New Trade: Long eBay ($EBAY) & Short Yahoo ($YHOO) + MORE

Energy Transfer (ETE and ETP) MLP UpdateEnergy Transfer Equity L.P. (ETE) is at the top of a complex energy partnership structure involving Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), Regency Energy Partners (RGP), Southern Union assets, Sunoco Logistics Partners (SXL) and Sunoco retail assets.

-ETE Distribution Yield: 4.28%
-ETE Five Year Distribution Growth: 12…

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New Trade: Long eBay ($EBAY) & Short Yahoo ($YHOO)I’ll start off by saying that this morning I will be closing out 2 existing trades. I actually have 2 trades that have returns over 20% and 1 that is below -20%. I’ll be leaving Long TripAdvisor (TRIP)/Short Travelzoo (TZOO) open as I do still believe there is a lot of upside. The two trades I’m closing are:
Long Dice Holdings (DHX) & Short Monster Worldwide (MWW) +21,02%: This is a trade I’ve done over and over but in recent months, Monster’s prices have gotten much closer to what I believe to be its value…

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My weekend at the Montreal Casino

– myfirst50000.com

This weekend, I had purchased 4 lottery tickets for the 6/49 lottery. The price was over 50 millions… And something magical happens. I haven’t won all of those millions. But I win… $2. I had the very last number printed on one of my tickets… The extraordinary reside in this: only around 19 000 had won a 2 bucks…

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Dividend Stocks For The Long Haul

– dividends4life.com

When a company makes ongoing regular cash distributions, it sends a positive message about the fundamentals, performance and prospects of the business, and indicates that management is more concerned about returning value to shareholders than using excess cash to bolster executive pay. Stocks that consistently pay dividends tend to be less volatile than those that don’t…

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LBYM

– dividendmantra.com

LBYM

How big is your piggy bank?

This is now the second time I’ve written an article about a 4-letter acronym. (See: YOLO). But this one is really what personal finance boils down to. All the fluff and talk aside, if you can’t master LBYM you’ll likely never achieve financial freedom.

LBYM = Live Below Your Means…

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Readers of my April fools post chuckled at my spending addiction, where I mentioned how the tax man was preventing me from investing in stocks for almost two months. I recently opened an IRA, and allocated the funds equally in the following six dividend stocks:

Chevron Corporation (CVX), through its subsidiaries, engages in petroleum, chemicals, mining, power generation, and energy operations worldwide…

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After the best month of January on the stock market since 1997, all indexes continued to roll. February was a great month as well and March continued to push the stock market to higher levels.  But the market started to become a bit shakier in March and this continues in April. I didn’t look at the volatility index lately, but I feel that there are more emotions involved in trading lately…

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International Diversification May Be Closer than You ThinkWhen the U.S. dollar declines, investors think more about international diversification. This can be accomplished by many different means such as buying a foreign stock, buying an ADR of a foreign company or investing in an international fund. However, one method that is often overlooked is buying large U…

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