Author: WSTNN

The Latest Top Real Estate Investing Books

You have probably seen those ads on TV about flipping houses and investing in real estate. Before dipping your foot in the water, maybe you should read up on buying and renting homes. The following are some recent top selling books on real estate investing, shown by category. Read, learn, and invest.

Preparing for a Property Upturn: Trends and Pitfalls in Real Estate Investments
Nov 30, 2017
by Ku Swee Yong

Business and Retirement Guide to Belize: The Last Virgin Paradise

Feb 10, 2018
by Bob Dhillon and Fred Langan

 

Keep Claiming It!: A Guide To Property Depreciation
Feb 26, 2018
by Tyron Hyde

 

Real Estate Investment 101: Learn The Passive Income That Everyone Is Talking About
Feb 25, 2018
by Meir Zaslavskiy

 

 

Real Estate Investing UNCENSORED: Real Answers From The Flipping Coach
Feb 24, 2018
by Delinda Harrelson

 

 

Success Secrets of Real Estate Investors
Feb 22, 2018
by Peter Crisp

 

 

The Latest Business Books that are On Sale Right Now

The following entrepreneurship, investment, and business Kindle books are now on sale at Amazon (AMZN). If you are interested in any of these books, you should order them as soon as possible, because often these sales only last for just a few days.

The Purpose Is Profit
By Ed “Skip” McLaughlin, Wyn Lydecker, and Paul McLaughlin
How to launch and grow a profitable startup, financing, branding, selling, and more.
Sale price: $0.99 Retail: $9.99

Living Trusts for Everyone: Second Edition
By Ronald Farrington Sharp
Explains what a living trust is and how to create one.
Sale price: $1.99 Retail: $9.68

100 Ways to Motivate Others: Third Edition
By Steve Chandler and Scott Richardson
How to boost your abilities as a leader and a motivator.
Sale price: $0.99 Retail: $15.99

Reinvent Me
By Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
Provides clear, comprehensive tools for transformation at work and at home.
Sale price: $0.99 Retail: $9.99

7 Secrets of Persuasion
By James C. Crimmins
How to increase your influence at work or at home.
Sale price: $0.99 Retail: $16.99

Womenomics
By Claire Shipman and Katty Kay
A road map to managing a thriving professional life, without making unnecessary sacrifices.
Sale price: $1.99 Retail: $4.99

Risk/Reward
By Anne Kreamer
This book reveals the true value of embracing risk.
Sale price: $1.99 Retail: $4.99

 

Stocks Going Ex Dividend in March 2018

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend.

This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date.

The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the quarterly dividend amount, and annual yield.

Bank of America Corporation (BAC) 3/1/2018 0.12
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (HLT) 3/1/2018 0.15
Pepsico, Inc. (PEP) 3/1/2018 0.805
Jack In The Box Inc. (JACK) 3/2/2018 0.4
Kellogg Company (K) 3/2/2018 0.54
Rocky Mountain Chocolate Fact (RMCF) 3/5/2018 0.12
Home Depot, Inc. (HD) 3/7/2018 1.03
Coca-Cola Company (KO) 3/14/2018 0.39
Nasdaq, Inc. (NDAQ) 3/15/2018 0.38

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found here at wstnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at HERE or WStNN.com. Most of the lists are free.

Dividend definitions: Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List

Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

 

Want to Learn the Latest about Cryptocurrencies? Attend the Crypto Invest Summit

Some of you may know nothing about bitcoin and blockchain. Some of you may have already invested in the cryptocurrencies. In either case, learning more is always beneficial.

The Crypto Invest Summit is a great opportunity to learn more. The Crypto Invest Summit will present the top speakers in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space on two stages and will be the largest crypto expo space in the world. The presentations, pitches, educational panels and fireside chats will run for two days with top industry leaders.

The event will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center at 1201 S. Figueroa Street in Los Angeles from Monday, April 30, 2018, 6:00 PM to Wednesday, May 2, 2018, 6:00 PM.

Currently, you can get tickets at a discount price if you order before February 28. Get tickets soon, because they are expected to sell out fast. You can get tickets HERE. Remember, order before the end of this month.

Two Dozen Ways to Make Maximum Returns from a Stock Market Crash

Today, the stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average, was down over 250 points. The Standard & Poor’s 500 was down almost 15 points, and the NASDAQ was down over five points. Walmart (WMT), a stock that has performed well over the past year, tanked by more than 10%today.

