Week 279 (Till Jul. 11, 2026)

 

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

YTD there are $1598.21 in dividends that came into the account

As planed I added to AMLP. 

Plan next week

I am going to add to AMLP next week again.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters. 

Week 278 (Till Jul 3, 2026)

 

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

YTD there are $1387.09 in dividends that came into the account

As planed I added to SPYI. 

Plan next week

I am going to add to AMLP next week.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters. 

Week 277 (Till June 27, 2026)

 

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

YTD there are $1387.09 in dividends that came into the account

As planed I added to QQQI. There is still room to add to QQQI.

Plan next week

I am going to add to SPYI again, to get the position close to 5%.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters. 

Week 276 (Till June 21, 2026)

 

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

YTD there are $1370.25 in dividends that came into the account

Since the last post, STWD, IYRI were bought. On top 2x$200 of QQQI, T, SCHD went into the account 

Plan next week

I am going to add to QQQI again, to get the position close to 5%.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters. 

Week 270 (Till May-10-2026)

 

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

YTD there are $1055.73 in dividends that came into the account

During the last 2 weeks, I didn't get a chance to invest. 

Plan next week

This week $400 are going into QQQI (planed amount for the last 2 weeks). This week and next week will $200 each go into STWD and IYRI.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.    

Week 268 (Till Apr-25-2026)

 

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

YTD there are $887.52 in dividends that came into the account

During last 2 week 400$ went into SPYI

Plan next week

This week $200 are going into QQQI.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.    

Week 266 (Till Apr-11-2026)

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

We are now in week 266. YTD there are $769.69 in dividends that came into the account

During the week I added $200 to META.

Plan next week

This week $200 are going into SPYI.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.    

Week 262 (Till Mar-15-2026)

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

In week 261 $76.88 and in week 262 $10.78 went into the account for dividends and interest.
I also added shares in QDVO, OBDC, BCX and ARCC to the account.

Plan next week

We are 2 weeks before the end of March, there are supposed to be only $200 left in the account  to be invested. I still have to catch up with investments. $500 into MO in $500 into LGI. Both are existing positions.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.    

Week 260 (till Feb-28-2026)

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

In week 259 $60.85 and in week 260 $50.45 went into the account for dividends and interest.
I also added shares in UNM, CAH, HASI, MAIN and O to the account.

Plan next week

I still have to catch up with investments. $500. each go into BCX, $200 in OBDC, $500 in QDVO.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.   

Week 258 (till Feb-14-2026)

 

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

This week $29.43 went into the account. YTD: $345.39

As planed money was invested in GPIQ.

Plan next week

I still have to catch up with investments. $500. each go into HASI and CAH. 

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.  

Week 257 - (till Feb-07-2026)

 

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

This week $77.35 went into the account. YTD: $238.91 (as of Jan 31)

As planed money was invested in SPYI, JEPQ, MFC, HASI, EXG.

Plan next week

I still have to catch up with investments. For this week GPIQ will get another 1k. 

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.  

Week 256 - (till Jan-30-2026)

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

This week $72.35 went into the account. YTD: $238.91

As planed money was invested in SPYI, JEPQ, MFC, HASI, EXG.

Plan next week

200$ each will go into the following tickers: AVGO, NXG.

400$ each will be added to MAIN, and a new position in O, which was already part of dividends of 1.0.

That leaves $5,800 to be invested till end of March. $4,200 can be used for accelerated entry. The regular weekly investment is still $200.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.       

Week 255 (till Jan-24-2026)

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

This week $33.20 went into the account.

As planed money was invested in BNS, STWD, GOOG and BCX.

Plan next week

200$ each will go into the following tickers: SPYI, JEPQ, MFC, HASI, EXG.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.      

Week 254 - This Time Really Back In the Game (till Jan-17-2026)

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

Life has it's ways.  I am still dealing with a few things. However, I plan to be more organized again.

This week $53.17 of dividends did make it into the account. 

I didn't manage to by anything this week. There are 10 weeks left till end of March. I have to catch up with investing a bit faster.
It is a bit hard, the markets are so high. However there are still companies and ETF's I like.

Plan next week

200$ each will go into the following tickers: BCX (new), BNS (1.0), STWD(1.0), GOOG(1.0)

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.      

Week 251 - Back in the game

History

I actually had a posting started  with the subject Week 250 - What a number.

And what a number it is. Granted, I did play catch up with the posts somebody when I started. (Read the beginning for 1.0, it is all outlined there). 

