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4 Bullets To Savvy Dividends

OCTOBER 26, 2019. Dividends don’t flutter from fall skies like seasonal leaves. Dividends are paid out of cash flows, if there’s enough. Who has enough? It isn’t always those promising. No problem. Checking’s a piece of cake. We’ve got cake.
But paying isn’t the only issue. Dividends are paid by companies doing real business, in a rapidly changing environment. No one gets a free pass through macro chaos or the battle for market share. The fight for cash flow goes on everyday and everywhere. That includes “dividend aristocrats” like JNJ, with it’s’ 57 year history of consecutive dividend raises. How about an affordable, recession-proof, price-performing example, paying 4%? We’ve got that too.
Hoping to be paid regularly for the market risks you take isn’t rocket science. But it isn’t simply aristocratic standing either. Smart people get this one wrong, routinely. We’ve got the right, in “4 Bullets to Savvy Dividends.” Make sure you’ll be paid, top and bottom–and enjoy.

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BUSINESS, CULTURE, EDITOR'S DESK, EDITORIAL, FUNDAMENTALS, INVESTING, MARKETS/ECONOMY, STOCKS, TECHNICALS

Standing Tough. SJ Portfolio Now

FEBRUARY 3, 2019. Change often comes in a flash. Ask the man who brings pizza to our office. He sports shorts everyday. He came from southern California where snow is unknown and assures us “its’ all good.” That’s when we pay him 50% above pie price and discuss stock picks.
He’s one of the few and only the few who wear shorts year round. Shorts in the snow may be an individual thing, but for sure only the rare individuals own individual stocks when things get tough. That’s like shorts-wearing while strolling the snow around the building ledge. And only the few out of the last group make it pay.
STOCKjAW works around the clock to make it pay. We’re lucky that way and share it all with you joyously. It’s not a secret to sell, as far as we’re concerned. It’s spreading the joy. Stand tough now and you’ll get 50% above pie price. Our picks now.

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INVESTING, MARKETS/ECONOMY, STOCKS, TECHNICALS, THINKING NOW

Docking For Earnings. Verizon, Abiomed, Boeing, Amazon.

JANUARY 29, 2019. After the banks reported with strength we now move on to the loved, the growth, and a haven many use to talk. Amazon is the Death Star, and nothing will change their path of dominance, for now. Boeing has however done something we would never have expected. See what.
This very morning Verizon calls. We are hoping for something snappy and crisp. And on Thursday we hope and trust in Abiomed to enliven our hearts. Docking For Earnings right here. STOCKjAW.

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BUSINESS, CULTURE, EDITOR'S DESK, INVESTING, MONEY, STOCKS, TECHNICALS, THINKING NOW

The Better Than Bond. Payment In Dollars Not Pennies.

JANUARY 21, 2019. Night-dreaming your way through fixed-income brings results similar to automobile crumple zones. Yet mashed returns are common to market tourism particularly for bond fund buyers. Even Batman can’t make bond funds fly. So why try? Alternatives exist.
Popular culture historians will tell you that bond funds were birthed ugly deep below Gotham City. Who knew? Commissioner Gordon flatly refuses to hold bonds–in any form. When we cornered him one night at a Wayne Manor blast he claimed disgustedly to have actually “seen how they were made.” Well, maybe.
Either way, bond funds are in reality stock market vehicles riding on a comfy cushion of fees, and semi-mysterious low-paying paper promises. “Complexity” you say? Well–yes. Complexity leads to confusion and confusion often results in wreckage, except for the Fund Family. They live right next door to Bruce’s place.
Fund business was the foul reality that sent us out, along with the postal service, into the gloom of the Gotham night in search of an alternative. STOCKJAW shows you the goods–bond and bond fund alternatives. All pay more–much more. And with equal safety. See what we uncovered.

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Shock Wavin. Verizon And United Health Battle Concussion Waves.

DECEMBER 11, 2018. Poseidon ruled beneath the waves. It was much calmer below. Peace ruled but breathing came in gulps. Positive price-action is now much like a gulp, when there is any. We would settle for a slice of stability. Got any?
Markets are in correction pain mode and relentlessly technical. “Fundamentals” you say? Fundamentals are not driving. Vast swaths of stocks with good fundamentals now struggle beneath concussive waves of their descending moving averages. Little breathing occurs that far down. And what about fortress companies such as United Health and Verizon? Bulwarks both.
Yet keep the following in mind. On-going instability and down-trending volatility are this market’s rule. STOCKjAW snorkels the depths on two of our strongest survivors. Even these stars are in a very wavy way.

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Master-Blaster Powell’s Spam Hole Apocalypse. Our Fix.

NOVEMBER 5, 2018. Who knew? Well, most people. A single word or phrase from the federal reserve can move markets. Jerome Powell’s “over-shoot” comment threw markets backward. Throw in the escalating fear of a very real trade war and markets dive.
“Not to worry–it’s a common correction. It’s healthy.” We heard that. Does a 20% decline in portfolio worth sound healthy?
We know what you’re thinking. “It’s too late to reposition.” It’s only too late to adjust you positions if you want traditional defensive stocks–consumer packaged goods or utilities. Better plays exist. Besides, like us, you may want to look at your research habits as well. We did. Glimpse our four fix points for a far less “accommodating” environment.

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