Dividend stocks to look at this week has a few well known companies to pick from. AAPL comes to mind as well as WMT and MET. Three big house hold names. Here at the 10 minute trader we love the dividend capturing strategy (buy before the EX-date, sell after date of record) because it allows us to capture 10-20 checks per month like clock work. With the invention of the internet and some crafty computer software. We have forged a somewhat unfair advantage over other dividend investors. By looking at historical performances of these three companies as well as many others. We can see how the Ex-date effects the stock price in the days before the actual dividend payout. By knowing this information ahead of time we can have a good idea that the stock may perform in a similar fashion. That puts us in a good position to make some good dividend plays.
With AAPL moving up to the big board of the NYSE, the current stock split and of course the $100 per share mark looming upon us, let's not forget the upcoming dividend payout that's right around the corner. One could consider this trade, this week.... as a no brainer. Let's put it all into place for a bit. The move to the big "NYSE" board... big news. 7-1 stock split... Big news and Apple stock being below $100... big "BUY ME" signal. One last point to make my case. The stock price trend has been steadily on the uprise. The dividend payout from AAPL may not be a huge attraction, but we all know investors love grabbing some dividend checks. If you are looking to increase your cash flow with a safe trading strategy then don't over look the dividend capturing game. This strategy has after all been around for over 400 years and it is still used today. Be careful though when you look at dividend stocks, they are not all going to perform the same way under this dividend play and they are not all created equal.

Dividend Capturing at its best, WalMart is on the horizon for this strategy this week. AAPL, MET and a few other well known companies are going to be paying out dividends in the next week or two. Dividend Capturing is an easy strategy and making money safely is what we like to do here. Every week we send out a list of well known companies getting ready to share their profits with their investor. Part of being a shareholder is that you get to collect some of the companies profits every so often. So why not get an email every week to let you know who is getting ready to pay out some dividends... you too can get your 10-20 checks per month too. 

The last week of July is upon us, if you want to collect some dividend checks before the month is over then you have a few good companies to look at this upcoming week. There are over 60 companies getting ready to payout dividends in the next 2 weeks, which few are the right stocks to look at?  SKT, F, C, HCP, BHI, PHM to name a few and plenty more too. Who is going to be on the top of your list? Why are they going to be there? What is going to be your driving force to pick n choose one over the other?

As for me and my students, we like to look at past performance. How well did these companies do over the last few years when it came to dividends and paying out increased dividends every year. 25-50 years of continuous dividend increases is what is going to be the driving force for me when it comes to choosing a winner. There is a small handful of companies that have paid out increased dividend payments every year for 50. Yes 50 years, only 17 to be exact. The Dividend Kings is the name of this prestigious group. The Dividend Aristocrats is a small group of companies that have continuously increase payments for a minimum of 25 years. As for me... that is a good bet. I know for sure, if the stock price goes down... my dividend checks are going to increase., every year. But that is not my strategy, that is my constellation prize. I'm just after that small amount of increase that happens just before the Ex-date. That is another indication of which company to purchase. How often do they increase just before the ex-date, and how much. That my friends is what is keeping my investments in a good light, it's easy and almost foolproof.    

Dividend stocks have been have been sharing profits with investors for over 400 years. It may be difficult for some to comprehend but it is true. The stock market as we know it today has been around since 1602, the first stock offered to investors was the VOC. The VOC was better known as The Dutch East India Shipping Company. The VOC ruled the seas for 198 years before succumbing to corruption and mismanagement. How the VOC did set precedence with paying out dividends to its investors and many companies followed suit.

Yes the first stock available to the public was dividend paying stocks and ever since then the investing public has loved receiving their fair share of profits. This week we are looking at 5 companies that have been increasing their dividend pay outs every year for over 25 years.

Companies like CL, CLX, VSEC, ACE, RY and a few more make this list for this week. Come check out our weekly list and see what stocks you should be looking at.

