk shipping companies.


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Re: Stock Update for November 28, 2008 - GOOG, TBT, GS, SDS, MO [Re: geokills]
    #9328159 - 11/28/08 04:28 PM (15 years, 2 months ago)

ETJ is holding up.  Its a closed end fund that holds dividend paying stocks and writes call and put options.  I think they might protect some of their portfolio with puts, too.  Both the NAV and share price haven't fallen too much compared to the rest of the market.  How long can they continue to perform?

You can look up the chart here http://www.bigcharts.com
You can look up the NAV and share price here http://www.etfconnect.com
Total Net Assets and Total Common Assets are the same, so it looks like they don't have any leverage, which is good if the market goes down again.  Some closed end funds have had to sell assets to pay off their leverage (ie. AMPS or ARPS).

Also, NAT has practically no debt compared to FRO which might be an advantage over FRO.


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Re: Stock Update for December 1, 2008 - SDS [Re: geokills]
    #9345214 - 12/01/08 04:15 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

What do you think about holding Proshares shorts or ultrashorts for a couple months or even a year as a hedge?  Long positions could include a lot of defensive dividend paying stocks, ETFs, CEFs, etc.


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Re: Stock Update for December 1, 2008 - SDS [Re: Ferris]
    #9345951 - 12/01/08 05:57 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Read this.

President-elect Barack Obama proposes economic suicide for US
By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 11:01pm GMT 29/11/2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/11/30/do3010.xml


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Re: Stock Update for December 4, 2008 - MCD, PWR, TBT [Re: geokills]
    #9379722 - 12/06/08 03:25 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Food tends to hold up during a recession.  BGF is a hybrid security, part bond, part stock and pays a dividend.  I have some shares of this.  I noticed FOF has a high yield now and no leverage according to http://www.etfconnect.com
(Total Net Assets = Total Common Assets)


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Re: Stock Update for December 22, 2008 - [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #9551982 - 01/05/09 04:13 PM (15 years, 25 days ago)

I found this article today.  They talk about the Ultrashorts.

ETF Math Lesson: Leverage Can Produce Unexpected Returns

By TOM LAURICELLA
Exchange-traded funds that use leverage are proof positive why investors need to read the fine print.

Many of these funds promise to deliver twice the return of an underlying stock or bond index -- or move twice as much in the opposite direction. So with the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index down 38.5% in 2008, a double-leveraged fund designed to profit when the S&P 500 falls would be up 77%, right?

Wrong. The UltraShort S&P500 ProShares rose 61%. Even more confusing, the ProShares fund designed to return twice the opposite of the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index was down 50% for 2008, while the index was also down, by 43%.

The issue is that these funds are designed to double the index's return -- or double the inverse of that return -- on a daily basis. The compounding of those daily moves can result in longer-term returns that have a very different relationship to the longer-term returns of the underlying index.

For example, take a double-leveraged fund with a net asset value of $100. It tracks an index that starts at 100 and that goes up 5% one day and then falls 10% the next day. Over that two-day period, the index falls 5.5% (climbing to 105, and then falling to 94.5). While an investor might expect the fund to fall by twice as much, or 11%, over that two-day period, it actually falls further -- 12%.

Here's why: On the first day, doubling the index's 5% gain pushes the fund's NAV to $110. Then, the next day, when the index falls 10%, the fund NAV drops 20%, to $88.

The effect of compounding results in greater distortions when there are big up and down swings in the market. That's the reason the real-estate index and its double-inverse ETF were both down over the course of last year.

For the most part, these funds are used by short-term traders. But they're gaining traction among individual investors who use them as a hedge in a portfolio. That's where these distortions cause real trouble.

Take an investor who on Oct. 10 wanted to offset a $100,000 investment in an S&P 500 index fund by putting $50,000 in the UltraShort S&P500 ProShares. Two months later, despite big back and forth swings, the S&P 500 was pretty much unchanged. But that ETF was actually down 24% in that time frame, leaving the investor with a $12,000 loss.

To ProShares' credit, warnings about the disparity between daily and long-term returns are spelled out in the materials for the funds and on the firm's Web site.

"We try to get the concept out to people," says Michael Sapir, chief executive of ProShares. "It's just a feature of this kind of investing."

—Please send comments and questions to Mr. Lauricella at tom.lauricella@wsj.com.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123111094917552317.html


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Re: Stock Update for January 15, 2009 - SDS [Re: geokills]
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Re: Stock Update for August 8, 2011 - A Tradeable Low? [Re: scatmanrav]
    #15182226 - 10/05/11 04:44 PM (12 years, 3 months ago)

Here's a good link for dividend history.  Just change the ticker symbol for the stock or security to get the dividends.  You can use http://www.bigcharts.com to look at stock charts.  For closed end funds beware of too much return of capital and leverage which amplifies moves in both directions (up and down) depending on the market.

http://dividata.com/stock/GPC/dividend

http://dividata.com/stock/UTF/dividend

http://dividata.com/stock/FOF/dividend

http://dividata.com/stock/INB/dividend

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