Dividend Growth Investor

Best Investments for Rising Oil? High Dividend Energy Stocks

Cliff,

While I am a big fan of most pipeline MLPs, they won't necessarily earn higher profits if prices of oil and gas increase. They earn their money from transporting oil and gas. Very few of them have any exploration and production per se.

I do however like the stability in their distributions, as well as the distribution growth potential in some of the largest pipelines.

Best Regards,

Dividend Growth Investor

3 Must-Know Options Strategies for Dividend Investors

As usual, there is no free lunch. Both buyers and sellers of options have the same opportunity of profits as option pricing is limited by its Black Scholes model, which primarily looks at past market behaviour.
For a good reference on options, try reading anything by Nassim Taleb, the guy who buys options and makes money from it.

The High Dividend Stock Investor's Collapsing Dollar Survival Guide, Part 3

What happens if the dollar does not collapse, but all the other currencies depreciate against it? When the WHOLE WORLD quotes their currencies exclusively against the dollar, and any major central bank in developed or developing countries is happy to keep dollar reserves you are talking about collapse of the dollar. Has it ever occured to you that the dollar is a global currency, not a local currency?

What happens if the deflationary cycle keep on going? The portfolio needs some allocation to assets that would do ok in a deflationary environment.

The High Dividend Stock Investor's Collapsing Dollar Survival Guide, Part 1

Aren't you afraid that concentrating your portfolio mainly in high yielding sectors will hurt your portfolio in the long term? for exampl many investors seeking the highest yielding financials got burned when the dividends were cut. Isn't it better to obtain a balances approach between dividend growth and dividend yield?