Stocks I bought and sold

In last two weeks I sold my shares of

WU - Western Union - to collect earnings and reinvest (IRA account)

DRI - Darden Restaurant -to collect earnings and reinvest (IRA account)

I could wait a little longer on DRI but it's story of my life... When I sell, stocks go up, when I buy they go down... :)

RIG - Transocean - Regular Brokerage taxable account - to claim losses to offset earnings. I plan to buy back in a month, just to keep this position.

Stocks I bought 11/23/2016

12 shares of DEO - Diageo at $100.48 in my IRA Account

100 shares of NEA at $13.33 - Nuveen Tax Free Municipal Fund - in my Regular Brokerage account 

I saw this fund on My dividend Pipeline  and was watching this fund.

At this moment I am trying to low my passive income for one more year in order to be qualified for FAFSA and so this purchase was part of this plan.

I did some transactions in my LOyal3 account as well but I will make a different post.

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts.

October 2016 Dividends and Passive Income Progress

In October I only made purchases in my Loyal3 account. I wrote a post here. 
I didn't purchase any stocks because I could not decide what stock I want. 
Plus I am accumulating cash on my account in order to pay property taxes for rental and my house.

Dividends received October 2016:

VER	$32.99
BNS	$14.50
BCE	$18.73
CHSP	$15.75
CSAL	$20.43
DEO	40.62
FOX	3.08
HRB	12.22
FCPT	$3.64
GPS	$1.83
GSK	$29.71
KO	$18.76
KHC	$0.38
M	$3.06
NKE	$1.96
PM	$12.03
STOR	$0.67
RCII	$8.00
SOUHY	$1.23
UFS	$15.89
WFM	$3.18
WIN	$4.31
Total	$262.97

This is 42.5% increase comparing to October 2015

Here 2014/2015 vs 2016:

Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
$48.61	$12.44	$63.58	$90.04	$65.67	$126.98	$122.68	$118.36	$185.28	$93.18	$123.70	$263.68
								Year to date			$1,314.20
Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
$78.69	106.39	333.50	150.77	128.34	298.21	118.30	122.05	361.36	184.44	113.44	316.17
								Year to date			$2,311.66
Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
$183.80	104.48	445.07	240.49	104.10	327.53	213.41	113.56	396.05	262.97
								Year to date			$2,391.46

Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

Interest:                                                          $15.00

Points AMEX                                                    $4.38

Points Discover                                                $8.51
Promo gift cards                                             $45.00     

(Palais Royal/KOHLS/Best Buy)
My total financial passive income for the month of October was $335.86

At this moment my goal is to have $1k in monthly passive income from dividends and other financial institutions.      

I started tracking my passive income Summer 2014

June           $261.00

July            $209.67 

August       $235.62 

September  $212.97

October      $140.37

November  $207.05

December   $377.91

 2015 Passive Income

January      $167.44

February    $279.29

March         $397.80

April           $202.48

May            $229.70

June           $368.21

July            $205.56

August       $254.16

September $494.20

October      $231.18

November   $268.28

December   $458.46

2016 Passive Income

January     $298.49

February   $332.39

March       $500.67

April          $360.27

May           $249.71

June          $414.51

July           $278.08
August      $164.45  
September $441.78

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.

Project: Dividend Stocks for Teenager October Dividends update

I wrote how we started Dividend Stocks portfolio for my daughter and keep track of our progress here.

We didn't purchase any new stocks this month. I actually probably need to talk to my daughter and see if she wants to purchase another stock at this moment. 

LHO was the only stock, which paid dividends this month $19.81

Here is dividends month by month:

2015

jan

feb

mar

apr

may

june

july

aug

sep

oct

nov

dec

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

49.81

18.7

28.91

50.27

Total

147.69

jan

feb

mar

apr

may

june

july

aug

sep

oct

nov

dec

2016

18.73

41.03

52.35

19.11

42.47

53.88

19.46

43.03

69.24

19.81

Total

379.11

We are about to reach $400 next month in total and we should be very close to $500 by the end of the year, which is awesome passive income for 19 y.o. We automatically reinvest all her dividends.

She got another small scholarship from School of Business, so it means less stocks to sell from her portfolio. Our goal for her is to receive a Bachelor Degree without any loans. So far I am using 529 account to pay all differences after scholarships and FAFSA. 

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts.