Coastwise Monthly Dividend Newsletter
Musings on financial matters that impact your wallet and your life.
The issues presented monthly in the Coastwise Dividend Newsletter can be nuanced and complex. While the objective of the newsletter is to provide information you can apply immediately and profitably, it should be noted that everyone’s circumstances are different – and there is no practical way we can cover all the aspects of a given topic without causing your inbox to explode. To learn more about some of the trading, hedging, income generation and other techniques discussed in the newsletter and applied daily here at Coastwise, please feel free to contact us directly for a one on one discussion.
April 22, 2019
How Much Can I Pay You To Do Nothing?
I can still remember my first market crash, and boy was it a doozy. October, 1987. I had been investing for a few years, learning the ropes, and as I headed back to my junior year in college that fall, there were rumblings in the ma...
February 27, 2019
For the last half decade plus, U.S. stocks have been just about the only game in town. While the DOW and other U.S. major indices rest near all-time highs, European stocks, for example, as represented by VGK, have seen little net upward movement since 2006 (with plenty...
January 22, 2019
The night before Christmas, as little ones around the world slept peacefully with thoughts of presents to open the next morning, I had a dream. With US stocks suffering their worst December since the Great Depression (the original one back in the 1930s, not version 2.0...
December 17, 2018
In the November issue of the Coastwise Dividend Newsletter I summarized the feelings many investors experience during typical market cycles (and often take actions against their long term financial interests based on said feelings). While it has been empirically proven...
November 16, 2018
The US Stock market has not experienced a full-fledged bear market (defined as a drop from peak to trough of 20%+) in nearly 10 years. It is not a matter of if, but when, such a drop will occur. That is not necessarily a bad thing – all asset prices move up and down in...
October 11, 2018
Financial pundits have been warning of the next market crash (being defined as a broad market decline of 20%+) since… shortly after the last one nearly 10 years ago. Even as with a stopped watch, eventually those calls for doom will become a reality, and all those tal...
August 29, 2018
In a recent newsletter, I made the analogy that you should visualize your investments like a grove of money trees, each producing fruit for you (in the form of dividends and/or options premium income) with the occasional storm bending, but not breaking the trees themse...
May 31, 2018
The great investors of the world have some common traits, including unusual levels of rationality and emotional fortitude. They not only don’t get rattled by news and events that send most investors running for the hills, they invariably take advantage of it (think of...
April 30, 2018
During challenging market conditions, it is easy to get caught up in headlines and daily noise. Sometimes it is helpful to take a step back and visualize your portfolio for what it is: a basket of cash generating – and often cash distributing – securities (stocks, bon...
February 28, 2018
We have provided regular statistics about the depth and duration of typical market declines. Here is an updated chart including the recent correction (defined as a peak to trough decline of 10% or more):
Facts are important, but often investors are driven not by hard c...