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

To: stock bull who wrote (5581)	8/28/2010 4:41:27 PM
From: Paul Senior	Respond to of 34328

I assume everybody who comes into dividend investing has tried timing the dividend. Seems to be one of the first things people consider. Just so obvious it might/could/should work, and so simple to do too. Tricky though as you say. As a practice, I found it (buying, and selling soon thereafter) doesn't work. Which I assume the majority of people attempting it also conclude similar. Once in a while I'll time the buy close to dividend date just for tax considerations -- do I want to buy ex-dividend at a lower price, or take the dividend and have my cost basis for the stock a bit higher.