Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of February

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

First Energy	FE	2/3/2016	4.49%
First Niagara Financial	FNFG	2/3/2016	3.36%
Genie Energy Ltd	GNE	2/3/2016	2.87%
Idacorp	IDA	2/3/2016	3.05%
Intel Corp	INTC	2/3/2016	3.47%
MetLife	MET	2/3/2016	3.45%

MOCON Inc.	MOCO	2/3/2016	3.32%
Norfolk Southern	NSC	2/3/2016	3.43%
Oritani Financial Corp	ORIT	2/3/2016	4.29%
Pfizer	PFE	2/3/2016	3.91%
Sunoco LP	SUN	2/3/2016	9.13%
Teekay LNG Partners L.P.	TGP	2/3/2016	5.00%
United Financial Bancorp	UBNK	2/3/2016	4.24%
Wells Fargo	WFC	2/3/2016	3.11%
American Campus Commun.	ACC	2/4/2016	3.87%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fourth Week of January

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

Cal-Maine Foods	CALM	1/25/2015	6.3%
Ames National Corp.	ATLO	1/27/2015	3.2%
Brookfield Canada Office Prop	BOXC	1/27/2015	4.8%
ConAgra Foods	CAG	1/27/2015	2.3%
Full Circle Capital Corporation	FULL	1/27/2015	17.2%
Pentair Inc.	PNR	1/27/2015	2.6%
STAG Industrial, Inc.	STAG	1/27/2015	6.7%
Student Transportation Inc	STB	1/27/2015	15.2%
Aegon N.V.	AEK	1/28/2015	8.5%
Bank of Montreal	BMO	1/28/2015	5.7%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

What Airline Stocks are Benefiting from Lower Oil Prices?

Over the last 18 months, the price of WTI crude oil has dropped from over $100 a barrel to less than $30 a barrel. Although this price drop hurts the businesses involved in the petroleum industry, there are several businesses that can benefit from the huge reduction in the price of oil.

Petroleum is a major component of plastic, and plastic is used in numerous products, such diverse items as dishwashers, microwave ovens, computers, DVDs, pipes, toys, and automobiles. So the price drop of petroleum reduces the cost of materials for plastic manufacturers, which can increase their earnings and allows them to pass on cost savings to the product manufacturers. Then the end-product manufacturers benefit from the lower cost of plastic for their products.

Of course, airlines benefit from lower fuel prices (assuming they didn't hedge their fuel purchases too soon). Jet fuel is produced from oil, so when the price of oil drops, the price of jet fuel drops. Since fuel is the biggest expense for airlines, other than labor, the savings from fuel costs can be significant and provides greater earnings for the airlines.

Let's get back to hedging. In simple terms, airlines can lock in the price of future purchases of fuel. So if an airline hedges, and the price of fuel goes up, the airline gets to buy its fuel at that lower price that it locked in. But if the price of fuel drops after hedging, then too bad for the airline.

Unfortunately, many of the major airlines did hedge at much higher prices. Management of these airlines assumed that when oil was around $40 or $50 a barrel, it was time to hedge. Alas, their bottom fishing was wrong.

However, there are a couple airlines that made some right decisions.

American Airlines and US Airways merged a couple years ago to become American Airlines Group (AAL). At that time, management decided to follow in the footsteps of US Airways and eschew hedging. This turned out to be a superb decision, as oil has declined since that point in time, and American is taking advantage of the low prices. 

American trades at six times both trailing and forward earnings. For the latest reported quarter, earnings skyrocketed by almost 80% on a slight reduction in revenues. This growth in earnings has allowed the airline to acquire more fuel efficient jets, greatly reducing the  age of its fleet. 

The price to sales ratio is a very favorable 0.62, and the the price to earnings growth ratio is an extremely favorable 0.46. The stock pays a yield of 1.0%.

Another airline has an interesting twist on fuel savings. Delta Air Lines (DAL) purchased its own refinery a few years ago. Although it had a little bit of a rough start, it has saved the airline a substantial amount of money over the last couple years.

The trailing price to earnings ratio is 13 and the forward P/E ratio is 7. Earnings spiked 268% on flat revenues for the latest quarter. The yield is 1.2%.

Some of these airlines may help your portfolio take off. The airline stocks may suffer a bit of turbulence with the rest of the stock market, but hopefully they will move higher. For a free list of airline stocks, which include information about P/E ratios and yields, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com. 

