Got Cash? Let's Hope For Some Market Mayham This Quarter, Huh?

So if you've got your monthly budget in place, I hope you've got a part of that budget stocking away cash into a savings account.

My financial budget requires me to have atleast six months of living expenses stashed away as cash in an emergency fund and another two to three months of cash in my checking account for occasional one time expenses (such as lump sum insurance payments, an unexpected expensive car maintenance service, charity, gifts, living expenses etc). When you have a family, you want to be prepared.

Transitioning To A Long Term Dividend Growth Reinvestment Model

I started transitioning my investing strategy from a "buy stocks that look good" to a Dividend Growth model over the last year. This meant that I would plan to sell most off my existing positions while keeping a few that stuck to my dividend growth reinvestment model and then start new positions to reach my goal of creating a self sustaining Dividend Growth portfolio.