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[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 1 points 1 month ago

Give it to me

[–] adj16@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

I like roboinvester accounts. You put money in, it automatically invests in stocks for you based on your current age and risk tolerance (which you can change whenever you like). I particularly like Wealthfront, and their app/website are really good. They’ll manage $10-15k for free, and then above that you pay a small fee out of your earnings for their service. If you use someone’s sign-up link, they’ll bump your managed amount by $5k. Comment back if you’re interested and I can share mine. Good luck with your investment, whatever you choose!

[–] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz -4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

High yield savings account at SoFi or Ally Bank will give you 4% right now.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

$10,000 at 4% gives you $400 interest in one year.

Just about any decent dividend stock will outperform that. Look at PET for example. It is sitting at $3.65/share right now and offers a quarterly dividend of $0.30. That puts you at $1.20/share per year. 10k = 2739 shares = $3,286.80 dividend payout in one year.

Banks are the worst place to put investments. Money in bank accounts are only supposed to be there if you need it liquid, like an emergency fund or your checking account.

*PETS

PETMED EXPRESS INC COM

For all the nay sayers downvoting me as if it is impossible to find dividend stocks that outperform their precious SPY or high yield savings rates, here is a great list I found with shit loads. I count 60 different stocks that offer 10% yields or more. 100 in total all offering over 8% -double what some bullshit 'high yield' savings offers.

https://www.tradingview.com/markets/stocks-usa/market-movers-high-dividend/

[–] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

Baby steps. Asking someone to go from nothing to investing in stocks is quite a leap.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Have you ever heard of the tbill?

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure. It is still a lower rate than going into dividend stocks.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 month ago

Tbill has zero principal risk and a higher yield...

Which dividend stock can offer this?

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much do you personally have invested in stocks like these?

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Little under 30k in higher risk dividend. Bring in about 800 a month.

I have a mix of large cap, small cap growth stocks, then dividend high risk and low risk. Stock like this (I do not own PETS, I was just using it as an example) would be a high risk due to its price instability. But you mitigate that with stop loss orders.

I have a vanguard/roth for my longs (large cap growths and stable dividends with DRIP) and then use etrade for the small cap or high risk ones. I like their tax documents and easy interface.

People make arguments against dividend stocks, I simply call it a different strategy. Some years it beats out my growths, some years it is about on par. Depends on where I have it at the time and slightly more market dependant.

I have recently gotten into ex-date chasing. While it has increased the returns, it is more work.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ive thought about doing that with my IRA, has the market negatively impacted your yields at all?

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When it is easy bull markets, I go heavy on growth stocks. When the market is bear, I go heavy on dividends. Right now though there is a high beta turmoil, so I have a mix of both. My IRA is also set up as more od a "leave this alone" investment. My etrade account has my "fuck around and find out" money. I mention this because it is hard to directly compare the two. So far my dividends have strongly out performed the growth stocks, but only in the last 3 months or so has the gap widened. I credit it to 2 specific ones that are getting me 30%-ish yields with stable prices. They are also new etf's, so the hedge money is still strong before the stripping gets to its prices. I mentioned in a post lower that that my little under 30k is netting me 800/month. Honestly it is paying a higher yield than renting out my condo is getting me.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for this, 30% is crazy to me. Which ETFs are these two if you don't mind me asking?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ex-date chasing

Don't they call that "stalking"?

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Also yes. The more professional name is 'dividend capture strategy'. More work, worth the pay off, do all you can to avoid commissions and fees.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haha I was making a joke about the terminology but I probably should actually do some reading about the topic

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It is also called 'dividend stripping'.

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[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Sofi isnt a bank.

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