Review Dividend 2.0 Account 

Life has it's ways. I still have not invested all the cash I had moved over from dividend 1.0. 

Timing the market is not something I am interested in doing.  I did invest last week about 9k.

I added 13 weeks of  $200 to the account. That gets me the capital until the last week completly in March 2026.

I bought AMLP, BMY, FOF, FSK, QQQ, LGI, OBDC, PDI, RTX, SPYI, ICAP, TFC, VC. 

Dividend reinvesting is now enabled for all tickers. 
A few of the tickers are still paying dividends this year. Some of them, will already reinvest, others may still be cash only.

Since the start of 2.0 I am still a bit in the red for the account. As of today it is $190 down on the invested capital of 38k. 

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.     

Week 237 (till Sep. 20, 2025)

Review Dividend 1.0 Account

All positions in the Dividend 1.0 portfolio have been liquidated.  I am still working on the final write up.

I have left about $404 in the old account. There may still be one or 2 dividends showing up.  To not have to much cash sitting there and to also not have to much exposure in the account, I bought 5 shares of CSCO in that account. They will sit there and wait until the cows come home. Dividends will be re-invested starting January.

Review Dividend 2.0 Account

From account 1.0 $42,000 were moved into the account. I also topped up the account till December 28, 2025. That makes then total contributions of $45,600

So far interest payments of $118.35 for July and August have entered the account. Dividends of $101.19 have entered the account. The re-investment is still disabled. This will be enabled later this year. At the latest Jan 1st, 2026.

To re-iterate. This is not a portfolio to outperform the market. This to generate income. The target is 8% a year.

Starting next week there will be 14 weeks left in the year to hit Dec. 28, 2025. That would make $1,500.00 a week to invest all remaining cash.  As I did with Dividend 1.0, I did create more than 1 position in the beginning.  I will do the same thing here.

Account Guidelines

Dividend 1.0 had a 50 position limit, which at the end I ignored. I will remove the limit. No need to have a rule, that is not followed. 

The sources of inspiration will still be Steven Fiorillo posting in Seeking Alpha for  100$/week dividend portfolio and FerdiS from Divgro 2.0 and other articles I may find useful and convincing.

Dividends need to be re-invested at the latest Jan 1, 2026 (some may still escape, depends on ex-date and me enabling this.)

There will be no MLP's. (also in 1.0)

No position can be more than 5% of the portfolio ( also in 1.0)

Desired yield is 3% when position is established. However some tickers may deviate from that.

Account Guidelines

$500 into IBM, $500 into MAIN, $500 PDI, $500 SRE, $500 NXG

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research and/or consult a professional before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.     

Week 228 (till 2025-07-18)

Review

I am still in the process of slowly but surely liquidating the other account and transferring the money here.

Last week I added 1 new position and purchased put $1,000.00 into QQQI. It is another covered call ETF and looks to have better performance then the other ones I had.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.     

Week 227 (till 2025-07-11)

Review

All cash from the dividend portfolio will end up here over time. I need to make sure, I am not getting into wash sales.  The first proceeds have arrived in the new account.

The first 2 positions have been created. $1,000.00 went into CAH and 2 shares of Meta were purchased.

Disclaimer

I have been beneficially long with stocks all the items I discuss in the dividend investing. I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own views and opinions. I am not receiving any compensation for this. I have no business relation ship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.

I am not an investment advisor or professional. This article is my personal opinion and experience and is not meant to be a recommendation of the purchase or sale of a stock or option. Investors should conduct their own research before investing to see if the companies discussed in this article fit into their portfolio parameters.     

The Next Set Has Been Liquidated

Outline

This week I sold MAIN, META,  JHG.

The trades have settled and I move the proceeds into the new account.

So far all sales have been for profit.

The Process to Move to Dividend Portfolio 2.0 Started

Outline

I closed out the following positions today: 

CAH, AVGO, T, GILD, CI, UNM, SPY, CSCO, BMO, BTI, AMGN, NVDA, IWM.
Let's remember I closed the positions because I restructure my accounts. I picked those, because there will be no issues with the wash sale rule. 

When I looked at the details of the positions, I was surprised about UNM.
Since Aug-30-2021 I have a position in UNM. For the positions in 2021, they are all 200+% gain. 2021 dividend reinvestments have 100+% return. Only November 21 is 79% return. UNM is not one of the tickers widely talked about or that shows daily on CNBC.

Once the trades settle, the proceeds will be moved and after July 9, they will be re-invested, not necessarily into the same tickers. July 9th is close and Trump said, he is not extending the tariffs break.