Portfolio Performance

Measuring your portfolio's performance is an important step of being a dividend growth investor. Our portfolios can be affected continuously by surges in the market, economic downturns, upturns, or even buying and selling if not done carefully. This causes the need to consistently take a look at your portfolio to bench mark the progress - a step missed a lot by the DGI community because of the thought that the dividend payments reign supreme and the portfolio as a whole can be ignored. It is important however to always be checking your portfolio to make sure that none of your assets are looking to strip you of more than your dividend payments could ever make up for.

The Importance of Watching

Watching the market can be a giant and a lot of the time stressful task. Investors who have been at the game for many years who have become dulled to the ups and downs of the market can even be tricked by it a few times even though they've seen it so many times before. For an untrained eye however, it becomes all that much more important to watch the fluctuations of the market almost daily.

I was having a chat with one of my buds over our weekly work outs and I found myself giving him a piece of advice that I shouldn't have. Being a new investor, he has been digging his heels in and absorbing as much information as possible from me and other trained sources. This means that he is even more susceptible to listening to all that I have to say since I have been in the market for a little over two years now and I've gotten a pretty