Investment Essentials: Starting Your Portfolio

Now that you've gotten 90% done with the essentials, it's time to start thinking about starting your own portfolio. In order to start a portfolio, you will have to open a brokerage account with one of the many brokers that are available to you either at your bank, online, or at trading manager offices. The most popular however is the online brokerage because they are the least likely (in my opinion) to charge you various fees. They can also be best used through online management so you don't need to pay someone else to do any of your investing for you.

Sold: GAP Inc

I hate to sell any part of the Cookie Jar portfolio. I really, really do. Sometimes however, it has to be done. The name of the game is dividends and GPS recently announced their next dividend payment. Unfortunately, that new payment is the same as it has been for the last year. This means that they decided not to raise the dividend for the next year and therefore in my mind, it stops being a dividend growth stock.