Exclusive Interview with Dan Schatt CCO of Stockpile: World’s First Gift Cards for Stocks

The following informative interview was provided by Dan Schatt, the Chief Commercial Officer at Stockpile, which is a provider of the world’s first gift cards for stocks, making it extremely easy for the average consumer to invest in the stock market.

Stockpile gift cards are now available at local grocery and retail locations, including:

  • Toys“R”Us
  • Safeway
  • Office Depot / Office Max
  • Kmart
  • Giant Eagle
  • Buehlers
  • Lowes

Over a thousand stocks are available as gift cards, including ETFs and ADRs. Some of the most popular gift cards are for:

  • Google
  • Amazon
  • Apple
  • BMW
  • Coca-Cola
  • Disney
  • Dunkin’ Donuts
  • eBay
  • Facebook
  • Hershey

The Interview

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Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fourth Week of October

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, and the dividend amount.

Royal Bank of Canada RY 10/24/2016 0.64
The Clorox Company CLX 10/24/2016 0.80
Williams-Sonoma Inc. WSM 10/25/2016 0.37
Signet Jewelers Ltd. SIG 10/26/2016 0.26
ConAgra Foods, Inc. CAG 10/27/2016 0.25
NiSource Inc. NI 10/27/2016 0.17
PNM Resources Inc. PNM 10/27/2016 0.22
Scholastic Corp. SCHL 10/27/2016 0.15

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.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

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.


Many Marijuana Stocks Jumped 35% Today: Will They Continue to Get High or Go Up in Smoke?

If you thought that stocks in all the sectors seemed to be drifting downwards recently, you probably didn’t notice that the marijuana industry has been smoking.

For example, Cannabis Sativa (CBDS) jumped over 36% today. This is the company that Gary Johnson, the Libertarian presidential candidate, resigned from in January as CEO and Director, in order to run for president.

General Cannabis (CANN) rose by 31%, Cannabis Science (CBIS) went up by 29%, and Medical Marijuana (MJNA) went up by about 21%.

So what’s the reason for all this activity? The upcoming election. Marijuana legalization in some fashion is on the ballot in ten states, which is a record in terms of marijuana measures in one election.

The states that are involved are as follows:

Arizona
Arkansas
Arkansas
California
Florida
Maine
Massachusetts
Montana
Nevada
North Dakota

Some measure just involved medical marijuana, such as Arkansas and Florida. Other states have measures to legalize recreational marijuana, in addition to medical marijuana. Most investors are looking at Proposition 64 in the state of California, due to the size of the state’s population. Many investors believe that if California legalizes, then the cannabis stocks will take off.

marijuana stock index
Marijuana Stock Index

Look at the above chart of the Marijuana Stock Index. Back in late 2013, the pot stocks skyrocketed. Many investors in the medical arena became millionaires almost overnight, at least on paper.

The companies that make up this list are as follows:

Advanced Cannabis Solutions CANN
Cannabis Sativa Inc. CBDS
Cannabis Science Inc. CBIS
GreenGro Technologies, Inc. GRNH
GrowLife Inc. PHOT
Hemp Incorporated HEMP
mCig MCIG
Medical Marijuana Inc. MJNA
Agritek Holdings (MediSwipe) AGTK
Pharmos Corp. PARS
Planda Biotech PLPL
Psychemedics Corporation PMD
Solvay SA SVYZY
Terra Tech TRTC
Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl. VRX

One thing to keep in mind before investing in these stocks are that most of them are very low cap and extremely speculative.

If you are looking for a list of over 120 stocks that are connected to the marijuana industry in some way, go HERE.


It remains to be seen what will happen to these stocks, or what happens with the ballot measures, for that matter. Just remember, if you invest in a small cap stock, be prepared to lose it all.

Disclosure: Author owns CBDS, HEMP, and MJNA.

Using Google Ngram Viewer to Analyze the Interest in Stocks, Bonds, and Gold

Have you ever used Google’s Ngram Viewer? It is an incredible tool. Free, of course. If you don’t know what an ngram is, Wikipedia defines it as “an online search engine that charts frequencies of any set of comma-delimited search strings using a yearly count of n-grams found in sources printed between 1500 and 2008.”

If that is not clear, I will try to define it in very simple terms. It is a chart of the popularity of a word or term or person. For example, I produced a chart of stocks, bonds and gold since 1900.

Gold, bonds, and stocks
Gold, bonds, and stocks

The top green line represents gold. Notice how it went up during the roaring twenties and continued up into the middle of the Depression. Bond had a bit of fluctuation, but stocks, surprisingly, didn’t vary much and even during the Depression, remained relatively flat. (Please remember, none of this has to do with the prices of these items, only the popularity of these terms.)

Gold Bonds Stocks from 1960
Gold Bonds Stocks from 1960

Looking at the chart from 1960, stocks, bonds, and gold seemed to drop off, except from the year 2000, gold started to move up.

What else can you find with n-grams? How about the popularity of Warren Buffett?

Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett

Other that a very slight drop-off from 2005 to 2006, Warren Buffett’s chart has been constantly rising.

Want some more interesting charts? How about Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Look how it started to take off around 1980 and started to drop off in 1989.

Robotics had a similar run but flattened out at a much higher level than previously.