How do you choose your dividend stocks for your portfolio? It's different for everyone, everyone has different goals when it comes to their money. It would make sense that everyone has a different method in choosing stocks too. You could stick to just the Dividend Kings ,  Dividend Aristocrats or even the Dividend Champions... all of whom have increased their dividend payouts for at least 25 years in a row. every year giving out more money to their shareholders. Of course there are hundreds of more companies to choose from than just these guys. As for today for example there are 85 companies paying out dividends and choosing the right one can be a daunting task. There is the technical analysis approach where you stare at the computer screen looking for a signal from the charts. There is also statistical analysis by going through mountains of data and trying to find some common ground linking all the years together and then there is the fundamentals. looking into the companies quarterly reports and earnings and future projections. All three of these have their pros and cons. As for me I like to use computer software to help me pick. You can see some of my past results here. 

How do you pick your dividend stocks? This has been a question every investor comes across when stating out. What are your goals when it comes to investing? Why are you investing in the first place? What are your ultimate goals for all your efforts?

Picking your investments can be mind racking at times. How do you choose? In my experience, it always come back to ROI... "Return On Investment" with limited risk or how about no risk at all. I know there is no such thing as no risk at all... but in my experience. I have to say that if certain companies go under then it is going to be a bad situation no matter where your money is. What I mean t say is... if a 200 year old company that has billions of dollars of revenue and hundreds of house hold named products goes under then we are all up the creek. Ok with that said why not look at companies that have a track record of paying out dividends and increasing their payouts every year? Yes I'm talking about the Dividend Kings and the Dividend Aristocrats. These companies are top of the line when it comes to sharing parts of their profits and why shouldn't we all

Are you searching for great dividend stocks to invest in? What is the criteria you are looking for? As we here like to catalog our dividend stock investments into list's. The Dividend Kings are companies that have been paying out dividends and increasing their pay-outs for a minimum of 50 years. Most of these companies are over 100 years old and have a very good track record. The Dividend Aristocrats are companies that have increased their pay-outs to their investors for over 25 year, with some very stringent qualifications to make this this. The Dividend Champions are a list of over 100 companies that have increased their pay-outs to investors for a minimum of 25 years. The requirements to make this list is not as strict as the Aristocrats but still... 25 years is a great place to start looking for you investment needs.

Investing in dividend stocks for monthly cash is nothing new. Savvy investors and the super rich have been doing this for generations and passing down this trading strategy to their heirs to make life easier for themselves. There is a misconception that you need hundreds of thousands of dollars to even start thinking about doing this for yourself. Well I'm here to say that you don't need as much as you may think to get started. Granted the more you have to start with the more your monthly checks will be. But I don't want you to get scared off thinking you can start small and work your way up to something big enough to make a real difference in your life. There are over 3300 profitable companies this year paying dividends to their investors and believe it or not the price per share on these are as low as $.86 per share. Now share price has very little to do with how much money you can make. The yield that the stock gives you or the return on investment is what is going to make you your money. Remember to balance the potential profit along with the cost of doing business or better known as cost per trade or commission. The cheapest commissions out there so far that I have found is $2.50 per trade. So by the time you buy and the time you buy and sell your positions, you better make sure you made enough money to cover those cost and still made some profits. 

3400 Companies this year are profitable and ready to write some dividend checks to their share holders. How are you positioning yourself to get some of these dividend checks. 3400 companies all writing checks once per quarter.... that makes 13600 times their accountants sit down and put pen to checkbook so to speak. I'm not sure about you but that is a lot of checks and We here are always looking forward to getting some, as many as we can.

How are we doing that exactly? There is an old trading strategy called "Dividend Capturing" where you buy the stock just before the ex-date then sell for small profit just after date of record. I know you are probably thinking ... how do I find the right companies to invest in. Well after years of investing we came up with some proprietary trading software just for finding the right stocks at the right time doing exactly what we want them to do.