Importance of the Current and Historical Stock Prices

Send us Fan Mail In 2000, after an investment advisor lost $300,000 of my life savings in a mutual fund, I set out to find a safer, better way to invest the money that remained. The solution was to first become a self-directed investor. Next, it was to build a portfolio of the 20 best, financially strong companies that paid dividends of 6% or more. There are 628 stocks paying dividends of 6% or more on the NYSE and the NASDAQ, To help me select the best 20 companies out of the 14,500 stocks available in North America I built stock scoring software for myself. In this podcast we explore the first three of nine important information items that go into this score. The three we review today are the stock's current price, its historical price and the recommendations by stock analysts. I have lived very well off my dividend income for 16 years as I watched my portfolio more than triple despite my taking a good monthly income out of it. You too can achieve financial independence as self-directed investor. My quest is to help as many investors as I can to achieve this objective. For investment insights and warnings visit my website www.informus.ca. Ian Duncan MacDonald [email protected] Ian Duncan MacDonald Author and Commercial Risk Consultant, President of Informus Inc 2 Vista Humber Drive Toronto, Ontario Canada, M9P 3R7 Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994 [email protected]