Money and Finance
And another one bites the dust! Seriously, was July shorter this year by about 10 days? It was a pretty quiet month for dividends as well as new additions to the FI Portfolio. I only started small positions in Realty Income and General Electric but other than that it was selling off shares of Halliburton, which I purchase through the ESPP program offered at work. I've been selling off some shares to try and diversify away from my employer and also use those proceeds to help with the down-payment for our potential house purchase. We actually have an offer in right now so we'll see what happens.
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- Recent Sell
Nothing major to report but I do like to give a full update on any changes made to my portfolio. Yesterday I closed my position in Halliburton (HAL). Halliburton isn't exactly a dividend growth stock, although they have increased it the last few...
- Recent Sells
Well I've been active this past week in trying to unload some shares of Halliburton (HAL) which is my employer. I purchased the shares through the employee stock purchase plan and I believe that if one is offered at your employer and you get a sizable...
- Recent Options Transactions
On Tuesday, April 9th I sold 2 more call options on some of my shares of HAL. If you remember from my previous post, I'm going to start a new strategy in regards to my HAL shares. They are my employer and I acquire the shares through the ESPP...
- Recent Transaction
Yesterday I sold another call option on some of my shares of HAL, my ESPP shares. I'm currently way overweight my employer's stock. I have just over 184 shares from the first purchase that went through that has already reached LTCG treatment...
- July Dividend Update
It's been a pretty quiet month for me here in July, not a lot of purchases and no real dividend raises to speak of. My latest purchase was KMI a couple of weeks ago and I sure wish I would have waited to buy. You know what they say about hindsight...
Money and Finance
Dividend Update - July 2013
And another one bites the dust! Seriously, was July shorter this year by about 10 days? It was a pretty quiet month for dividends as well as new additions to the FI Portfolio. I only started small positions in Realty Income and General Electric but other than that it was selling off shares of Halliburton, which I purchase through the ESPP program offered at work. I've been selling off some shares to try and diversify away from my employer and also use those proceeds to help with the down-payment for our potential house purchase. We actually have an offer in right now so we'll see what happens.
Read more »
- Recent Sell
Nothing major to report but I do like to give a full update on any changes made to my portfolio. Yesterday I closed my position in Halliburton (HAL). Halliburton isn't exactly a dividend growth stock, although they have increased it the last few...
- Recent Sells
Well I've been active this past week in trying to unload some shares of Halliburton (HAL) which is my employer. I purchased the shares through the employee stock purchase plan and I believe that if one is offered at your employer and you get a sizable...
- Recent Options Transactions
On Tuesday, April 9th I sold 2 more call options on some of my shares of HAL. If you remember from my previous post, I'm going to start a new strategy in regards to my HAL shares. They are my employer and I acquire the shares through the ESPP...
- Recent Transaction
Yesterday I sold another call option on some of my shares of HAL, my ESPP shares. I'm currently way overweight my employer's stock. I have just over 184 shares from the first purchase that went through that has already reached LTCG treatment...
- July Dividend Update
It's been a pretty quiet month for me here in July, not a lot of purchases and no real dividend raises to speak of. My latest purchase was KMI a couple of weeks ago and I sure wish I would have waited to buy. You know what they say about hindsight...