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Is It Time to Buy Gold Stocks?

With the stock market tanking as it has since the beginning of this new year, investors are becoming scared. And when they are scared, they turn to a couple of areas. One is cash, and another is gold and other precious metals.

As a matter of fact, in the last thirty days, gold has increased by 2.14% and silver has jumped by 3.51%. Compare that to the S&P 500, which has dropped over 5% during that time frame.

So if investors want a gold play, they can either buy the metal, or they can invest in the gold mining companies. The advantage of the gold stocks over the metal are:
1. Dividend income from some companies
2. No storage fees
3. No worries about the stock being lost or stolen

If you want to buy gold stocks, you are better off going with the ones that do pay dividends. You get your capital returned faster, and can provide some stability to the shares. In addition, I always prefer companies that are debt free or have very little debt.

For example, DRDGOLD (DRD) is a South African miner which produces gold from surface tailings. The stock trades at 22.5 times earnings and pays a yield of 3.9%. However, the dividend is only paid annually. The company has $19 million in cash, and $2.6 million in debt.

If you are looking for a stock that pays a dividend more often, take a look at Gold Resource (GORO), which is a Colorado based company which owns gold and silver mines in Mexico. The stock has a trailing price to earnings ratio of 8 and a forward PE of 5. It has $14 million in cash and $1.2 million in debt. The yield is 1.5%, and investors have the advantage of dividends paid monthly.

For a free list of over 15 gold and silver mining stocks, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com. Hopefully, some income producing gold mining stocks can provide some luster to your portfolio.

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Everything You Need to Know About Bitcoin Based Binary Options Trading

In the year 2008, two major innovations entered the world and changed how we looked at finance. One of these was the binary options trading industry and the other was an online currency called bitcoin.

What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is simply a digital currency. There is no physical entity of bitcoin, but rather balances that exist on a public ledger that is encrypted with both private and public keys. Bitcoin was created as a way to facilitate online payments without using a centralized authority. The decentralized nature and the anonymity offered by bitcoins have made this form of currency quite popular.

What is Binary Options Trading?

Binary options trading involves a yes/no trading platform designed to have a payout of a fixed amount. Simply put, a trader in the binary options market will decide whether a certain asset will go up or down in price over a fixed amount of time.

Bitcoin Binary Options Trading

Some innovative brokers have sensed a new opportunity in the trading market and have come up with different ways to trade binary options using bitcoins. Essentially, there are two ways that bitcoins can be traded on the binary options market. The first way is to use bitcoins as the medium of exchange. The second way is to use bitcoins as the underlying asset.

To use bitcoins as a medium of exchange a trader will trade the various underlying assets of the financial market using bitcoins. For example, a person may trade the Euro/USD currency pair and call for it to rise or fall during the specified time frame. If the trade is successful instead of being paid in a standard currency such as the Euro or U.S. dollar they will be paid in bitcoins.

The other option for trading bitcoins is for it to be used as an underlying asset. Bitcoins are traded on specialized exchanges and just like the euro or the U.S. dollar the exchange rate for bitcoins goes up and down in accordance for the demand for them.

For example, in the year 2013 the Cyprus banking crisis led to many losing confidence in the Euro. This led to many investors switching their wealth from the Euro to Bitcoins. During this time the sudden demand for bitcoins pushed its value up so that it was almost equal to the price of gold. The volatility of bitcoins is what lead to many binary options brokers offering binary options contracts tied to the value of bitcoins. To put it simply, bitcoins can be traded just like any other type of underlying asset that is listed on a binary options brokers’ platform.

Why Use Bitcoins?

Many people may be wondering why they should consider being paid with bitcoins for their binary options trades. One of the biggest benefits of bitcoins is that the cost of the transaction will be lower than any other form of online payment. Another reason to consider bitcoin is because it allows you to earn extra bitcoins. Since bitcoins are traded and the value fluctuates based on demand, as a trader you can shield yourself from these fluctuations by earning more through the profits earned during your trading.

