If you want to make 150k to 200k a year in pure dividends, you have to start buying companies that actually pay you to hold them.
Buy individual cash flow machines. Many of these names $Verizon(VZ.US), $Altria(MO.US), $Realty Income MD(O.US), $Pfizer(PFE.US), $SCHD, $JEPI, etc. pay 5 to 8% yields right now.Dollar Cost Average, Turn on DRIP, Dividends automatically buys more shares. Let the compounding do it's magic.天
Google replaces Verizon in the Dow Jones, an era ends
Before the market opens on June 29th, the Dow Jones will quietly replace one of its constituents: Verizon is out, Google is in. Why is it Verizon that gets replaced? This has to do with a counterintuitive rule of the Dow: it ranks its constituents not by company size, but by stock price. The higher the stock price, the more influence it has on the Dow's movement; a stock with a low price, no matter how big the company is or how much profit it makes, can only sit in the back. The value of a stock and its influence within the Dow are basically two different things. Nowadays, mainstream indices like the S&P and Nasdaq rely on market capitalization. They look at how much the entire company is worth...