October 2017 Dividends and Passive Income Progress

October was pretty active trading month for me. Considering the fact we went to 7 days cruise we won in June. By the way do you know what if you own 100 shares of Carnival (CCL), everytime you go on a cruise you can request $100 ship credit? I wish I bought more shares when CCL was trading lower. I am getting really addicted to cruises! :) I am trying to plan another cruise. This time as a gift for my daughter in hope she will fall in love with cruising as much as I am now! :)


But how can you not enjoy this beautiful beach??? This was Progreso Yucatan stop for our cruise ship. This is just an inspiration why I need to keep investing into financial freedom! :) 

 In October I sold 135 shares of CNP in my IRA account. I still have some shares but I earned what I wanted to earn for now.
I bought 100 shares of OHI at $27.50 and 22 shares of TUP at $58.02 in my IRA account.

In my regular brokerage account I bought
16 shares of KHC at $76.73 , 9 shares of SPG at $164.51 and 40 shares of T at $35.48

I really want to switch to "Rule#1" Phil Town strategy when you sell stock whenever you earn more than 35%. I keep thinking to sell, then I would not and then my stock would go down and I would regret. I know I have to consider if my stocks are in regular brokerage or IRA but if you see me trading more actively, it means I follow my plan!

Dividends receive October 2017

BNS	$16.65
BCE	$21.61
CHSP	$16.82
DEO	$69.50
FCPT	$3.80
FOX	$3.42
GE	$10.17
GPS	$1.63
GSK	$33.48
HRB	$13.82
KO	$20.51
KMB	$12.70
M	$11.89
NKE	$2.42
NEA	$6.04
PM	$12.89
STOR	$1.88
SOUTH	$8.05
UFS	$16.59
UNIT	$22.31
VER	$35.09
Total	$341.27

Which is almost 30% increase comparing to October 2016. I am really impressed.

Here 2014/2015/2016 vs 2017:

2014
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
2015
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
2016
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	122.31	422.44
								Year to date			$2,936.21
2017
Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
$220.12	128.03	559.54	303.15	128.18	425.21	275.71	227.19	476.30	341.27
								Year to date			$3,084.70

 I am now in $3k zone for the year and still have two months to go. I don't expect much from November but December should add up. It means this year I will be finishing close to $4k.

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.

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.