Dividend Sensei's Portfolio Update 8: Everyone Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth

First, let me be very clear that this is my personal portfolio tailored to my specific financial situation, risk profile, time horizon, and personality traits.
I am NOT recommending anyone mirror this portfolio, which is merely designed to show my unique, rule-based, methodical approach to value-focused, long-term, dividend-growth investing.
For a detailed explanation of my methodology, please read my introductory article to the EDDGE 3.0 portfolio.
What Happened This Week Mike Tyson once famously said, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Well, that describes this week perfectly.
It started out calmly enough, with me considering some solid advice from the comments in my last update.
Specifically, two things stuck with me. The first idea that perhaps I should recycle some of my lower-yielding dividend stocks, which I bought for diversification purposes, into higher-yielding ultra values that popped up last week due to the market's irrational ongoing hatred of midstream MLPs and retail REITs.
The second thing I was left pondering over the weekend was whether or not a 20% max position size (which only pertained to Uniti Group ((Nasdaq: UNIT))) was too large.
Now I'm a highly risk-tolerant investor, and I had previously estimated that a worst-case scenario regarding UNIT would involve a 6% loss of capital, which I felt comfortable with at the time.
However, in absolute terms, a 6% realized loss would equate to... Read more