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Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Third Week of January

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

Western Asset Municipal Term	MTT	1/20/2015	4.2%
Tyco International	TYC	1/20/2015	2.5%
Williams Sonoma	WSM	1/22/2015	2.4%
Cal-Maine Foods	CALM	1/25/2015	6.3%
Ames National Corp.	ATLO	1/27/2015	3.2%
Brookfield Canada Office Prop	BOXC	1/27/2015	4.8%
ConAgra Foods	CAG	1/27/2015	2.3%
Full Circle Capital Corporation	FULL	1/27/2015	17.2%
Pentair Inc.	PNR	1/27/2015	2.6%
STAG Industrial, Inc.	STAG	1/27/2015	6.7%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Exclusive Interview with Ken Fisher, Billionaire Money Manager, about the Stock Market

The following fascinating interview was provided by Kenneth L. Fisher, head of the money management firm Fisher Investments, long time columnist for Forbes Magazine, billionaire, and author of numerous books. His latest book is Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently, which I highly recommend.

Ken Fisher

You may have seen him on TV commercials, or you may have spotted his magazine ads. If you are a reader of Forbes, you would definitely find his column. Fisher is on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans and Forbes world billionaires list. According to Investment Advisor magazine, he is one of the 30 most influential people in the investment advisory business over the last 30 years. Fisher is considered to be the largest wealth manager in the United States.

We cover a lot in this interview, including:

• Whether or not we are still in a bull market
• What it means to be a true contrarian
• What the professional forecasters are predicting for the stock market this year (and why they are probably wrong)
• Using the Leading Economics Index to predict the next few months
• The concept of "not in the next 30 months"
• Positive and negative "Elephants in the Room"
• Concerns about the future consequences of punishing good banks for bailing out bad banks
• Annuities, terrorism, climate change, debt, and much, much more.

Books by Ken Fisher

Here are some other books by Ken Fisher, which are worth checking out:

The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't
(A great companion to the Beat the Crowd book.)

The Ten Roads to Riches: The Ways the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)
(This is actually my favorite book of his, maybe because it is so different from all the other finance books. It basically tells you ten ways, with all the steps, to get really rich, including "marrying a billionaire." Lot's of insight and lots of humor.)

Markets Never Forget (But People Do): How Your Memory Is Costing You Money and Why This Time Isn't Different

The Little Book of Market Myths: How to Profit by Avoiding the Investing Mistakes Everyone Else Makes

Debunkery: Learn It, Do It, and Profit from It-Seeing Through Wall Street's Money-Killing Myths

How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud
(If you want to avoid getting ripped off, you really need to read this book.)

Other Books that Ken Fisher Recommends

In Chapter 8 of his Beat the Crowd book, he recommends several books for additional reading. Here are many of those books:

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Psychological Edge

Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen: The Unintended Consequences of Government Spending

How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy

Business Cycles

How to Lie with Statistics

A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

Growth and Welfare in the American Past: A New Economic History
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

Senseless Panic: How Washington Failed America

The Interview

You will certainly enjoy all this great information that Ken Fisher provides.

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All opinions are those of Ken Fisher, and do not represent the opinions of Stockerblog.com or the interviewer. Neither Stockerblog nor the interviewer nor the interviewee are rendering tax, legal, or investment advice in this interview.

5 Ways to Protect Yourself From a Stock Market Crash

Don't be the fish in a Bear Market

The first day of this year, 2016, the stock market tanked. As I write this on Wednesday, January 6, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 237 points.

If you are concerned about the stock market and you think we are heading into a bear market, there are certain ways to protect yourself on the downside.

Here is a list of five ways to trade which can provide some protection during a period of falling stocks.

Short Stocks 

1. You can short stocks. If you have never shorted a stock before, this is what happens in simple terms. You borrow stock, you sell the stock, and eventually you have to buy the stock back eventually to return the stock that was borrowed, hopefully at a much lower price. (You don't actually see all this happening; it all happens electronically.) The different between what you sale the stock for and the price you buy it back is your profit (or loss). Traders should be aware that this can be a very risky trade and the potential loss from selling short is infinite.

Buy Put Options 

2. You can buy put options to protect stocks that you currently own, or you can buy a put on a stock you believe is going to drop. A put is the right to sell a stock at a certain price within a set period of time.

Here is an example. A stock is trading at 50, you buy a put with a strike price of 49. The strike price is the price at which you can put the stock to someone. You pay 1 for the option. If the stock drops to 45, your one dollar option increases to at least 4 (the difference between the 49 and the 45). If the stock closes at 49 or higher, then the option expires worthless, so your loss is limited to the cost of the put.

Writing Covered Calls

3. Writing calls against your stocks is one way to help protect your portfolio on the downside. Maybe you don't want to sell out of you stock positions, but you want some way to help reduce the loss on the downside. You can write covered calls. There is the chance that your stock could get called away if the stock starts to rally, but it just means that you made money on the transaction.