Is this a sign of things to come? If so, there are many ways to profit from a stock market crash without having to incur the unlimited risk or shorting stocks, and without having to buy puts with their own set of limitations.

Another way to play the short side of the stock market is to buy the triple leveraged bearish exchange traded funds. These ETFs provide triple the inverse return of indices. They are available for general market indices,  specific industries, and countries.

There are over two dozen triple leveraged bearish ETFs. They have significant volatility, and may have wide bid and asked spreads, and low volume. Plus, the losses can be quick and substantial. They ETFs are designed for short term trading, not long term holds.

Of course, the advantage of these trading vehicles is that they are a way of shorting various indexes without actually shorting an ETF, plus there is a limit on the downside.

One of the more actively traded triple bearish ETFs is the ProShares UltraPro Short Dow30 (SDOW). The average daily volume is 1.3  million shares and the ETF was up 3.16% for the day.

In terms of industries, you have such 3X bear ETFs as the Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bear 3X ETF (SOXS) and the Direxion Daily Energy Bear 3X ETF (ERY).

To access a free list of over two dozen of these investments, go to triple leveraged bearish ETFs.

Valentines Day Stocks

You have about a week left to do your shopping for Valentine’s Day..Instead of the usual flowers and candy, you may want to consider giving your sweetheart a stock, a Valentines stock. Several companies should benefit from V Day, including those that sell chocolate, jewelry, greeting cards, and gift wrap.

Flowers are a popular give and can be ordered from 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. (FLWS). The comany is the largest publicly traded company of flowers, plus it markets cakes, cookies, candy, wines, gift baskets, and other gifts for your valentine. The stock trades at 17.1 times forward earnings, and a price to sales ratio of 0.64.

red rose All valentines enjoy the gift of chocolate. The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Inc. (RMCF), based in Durango, Colorado creates and sells various types of chocolate candy including caramels, creams, mints, and truffles. The company was founded in 1981, has over 300 franchise locations. The forward price to earnings ratio is 11.4. Rocky Mountain pays a very generous dividend yield of 4.38%.

chocolate candy

What valentine doesn’t like jewelry. Tiffany (TIF), founded in 1837, is one of the largest jewelry companies in the world, with over 60 U.S. stores and numerous international locations. Something like a Platinum Pear Cut Emerald And Round Diamond Pendant would make a nice gift (price is only $120,443). The stock trades at 23.8 times forward earnings. This stock also pays a dividend, with a decent yield of 1.89%.

CSS Industries Inc. (CSS) markets gift wrap, gift bags, boxed greeting cards, gift tags, tissue paper, decorations, and decorative ribbons and bows. The stock trades at 15.3 times forward earnings, and pays a generous yield of 3.22%.
gift box
 For more stocks that could increase sales from the Valentine experience, such as candy and chocolate stocks, check out the free lists here at WSTNN.com. The lists can be downloaded, sorted, and updated.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

Stocks Going Ex Dividend in February 2018

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend.

This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date.

The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the quarterly dividend amount, and annual yield.

Pfizer, Inc. (PFE) 2/1/2018 0.34
Signet Jewelers Limited (SIG) 2/1/2018 0.31
Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) 2/1/2018 0.39
Citigroup Inc. (C) 2/2/2018 0.32
PetMed Express, Inc. (PETS) 2/2/2018 0.25
Intel Corporation (INTC) 2/6/2018 0.3
Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) 2/7/2018 0.3
Boeing Company (The) (BA) 2/8/2018 1.71
The Charles Schwab Corporation (SCHW) 2/8/2018 0.1
Consolidated Edison Inc (ED) 2/13/2018 0.715
Amgen Inc. (AMGN) 2/14/2018 1.32
Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) 2/14/2018 0.563
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) 2/14/2018 0.42
Alaska Air Group, Inc. (ALK) 2/16/2018 0.32
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) (GS) 2/28/2018 0.75

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found here at wstnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WStNN.com. Most of the lists are free.

Dividend definitions: Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List

Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

 

You Can Now Register and Buy Cryptocurrency Ethereum Domain Names

A domain name is is a website address, such as google.com or wikipedia.org. The letters that you see after the dot refer to the top level domain.

Now for those who are interested in the Ethereum cryptocurrency, an ETH domain is now available.

As an example, some of the Dot ETH domains that are currently available for bidding and sale on Sedo include the following:

casinos.eth

banking.eth

wallets.eth

converter.eth

economics.eth

bitcoin.eth

There are hundreds of other ETH domains currently on the list.

