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'Autopilot' portfolio: 10 stocks for long-term investors

 Aug 15, 2008 05:44 PM UTC
Return Risk
-24.58% LOW
Tracked Blogger
Symbol Sentiment Start Return Closed
XOM Positive 08/15/08 +1.99% --
COST Positive 08/15/08 -24.31% 11/28/08
DIS Positive 08/15/08 -31.85% --
SPLS Positive 08/15/08 -25.34% --
LMT Positive 08/15/08 -35.95% 10/27/08
INTC n/a
MSFT Positive 08/15/08 -3.09% 10/03/08
BDX Positive 08/15/08 -26.26% --
STR Positive 08/15/08 -41.16% --
IBM Positive 08/15/08 -1.41% 08/28/08

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Filed under: Microsoft (MSFT), Intel (INTC), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Newsletters, Walt Disney (DIS), Costco Wholesale (COST), Staples Inc (SPLS), Lockheed Martin (LMT), Personal finance, Stocks to Buy

"I've always been a big fan of putting into the market on a regular basis regardless of what is happening in the overall market," explains Chuck Carlson, long considered one of the advisory industry's leading experts on dividend reinvestment plans.

Here, the editor of The DRIP Investor offers a 10-stock "autopilot" portfolio that is diversified among 10 high quality dividend-paying stocks and requiring a monthly investment of under $500.

Carlson says, "If I've learned anything in the more than a quarter of a century of following the markets, it is this fact - buying stocks when you know you should (i.e. during sharp down moves) is really difficult. Our heads says we should; a

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juliasofia44   N/A     1 point   commented 94 days ago reply

Great analisation in overall market.

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