An example would be if the stock sells at 50 and you write a call with a strike price of 51 for 1. If the stock remains at the same price at option expiration, you make 1 per share. If the stock goes up to 53, you will get called away at 51 making 1 on the stock plus you collect another 1 for the sold option, for a total profit of 2. If the stock drops to 47, you lose 3 on the stock but you make 1 on the sold call for a net loss on 2. Without the written call, your net loss would be 3 on the stock.

Bearish ETFs 

4. Bearish exchange traded funds, also known as Bearish ETFs are investments that have a goal of providing the daily inverse of a stock index. The bearish ETFs are very volatile investments that are designed for short term trading, and not as long term investments. They achieve their performance through the use of various financial instruments including futures contracts, options,  collars, swap agreements, short positions, and other derivatives.

Double and Triple Bearish ETFs 

5. Double and triple bearish ETFs can provide a 200% or 300% opposite return of a sector or market. Listed at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com are over a dozen commonly traded triple bearish ETFs which investors can use to get a 300% play.

An example is the Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bear 3X Shares ETF (SPXS). This ETF has the goal of making 300% of the inverse of the performance of the S&P 500. What that means is, if the S&P 500 drops 2% in one day, the ETF should go up in value by 6%. Alternatively, if the S&P 500 rises by 2%, the ETF should drop by 6%, which would be a significant loss.

Another one of the bear market protection tools is an ETF called the ProShares Trust UltraPro Short QQQ ETF (SQQQ). The goal of this fund is to replicate three times the inverse of the NASDAQ 100 index using various types of derivatives. An example of what that means is that if the stock market, in terms of the NASDAQ 100 drops by 1%, this ETF should rise by 3%.

This index includes such stocks at Amgen (AMGN), Apple (AAPL), Baidu (BIDU), Cisco (CSCO), eBay (EBAY), Facebook (FB), Google (GOOG), Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), Netflix (NFLX), Starbucks (SBUX), Tesla (TSLA), Whole Foods (WFM), and Yahoo (YHOO).

Investors can be more specific in terms of what sectors will drop, or will drop the most. If you think energy stocks will tank, you could buy the Daily Energy Bear 3X Shares ETF (ERY), which attempts to track 300% of the inverse of the Energy Select Sector Index. For financial services companies, an option is the Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares ETF (FAZ).

For those that are bearish on gold, a triple bearish gold ETF called the Daily Gold Miners Bear 3X Shares ETF (DUST) is available. The ETF's objective is to make 300% of the opposite of the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index.

For a free list of the most commonly traded triple bearish ETFs which can be downloaded, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Just remember that losses on the double and triple bearish can be substantial when the stock market rises.

One other option is to just ride out the market drops. Let's hope for a nice bull market for this year.

Disclosure: Author has various positions, including bullish, bearish, and neutral option positions, in DIS, AAPL, EBAY, YHOO, and TWTR.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of January

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

Potash Corp	POT	1/12/2015	8.6%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	1/13/2015	3.8%
Abbott Labs	ABT	1/13/2015	2.3%
Arlington Asset Investment	AIW	1/13/2015	8.4%
Ampco Pitts Corp	AP	1/13/2015	6.9%
Saul Centers  REIT	BFS	1/13/2015	3.2%
Buckle Inc.	BKE	1/13/2015	3.2%

BankUnited	BKU	1/13/2015	2.3%
Camden National Corp	CAC	1/13/2015	2.7%
Cracker Barrel	CBRL	1/13/2015	3.5%
Comtech Telecommunications	CMTL	1/13/2015	5.9%
Consolidated Communications	CNSL	1/13/2015	7.1%
Stone Harbor Emerging Market	EDI	1/13/2015	15.8%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free. 

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

How to Get Your Own Movie Theater for $100

Have you ever wanted to get into show business? How about owning your own movie theater? For only $100! And it's not a dump. As a matter of fact, it was recently updated to the tune of $200,000.

According to an article in Hollywood Reporter, the owner of a movie theater in Houlton, Maine called the Temple Theatre, will be giving away his two screen theater to the person who writes the best essay on why they should own the theater.

The essay should be about 250 words, and must be received by January 31. There is also an entry fee of $100.

So far, a couple hundred entries have been submitted, but the current owner is hoping for 3,500 submissions.

You can submit your entry to:
Temple Theatre
20 Market Square
Houlton, ME 04730