in today's video I'm gonna show you guys my dividend investing portfolio tell you
guys how I actually reached the six thousand dollar mark and I'm gonna also
go over how I take profits on a lot of my stocks as well so watch this video
till the end so I can show you guys how I earn extra income every single month
for my portfolio so for the Robin Hood challenge I'm obviously using Robin Hood
you guys can find that in the App Store or the Google Play Store and every
single week I deposit two hundred dollars into my portfolio I try to grow
it as big as I can I'm usually just investing in dividend stocks and I'm
also trying to take profits here and there with a few trades I'm not too much
of a trader I don't condone training actually but it is a skill that you can
learn to develop and that's what I've been trying to do over the past few
months so I'm not gonna try to make this too complicated I'm gonna try to stick
with the basics here this portfolio right now is worth six thousand forty
eight dollars and forty seven cents on the day I'm doing very well I'm up about
seventy-five dollars which is about 1.2 percent of my portfolio on the week it
hasn't been too good down about half a percentage on the month here I'm up four
percent on the three months chart I'm up 4.5 percent on the one year chart I am
almost up 20 percent and on the all-time chart here I'm just up ten percent and
that's because I messed up in the beginning of my stock trading career
trying to day trade some penny stocks and trying to swing trade some other
stocks as well that's a long story go check that out in my previous post I
talked about there but let's jump right into the portfolio here so my main goal
for the past few weeks is to just buy this one stock I'm trying to build up
equity in Realty income this company pays monthly dividends and it is a real
estate investment trust so if you ever wanted to invest in real estate but you
didn't have enough money to put a down payment on the house Realty income might
be a good substitute that you can invest in right now I have seven shares just
about almost $500 worth of equity in this company and total returns as you
can see is about seven dollars and seventy cents it's not too high dividend
yields is around four percent so that is a really sustainable
dividend yield and I've owned this company since October and I've been
slowly building my equity in the company slowly accumulating shares every single
month or try to at least and as you can see you know my dividends has been
increasing little by little more lately lately has been increasing a lot faster
because I have been buying a lot more shares so for my last dividends I
received 1,000 my last dividend I received about one dollar and thirteen
cents and right now I'm gonna be buying one more share of Realty income for
sixty nine dollars and sixty cents and it is that easy Robin Hood does not
charge you Robin Hood does not charge you any Commission's so all the trades
are free which is something that's really good for beginners so the one
reason why I like Robin Hood so much is because I can just buy one share at a
time without paying any commissions or I can sell one or two shares of some of my
stocks here and not pay any Commission's so in today's video I'm gonna show you
guys how I take profits on some of my stocks the stock market is right now
it's almost at another all-time high very bullish the market is very bullish
so for my strategy I'm investing in two dividend stocks and dividend stocks they
tend to pay out dividends every single quarter or every single month and that
is what I do all I do is just buy these companies and I collect the dividends
whenever they do payout a lot of the companies that I own are paying monthly
dividends just going down the line here just going down the list here this month
I probably collected around 36 to 40 dollars worth of dividends let me see
yeah closer to 36 dollars and next month I'll be collecting a lot more dividends
because I have like these bigger companies that are paying me out like
AT&T AT&T will be paying me out about $12.75 and AT&T is a really good stock
that pays a very high dividend and that is just one way that I make money from
my portfolio is to collect dividends the second way is from capital gains so as
you can see in the last three months my portfolio has gained in value four
percent in the last year my portfolio has gained over
20% or just around 20% and capital gains is the second way that I like to
generate value from my portfolio and the third way I would say it might be the
most difficult way to generate value for my portfolio and that is to collect
profits the basic strategy here is to buy low
and sell high that is something that is a lot easier said than done it's a lot
easier said than done you might have heard that term or phrase many times
when it comes to investing in the stock market so let me show you some examples
of how I collect profits on some of my stocks that I've been buying I've been
buying stocks since September of 2018 that is when I started this Robin Hood
challenge and only recently am i taking profits because typically I'm more of a
buy and hold investor but this is something that I've been trying to learn
and trying to do and I'm just sharing this with you so in the past week I've
been doing a lot of selling because the stock market is just I believe it might
be overvalued some of my stocks might be overvalued for instance like today I
sold two shares of coca-cola yesterday I sold one share of Starbucks agency one
of the biggest Holdings I have in my portfolio I sold five shares also
yesterday and and again last week on July 15th
I sold 10 shares of agency I've just been taking profits as these stocks keep
