Book Review: Contrarian Investment Strategies + MORE

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge (2012) by David Dreman This book provides a great overview of the psychology of investing and how success can be achieved using a contrarian (value-oriented) approach. It is divided into five parts: Part I looks at bubbles, panics, and other stock market manias, drawing attention to their common characteristics and showing that they do not change much over time…

For your weekend reading pleasure, the articles listed below contain some of the best dividend and value investing insights found on the web. They were written by various members of the Dividend Investing and Value Network over the past week:

Articles From DIV-Net Members
Dividends4Life presented Dividend Income Progress Update – May 2013
Dividend Growth Investor presented Is the Dividend Craze Over?
The Dividend Guy presented American Capital Agency Corp – When The Dividend Yield is Bigger Than My Understanding of the Company
Disciplined Approach to Investing presented The Hindenburg Omen Is Triggered Again
Barel Karsan presented Clash of the Cultures
Dividend Growth Stocks Investing presented Dividend Growth Investing Stock Analysis Quick Reference Sheet
Passive Income Pursuit presented How long should you keep building cash?
FI Fighter presented 401k Contributions: Why I’m Stopping Mine
Hello Suckers presented Trade Adjustment – Armour Residential (ARR) option trade – put roll over
There are some really good articles here, please take time and read a few of them…

Looking to get more bang for your buck with stocks in the low price range? Their volatility can mean big percentage gains (or losses) for investors. With this in mind the stocks on this list are trading between $1-$10 with market caps above $90 million. We also looked for dividend yields north of 1%…

It was the Formula 1 weekend in Montreal. I went on Crescent and St-Laurent yesterday and it was fun despite the rain. I like those kind of festivities.You see this man with the orange jacket? I didn’t get his name, but I recorded a 15 minutes long video with my iPod of him. It going to take a while to download, but I am going to post it later…

Wow! How time flies by. I started this blog as a modest little spot on the world wide web just over two years ago as a way to document my journey to early retirement/financial independence on a middle class income. It’s grown far beyond my wildest dreams and the greatest benefit of running the blog has been the relationships I’ve developed with fellow bloggers and you readers…