Sell or not to Sell?

Okay, we all have stocks which are not doing well and stocks which are doing very well.

As I wrote before, for me it's always very hard to pull this trigger and sell my winner...

I know that lots of dividend stock investors think that we need to buy and keep stocks forever.

But observing my dividends stocks coming through ups and downs I still feel like I do need to sell my winners.

Like for example. I remember how just not long time ago my shares of KMI were $600 up and running strong. I was thinking to sell but got greedy.

Another recent example is FTR -  went down to $3 in 2014, then up to $8 in 2015 and then down to $3 and now it's up to $5 again.

I did sold some of my stocks but usually right after I sell they would go up and then I would feel like oh, yeah, I could just keep them.

So my boyfriend suggested me an interesting idea - to sell only part of my stock total, which equal to the gain and keep initial amount I invested. This way if stock would go down, I already got some earnings out, if stock would go up, I would not feel as bad as if I sold all of shares. 

I really like this idea and I might try to use it.

May Passive Income Progress

With my daughter's high school graduation I am a little late to report my May Passive Income Progress.

I started tracking my passive income summer 2014.

2014 Passive income
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

In May I sold shares of EXPE and PETS, bought more shares of CNP and added a new position in HOG.

Dividends received in May:

BMO	$16.05
DRI	$18.70
KMI	$31.76
NE	$11.28
PETS	$19.34
PG	$16.70
TD	$14.51
Total	$128.34

My dividend income 2014 vs 2015 so far:

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	$166.28	$93.18	$123.70	$263.68
									Year to date		$1,295.20
2015	Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
	$78.69	106.39	333.50	150.77	128.34
									Year to date		$820.49

Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

I earned an interest                                $23.40

points on my Amex card                        $15.40
points on my Discover card                    $14.60

I received a gift card from Palais Royal      

and Academy                                        $20.00  

Kroger card cash back                            $10.00
Ebates                                                   $19.49

My total financial passive income for the month of May was $229.70

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

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.