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

To: Sergio H who wrote (10723)	1/10/2012 4:34:56 PM
From: Bocor	Respond to of 34328

MAIN will be a longer term holding for me unless facts change, although the old trader in me would like to take the gains I have and move on. My primary interest is the dividend reliability, which seems to be there, and I already have enough appreciation to be cushioned, along with a superb dividend. Frankly I would love to accumulate more shares at a lower price, not an appreciated price. As a plus, MAIN is a monthly payer, thus giving me the ability to capture more of the volatility that is ever present. Sort of the way I look at BIP as a longer term holding; then I think about how I could have sold BMO at $61 and bought back so much lower, but no one has a crystal ball, and the benefits of buying good companies and holding them has not changed in decades.