If you want to register your own ETH domain name, you can go to ens.domains

 

So is Coinbase Really the Largest Brokerage Firm in the US?

You may have seen articles recently about how venture capitalists want to get in on the success of Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency in the world.

This is partially due to the fact that the company generated a billion dollars in revenue last year and now has more accounts than all the major US brokerage firms.

No wonder why the venture capitalists want to get in on the action, but Coinbase says No to that.

So what about Coinbase’s size compared to stockbrokerage firms? Based on number of accounts, Coinbase is the largest. This is based on the latest figures  of the stockbrokerages found on Wikipedia. Here is the list:

Broker # of Accts
Coinbase 13,300,000
TD Ameritrade 11,004,000
Schwab 10,155,000
E-Trade 4,500,000
Fidelity Investments 4,300,000
Interactive Brokers 385,000

Why Did Donald Trump Register the DonaldTrumpSucks.com Domain Name?

Based on an article that originally appeared at Stockerblog.com on August 19, 2015

A domain name is, in simple terms, the address for a website. For example, Apple.com, Google.com, and Yahoo.com are all domain names. Domain names are often referred to as URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) or website addresses. Usually, it is what comes after the http:// or the https://, and sometimes you see a www thrown in there.

Some people actually register domain names as investments, which for the right name, can pay off handsomely. For example, whoever originally registered fb.com, eventually got lucky and sold out to Facebook (FB) for $8.5 million. The person who owned loans.com sold to Bank of America (BAC) for $3 million, with mortgage.com going to Citigroup (C) for $1.8 million. There are many other high priced domain sales that can be found in the Stock Market Trivia book.

Donald Trump, the current president of the United States, owns the DonaldTrump.com domain of course. Well technically, the registration shows the ownership as the General Counsel of The Trump Organization, originally registered back on March 7, 1999. It is registered through GoDaddy (GDDY).

But when I checked out the owner of DonaldTrumpSucks.com back in 2015, I expected that it might have been registered by a Republican opponent of Donald Trump or possibly someone on the Democratic side. Yet it turns out that this domain is also owned by The Trump Organization.

DonaldTrumpSucks domain 1

When checking again today, it shows the same thing.
DonaldTrumpSucks domain 2
What is interesting is that this particular domain was registered on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2014.   Was that the day that Trump really decided to run? This domain was registered through GoDaddy.
Trump’s company has registered over 3,000 domain names, and according to an article by the International Business Times, the organization buys tens of thousands of domains every year.
Some of these purchases are for legitimate purchases, although currently the pages don’t appear to be live. For example:

trumpequities.com
donaldtrumpbriefcases.com
thetrumpexperience.com
trumpwatches.com

Trump isn’t buying all of them them for investment though. Apparently, many are purchased for guarding against “predators.” Here are some of the domains acquired by Trump:

trumpnetworkmarketingsucks.com
trumpnetworksucks.com
trumpcorporationsucks.com
trumporganizationsucks.com
trumpnetworkfraud.com
trumpnetworkponzischeme.com

All of the above point to a generic GoDaddy web page. However, it is interesting to note that if you go to TrumpSucks.com, it brings you to The Office of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The owner of TrumpSucks is unknown as it  is privately registered through Domain Privacy Service.

The problem with acquiring the anti-Trump domain names is that there are thousands variances of domain names that people can come up with. One example, that I would rather not put in writing but begins with an F is owned by an individual who apparently has had it registered since 2004. For that matter, another domain, which has as its last part, a four letter word that begins with the letter S is also owned by an individual, and was registered a few years ago. Neither of these domains have developed web sites.

But even without the dirty words, there are other top level domains such as .net and .org that could be used with the anti-Trump words, As a matter of fact, an individual just registered donaldtrumpsucks.net in August 2015. And donaldtrumpsucks.org was registered exactly one month ago. Both with the registrar of, who else, GoDaddy, and neither of which are developed.

I’m not sure what the intent of these individuals are. Maybe they think they can resell their domains to the Trump Organization. Have fun dealing with the Trump lawyers.

But is there an investment angle to this, other than trying to find a good (bad) domain to resell to Trump? The one investment that sticks out is GoDaddy, due to its popularity as a domain registrar. Potential investors should be aware that the stock trades at nosebleed high price earnings and forward P/E ratios.

It will be interesting to see how the Trump domain activity plays out. If anyone has any ideas on an investment angle to the Trump domains, please post in the comment section below.

Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.