going up in value and let me show you how I actually do that like I said this
is a lot easier said than done one month ago around June 27th I'm not exactly
sure on the date but I bought 25 shares of a GNC so on May 30th 2019 which was
about two months ago I bought 25 shares of agency for $16 and 36 cents I thought
that this was a big dip and only recently in the past week I've been
taking profits so every single time right now so every single share that I
sell up a GNC I'm making $1 and for every share that I'm holding for over a
month I'll be collecting dividends on that
as well so you can see how all of these profits will just add up little by
little so specifically for a GNC I have 100 shares as my core value and during
the dips I would buy more than 100 shares and that is what I try to trade
with and so right now I still have 10 shares to trade with if the price just
keeps going up I'll just be taking more profits as the price keeps going up and
if I find out that it's very undervalued I'll just keep buying on the dip and
wait for it to turn around again and sell when it goes up buying low selling
high like I hate saying it because it is a lot more difficult than it seems
I use another app called think or swim let me show you guys what it looks like
think or swim is another trading app I think they are connected with TD
Ameritrade so you guys can even trade stocks on this app if you want to but I
only use thinkorswim just for their graphing tools that I use to figure out
when I want to sell and when I want to buy certain stocks so so you guys know
I'm really cheap thinkorswim is free to use so go down so go download it and go
check it out I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure you guys will find some value in it
let's take a quick look at my thinkorswim platform here so this is the
watch list all these socks on the watchlist are from the Robin Hood app
and some other ones that I've been taking a look at so let's go take a look
at agency investments so as you can see here things look a lot different than
Robin Hood you can see a lot more information and the graph is just a lot
crazier a lot more detail and here we go on the top chart here is very similar to
Robin Hood all it does is just tell you the price action and tells you the price
of a GNC and on the bottom here is the RSI this is an indicator that tells you
basically when the stock is overvalued and when the stock is undervalued so
taking a look at the graph here when a stock is oversold that is generally when
I'm looking to buy and when a stock is overbought that is when I'm looking to
take profits this is not gonna be perfect every single time this just
gives you a general idea of you know how the price action is working so again
without trying to get too complicated on the RSI graph anything over 70 points is
over box and anything below 30 points is oversold around May 31st around the time
when I bought the dip or what I believed was a dip as we can see here May 31st
the RSI said that it was under 30 which was around 20 points and that's when I
bought and then on the 22nd around this time the Rs I was just above 70 so
that's where I decided to take profits you guys can use this indicator yourself
it is free for everybody to use and you guys can track all of your stocks with
it and you guys can scroll through all of your stocks to see if they're
overbought or oversold and you know come up with your own strategy on how to use
the RSI indicator just say just a disclosure I'm not a professional trader
here I don't know all the answers you know I'm learning a lot of this as you
guys are learning a lot of this whatever information that I find helped me make
some money I'm gonna share that with you so RSI indicator it's a great tool that
a lot of traders use so go check it out learn more about it and you can
potentially make some money with it as well so for my last example here with
the thinkorswim platform I'm gonna be taking a look at coca-cola I sold one or
two shares of coca-cola today and let's take a look at the RSI here so the RSI
was saying that coca-cola is at seventy two point six eight points and that's
why I decided to sell coke today just to take some profits and if we look here on
the price chart coca-cola has seen like such a crazy run over the past year from
lows of 44 dollars to a high of 54 dollars you know it's it's almost a
no-brainer that I had to just take some profits off the top
I still have a big position when it comes to coca-cola when it comes to
Robert had portfolio I'm still I still have a shares which is around 500 just
under $500 worth of equity so those are the three ways that I generate extra
income with my portfolio right now I'm not just buying and holding I'm doing a
lot more I'm collecting dividends that's the first way I'm getting the
appreciation when it comes to my stocks so generally the S&P 500 this is an ETF
showing the sp500 index it goes up around 6 7% every single year on average
so if you just hold on if you just do buy and hold you guys will you know be
already in a good position to make money just from capital gains the third way
that I'm trying to generate income the key word here is trying is collecting
profits taking profits when my stocks are I feel that they're overvalued I use
the thinkorswim platform and the RSI indicator to back up some of my
strategies and some of my theories when it comes to valuing some of these stocks
as well so if you are interested in anything I talked about in today's video
links are in the description so you guys can go check that out there check out
these videos here if you want more content from me some videos about my
investing strategy personal finance real estate I'm into all of that that's what
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