October Passive Income Progress

In October I opened Loyal3 account. Read about my Loyal3 account here. 
Besides this I didn't purchase any new stocks in October.

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
May           $229.70
June          $368.21
July           $205.56
August       $254.16
September  $494.20

Dividends received in October 2015:

VER	30.94
AUY	$2.60
BNS	$13.39
BCE	$17.35
CHSP	$14.80
CSAL	$18.34
GSK	$35.37
KO	$17.14
NKE	$1.57
PM	$11.30
UFS	$14.67
WFM	$3.01
WIN	$3.96
Total	$184.44

If you check October 2014 below, you will see that my dividends doubled October 2015.

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	$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
									Year to date		$1,882.05

Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

Interest:                                            $9.57

Points AMEX                                  $22.07

Various gift cards rewards

(Victoria Secret, JC Penney, 

Palais Royal, Lowe's, Best Buy)     $15.00

My total financial passive income for the month of October was $231.18

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.

Opening Loyal3 account vs Extra mortgage payments

After reading other bloggers experience with Loyal3 for a while, I kept thinking about opening my own account but I was not sure if I have an extra income to invest.

Well, I was putting extra $300 toward my mortgage payments but since I have 3.5% interest rate I decided to start investing $200 into Loyal3 account.

At this point I believe it will be better for me to have cash invested in stocks, which I can pull out if I need to, especially if I pick dividend stocks. In a long run it is much easier to sell a stock than refinance a mortgage. Plus eventually I plan to turn my house into a rental property.

So far I bought 4 stocks, each $50 worth of investment - Frontier, Walmart, GAP and Store capital.

From now on I will keep track of my Loyal3 account here.

Thanks for reading.

September Passive Income Progress

Even if stock market doesn't make me so happy, this was my best month on dividend earnings so far! 

In September I was able to purchase RY (Royal Bank of Canada) and CHSP (Chesapeake Lodging Trust). 

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
May         $229.70
June        $368.21
July         $205.56
August    $254.16

Dividends received in September 2015:

BBL	83.08
CNP	$37.85
ESV	$4.53
F	$23.03
FTR	$28.49
HOG	$4.96
JNJ	$15.11
MAT	$31.88
MCD	$29.16
PEP	$15.54
PFE	$14.76
RIG	$6.05
RYAM	$1.19
RYN	$13.33
SE	$14.80
TGT	$11.27
UL	$16.68
WU	$9.65
Total	$361.36

If you look into September 2014 vs September 2015, I am very close to 100% increase and this is amazing! This year this is a second month when I get more than $300 in dividends. 

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	$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
									Year to date		$1,697.61

Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

Interest:                                            $9.66

Points Discover Card                     $61.94

Points AMEX                                  $21.24

Various gift cards rewards

(Victoria Secret, JC Penney, 

Palais Royal, Lowe's, Best Buy)     $40.00

My total financial passive income for the month of September was $494.20

At this moment my goal is to have $1k in monthly passive income from dividends and other financial institutions. This month I am almost 50% close to my goal!

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.

Project: Dividend Stocks for Teenager September update

I wrote how we started Dividend Stocks portfolio for my daughter before

Project-dividends-stocks-for-teenager Part 2

Project-dividends-stocks-for-teenager Part 1

Here is our first dividends month update.

In September her portfolio earned $49.81

EMR	$12.22
JNJ	$9.75
SE	$15.91
XOM	$11.68
interest	$0.25
Total	$49.81

Dividends were automatically reinvested.

Well, she does not pay close attention to her portfolio because we don't need to use this money yet and I guess it's good for now, since the market is not treating us very well at this moment.

I only mentioned to her that her stocks earned about $50 this month. 

This week purchase and watch list (9/23)

I purchased shares of RY (Royal Bank of Canada) today.

My watch list for tomorrow and Friday of this week:
EMR, WMT, RCII, CHSP, DEO, OHI

I might be able to rebalance my portfolio this week and this will give me some money to invest into new stocks.

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts.

My weekly stock list (9/13)

I am thinking to choose between OHI, DEO and RY.

It looks like Barnes and Noble (BKS) is trading at lowest too.

I am excited to see that my daughter's dividends portfolio Project: Dividend Stocks for Teenager already paid some dividends last week, but I will post update at the end of the month.

What stocks are on your watching list right now?

Please share and thanks for reading.

August Passive Income Progress

I just came back from Florida, helping my mom moving into her new condo, she just purchased. We were too busy packing and moving but of course we still had a chance for a nice walk on the beach.









As I mentioned before I was saving cash to help my mom with a purchase of her condo, but I still was able to purchase 30 shares of BNS in August.

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
May          $229.70
June        $368.21
July         $205.56

Dividends received in August 2015:

BMO	$15.37
DRI	$18.86
KMI	$32.78
NE	$11.51
PG	$16.84
T	$13.06
TD	$13.63
	$122.05

The amount is almost the same as in August 2014 but some different stocks

ARCP	$18.75
KMI	$27.52
PETS	$17.85
PG	$16.09
RYN	$25.54
T	$12.61
	$118.36

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	$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
									Year to date		$1,336.25

Additional passive income or free money from different financial institutions:

I earned an interest                                $17.41

points on my Amex card                         $42.11
points on my Discover card                     $3.41
Amazon card                                            $1.82
Kroger card                                              $5.00

JC Penney/Palais Royal                        $30.00 
Ebates - earn $$$ for shopping online   $32.36

My total financial passive income for the month of August was $254.16

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.