panda0317 (< 20)

High(er) dividend yields

August 04, 2012 – Comments (7) | RELATED TICKERS: ARR

Being close to retirement, I am looking for high(er) yielding dividend stocks for my portfolio. My initial screening criteria is dividend yield above 9% and monthly payout. From there, I check the charts to see how the stocks have fared over 4 time periods; 21 days, 3 months, 21 weeks, and 1 year. I select stocks that are are uptrending, and when a stock begins to trend lower I trim positions. I'm no expert, but I think this might give me a good balance between the lower-paying dividend stocks which are the stalwarts of dividend investing which have a fairly low yield, but are "supposed" to be "good investments".   [more]