Supercharge Your Dividends with Covered Calls

The following is a guest post from Gavin at Options Trading IQ. If you’d like to guest post on the Dividend Ninja, be sure to check out our Guest Posting Guidelines. Investing for dividends is one of the best strategies you can follow as a long term investor, and there is an abundance of fantastic advice here on The Dividend Ninja. In the never ending search for yield, is there more that we can be doing to increase our returns? Absolutely! Covered calls are a great tool to add to any dividend investors’ arsenal. What is an Option? An option is …

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Should You Invest In Dividend Stocks or ETFs?

Written by Teacher Man™, at My University Money. If you’d like to guest post on the Dividend Ninja, be sure to check out our Guest Posting Guidelines. Hello citizens of Dividend Nation.  My pen name is Teacher Man™ and I am co-owner of the blog My University Money.  I also write for several other personal finance blogs, and have recently decided to try my hand at this whole eBook thing.  Before I get into trying to convince an audience full of dividend believers that I believe I have a better approach, I should probably get one thing straight.  As long …

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It’s Only Castles Burning

The following is a guest post from Six Figure Investor. If you’d like to guest post on the Dividend Ninja, be sure to check out our Guest Posting Guidelines. In 1991, investor Seth Klarman, founder of the hedge fund Baupost Group, wrote a book on value investing, called Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor. There was one hard cover edition published, followed up by a paperback edition. Klarman quietly has been running his hedge fund since and he keeps a very low profile, even for clients who want to invest in his fund. Every few …

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Paying off Debt is the BEST Investment

The following is a guest post. If you’d like to guest post on the Dividend Ninja, be sure to check out our Guest Posting Guidelines. I firmly believe that paying off debt is the best investment with the greatest rate of return. For every dollar that you pay back in debt on top of your minimum payment, that’s less money you will give to your creditor. This does not mean I don’t believe in investing, but rather I want to take care of my priorities first. There are other reasons why I think eliminating your debt is a great investment. …

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