Investment Activity for the week of July 29 2019

I am a little behind on this one. I was planning to post this last week but got busy.
My investment activities for the week of July 29, 2019.
I had crazy week and purchased all my stocks last Friday. Well, if I waited until Monday I would get better pricing but it's ok.

Purchased:

CCL Carnival Corp. 27 shares - I finally have 100 shares and it means every time I am cruising with Carnival, I will get some room credit - $50 for cruises less than 7 days, $100 for 7 days and probably more for longer cruises. I didn't care about longer cruises yet because we don't go to longer cruises yet.

CC 20 shares

ARR 50 shares

VET 60 shares

TLRD 100 shares

This will give me $403 in yearly dividend income 

Sold: none.
I am planning to sell some losers to offset earnings and then rebuy them back later.

I am working on my watch list for current week but still work in progress.

Thanks for reading

July 2019 Dividends and Passive Income Progress

Hello guys,

It was pretty good month for me. Since I sold my rental property in June, I am still trying to decide if I would buy another rental/flip house or just slowly invest all my money into various dividends stocks.
Eventually I plan to turn my current house into a rental property and buy another one to live in, but time will show. We still have one rental house, which used to be my husband's house and I am the one, who manages this house. Plus we still have an apartment overseas, which my dad is trying to rent out while I am in process of all paperwork for sale one day... It's just a long and messy process...

I feel kind of tired of real estate activities and renters, so I might stick with more stocks and stock trading for now. My goal is to earn at least $1000 per month from trading, which would be equal to that my rental income used to be. Additionally I am investing into more dividends stock right now, so it will help me to reach my initial goal of $1000 per month from passive income (dividends+interest).

Right now I am working part time and loving it, but I am thinking to go back to work full time. Mostly I plan to go work full time in order to help my mom because she doesn't have much income. My hope is that she will find some kind of job or settle down with some man and at least can share some expenses with him. Overwise I will have to start helping her pretty soon, since she is just spending money she earned before and not being very wise about that...

My total passive earnings for July $707.59, which include dividends income $361.18 and my bonus from opening Discover interest account and interest from Discover and Fidelity $346.41

My dividends paying stocks for this months were: BNS, BCE, CHSP, CMCSM, DIS, GE, GPS, GSK, HRB, KO, KMB, M, MO, NEA, NKE, O, PM, STOR, TUP, UNIT, VER

Here is my progress since 2014

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	222.69	399.92
								Year to date			$3,707.31
2018
Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
$272.26	325.35	509.01	409.24	389.59	453.98	383.92	443.15	499.32	475.27	390.12	440.08
								Year to date			$4,991.29
2019
Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
$545.92	463.49	497.44	400.51	466.82	507.12	707.59
								Year to date			$3,588.89

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.

Cruising almost for free!

I love cruising and I always try to get a good deal when we purchase cruise.
I heard how some people keep getting super low prices after they cruise for a while and finally it happened to me!
This week I finally got an awesome offer from Carnival.
I could get it even better but by the time I reacted prices went up a little.
I checked my promotional email from Carnival and they offered me $75 per person for 4 days cruise.
Well, when it turned out to be $125 per person, which is still pretty awesome, plus we got $100 room credit.
On top of this earlier this month my AMEX offered me $75 credit if I spend $350 at Carnival, which I did.
I am also going to use my mail for casino promotion, which is $50 toward casino playing.
So here is my math for almost free cruise
$381 - total with taxes for interior room for me and my daughter
+$111 - gratuities
-$100 room credit
-$75 AMEX offer
-$50 casino offer
$267 for two of us or $133 per person! for 4 days of fun and relaxation!

I hope these deals keep coming my way. Plus I should have 100 shares of Carnival next time I am cruising, which will give me a room credit every time I cruise. Here more info

Investment Activity the Week of July 15 2019

Hello Guys,
This week I didn't sell any stocks. I was thinking to sell some of my DEO positions but then changed my mind.
Bought
more of CCL - 22 shares. So far I have 73 shares my goal is to get 100, so I can use room credit when I am cruising with Carnival.
more of SPG - 5 shares
BGS - 52 shares
TCO - 38 shares
more of IGT - 38 shares

It will add $335 to my yearly dividend income.

I am getting free trades and this is why I can buy in small lots.

Also this week I used Discover saving account offer - $200 one time if you put $25,000 plus 2.05%
on your invested amount. I like that I still can move money around if I needed and 2% is not so bad while I am looking for another ways to invest.

How was your week?

Next week I will be cruising on my almost free Carnival cruise but I still will try to keep up with stocks whenever I can.

Investment Activity the week of July 8 2019

I have promotional credits for stock fees and most of my transaction fees are free.

SOLD
16 shares of MCD to reduce my total of MCD in my portfolio
53 shares of RCII to collect that I invested before

BOUGHT
100 shares IGT
70 shares PETS
40 shares PEB
52 shares CC
24 shares BMY
30 shares CCL

It will add $402 to my yearly dividend income. 

Happy trading!

I am back to my blog

I was not very active for a loong time... I was studying for my CPA test and I finally passed it!
I still was investing into dividends stocks but not as much as I wanted.
I recently sold my rental property and until I found a better investment I plan to put money into dividends stocks as well. We will see how it will go!
I entered into Fidelity and Etrade promotions for free trading and I plan to trade much more than I used to, especially in last year or so.
I will start updating my blog more often and on regular basis.

February 2018 Dividends and Passive Income Progress

In February I finally made several purchases.

20 shares of BUD at $105.09 per share
33 shares of FDP at $45 per share
40 shares of O at $49.09 per share
17 shares of KHC at $71.76 per share ( doesn't look like a good price right now)


Dividends received February 2018

AAPL	$8.37
BMO	$20.25
BMY	$10.36
GIS	$22.36
KMI	$9.13
NEA	$6.15
PG	$18.99
RY	$14.38
T	$35.79
TD	$18.73
OHI	$66.00
SKT	$18.06
SPG	$17.76
VOD	$43.30
VZ	$15.72
Total	$325.35

This is 254% increase comparing to February 2017! Yes, 254%! increase! This increase mostly
 happened due to purchase of REIT stocks.


Here previous years vs 2018:

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	222.69	399.92
								Year to date			$3,707.31
2018
Jan	Feb	March	Apr	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
$272.26	325.35
								Year to date			$597.61

Thanks for reading and please share your thoughts and progress.