Robotics
Robotics

Finally, lets look at the stock market by itself, without comparing to bonds or gold.

stock market
stock market

It has been generally in an uptrend, but in 2001 it started dropping and continued to drop.

So where can you find this great tool? just go to:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph

Remember, it can be used for searching anything, not just investment information. You can look up topics related to politics, literature, education, and anything else.


One last one for your amusement and especially financial historians:

“bull and bear”

bull and bear
bull and bear

Corporate Stock Earnings Report for Week 3 of October

Looking for some interesting moves in some stocks this upcoming week? Check out the companies that will be reporting earnings this week.

If earnings exceed analysts’ expectations, the stocks can shoot up. If the numbers underperform, the stock can tank. Then again, occasionally, stocks don’t move the way you would have expected.

Anyway, many traders use earnings plays for trading strategies. Also, option traders look for high implied volatility of stocks for for option selling strategies.

Here are many of the enormous number of stocks reporting earnings this week:

Monday

BAC
CE
TACO
HAS
IBM
NFLX
UAL

 
Tuesday
 

BLK
CMA
CREE
DPZ
GS
HOG
HA
INTC
JNJ
PM
UNH

Wednesday

ABT
AXP
EBAY
GPC
HAL
MAT
MS
XLNX

Thursday
 

AMD
AAL
SAM
ETFC
MXIM
NUE

PYPL
SLB
TXT
VZ
WBA

 
Friday
 

GE

HON
MCD
SAP
If you like interesting stock lists like this, be sure to check out many of the free stock lists here at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.


Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Third Week of October

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, and the dividend amount.

Graham Holdings Co GHC 10/17/2016 1.21
Lowe`s Companies Inc. LOW 10/17/2016 0.35
Pier 1 Imports Inc. PIR 10/17/2016 0.07
West Pharmaceutical Services WST 10/17/2016 0.13
Yum! Brands, Inc. YUM 10/17/2016 0.51
Horizon Technology Finance HRZN 10/18/2016 0.12
Apache Corporation APA 10/19/2016 0.25
Colgate-Palmolive CL 10/20/2016 0.39
CVS Health Corp CVS 10/20/2016 0.43
Hormel Foods Corp. HRL 10/20/2016 0.15

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 WSNN.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.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

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.


The Purpose is Profit: The Truth About Starting and Building Your Own Business

If you have ever considered starting your own business, or maybe you are at the beginning stages of your startup, you owe it to yourself to read the book  The Purpose Is Profit: The Truth about Starting and Building Your Own Business  by Ed “Skip” McLaughlin and Wyn Lydecker. The book is very complete and covers everything from the type of business you should start to the important factors in selling your business.

Some of the more important chapters are Dynamic Planning which covers realization of the business vision in spite of and dealing with challenges, Entrepreneurial Branding, Sales is a Contact Sport, and Realizing Value.

One of the more important lessons covered in the book is that it is better to bootstrap than use other people’s money. Another lesson is that profit should be examined for every decision that is made.

The section I found most informative was Appendix B: The Startup Funding Guide, which spells out how to determine how much funding you need, forecasting, valuation, and sources of funding.

For all you starters out there, I highly recommend  The Purpose Is Profit.


Corporate Stock Earnings Announcements for Week 2 of October

Looking for some interesting moves in some stocks this upcoming week? Check out the companies that will be reporting earnings this week.

If earnings exceed analysts’ expectations, the stocks can shoot up. If the numbers underperform, the stock can tank. Then again, occasionally, stocks don’t move the way you would have expected.

Anyway, many traders use earnings plays for trading strategies. Also, option traders look for high implied volatility of stocks for for option selling strategies.

Here are many of the enormous number of stocks reporting earnings this week:

Monday

na

 
Tuesday
 

AA
CUDA
FAST

Wednesday

CSX

DRWI

Thursday
 

DAL
ENZ
INFY
VAC
PGR
RICK
WGO

 
Friday
 
C
JPM
PNC

WFC

If you like interesting stock lists like this, be sure to check out many of the free stock lists here at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.


Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of October

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, and the dividend amount.

Gas Natural Inc. EGAS 10/11/2016 0.08
Harvest Capital Credit Corporation HCAP 10/11/2016 0.11
Humana Inc. HUM 10/11/2016 0.29
Invacare Corp IVC 10/11/2016 0.01
Kadant Inc. KAI 10/11/2016 0.19
Abbott Laboratories ABT 10/12/2016 0.26
AbbVie Inc. ABBV 10/12/2016 0.57
Ampco Pittsburgh Corp AP 10/12/2016 0.09

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 WSNN.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.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

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.


Rescue Your Money: How to Invest Your Money During These Tumultuous Times

The book, Rescue Your Money: How to Invest Your Money During these Tumultuous Times by Ric Edelman, originally came out in 2009. It has recently been revised, updated, and re-released.

For those who have never invested before, or those who have done some investing but have been unsuccessful, this book could be what you are looking for.

The book is a short quick read which covers the obsticle you will run into, various investing techniques that don’t work, and the truths that prevent you from investing successfully.

You have heard the term “Buy Low Sell High.” The author shows you the best way to do it. There is even a chapter on what to do if you are already retired.

This #1 New York Times bestselling author was ranked the #1 Independent Financial Advisor by Barron’s three times.

Rescue Your Money is available on Amazon.