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

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (4303)	4/1/2010 8:44:16 PM
From: chowder	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

>>> I will continue to advocate………dividends are nice, but loss of capital ain’t no fun at the end of the day. <<< Loss of capital is exactly what the long term buy and hold dividend investor needs, provided they are reinvesting dividends. It's the dips that add value to a long term strategy! It's capturing those lower prices/higher yields when it comes time to reinvest the dividends. Assuming nobody catches the exact bottom consistently, and markets go up and down, then one needs to learn to ignore the unrealized gains or losses ... especially unrealized losses as long as the companies they invest in continue to pay the dividend and increase it. It's part of the formula for "total return!"