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Strategies & Market Trends : Dividend investing for retirement -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chowder who wrote (3094)	12/22/2009 6:21:37 PM
From: JimisJim	Respond to of 34328

dabum, thanks for the detailed reply... hope to spend significant time over the holidays refining my research, work and plans wrt to the markets in general, sectors and allocations, and finally individual stocks appropriate to each PF's intent. Have had a great year and am at ATHs in combined PFs and would like to protect that capital going forward as well as generate increasing divvy-based returns/income and longer holding periods. My worst case scenario would be retirement in 10-11 years and best case in 4. May keep a small portion of my PFs as a trading allocation of maybe 5-10% of total combined PFs vs. about 33% currently -- not sure I can continue to generate the returns I've had trading for extended periods of time and it is quite time consuming also -- don't want to think I'd have to spend 6 hours or more every day doing stock research in retirement just to meet financial desires -- would rather enjoy the fruits of current labor and have solid PFs throwing off steady cash stream and any trading would purely be as a hobby when/if I feel like it... so maybe reduce that allocation to 5% in retirement at most, I don't know. Appreciate, as always, your thoughts and strategies and the generosity you show in sharing these with us. Jim