Dividends & Income Digest: Where Are You Finding Opportunities In This Market?

A correction is inevitable, right? Maybe another recession? With stocks soaring through 2017, leaving prior highs in their wake, the market's bound to lose steam at some point.
Or is it?
At best, it's impossible to know when new highs will be traded in for slips and slides. In the meantime, we wait, and we do our best to spot opportunities and take advantage of them.
Blue Harbinger recently pointed to evidence of a potential fall market top in "10 Safe High-Income Opportunities," and wrote:
We believe the stock market is going much, much higher over the long term, but we also know many investors simply cannot stomach short- and intermediate-term volatility and thereby prefer to focus their investments on safe income-generating opportunities instead of simply very long-term capital appreciation.
In "Are Dividend Investors Becoming Irrationally Exuberant?" Adam Aloisi wrote that over the past few months, he's struggled to find compelling dividend investment opportunities. He cautioned that "this is not the time to be aggressive. Dividend growth on a wholesale level is slowing, payout rates are rising, risks are escalating, while potential rewards are diminishing." Nevertheless, he wrote:
There is clearly a volatile, growth-speculative backdrop to today's market, but it should be characterized as much more rational and perhaps discriminate than 20 years ago. Back then, start-up IPOs, stock splits, and an... Read more