My K.I.S.S. Dividend Portfolio: 1st Quarter 2018 Update

Wow! What a ride! Saying this market has been volatile is quite the understatement. Down 1000 points one moment, up 500 points the next. It’s all I can do to just hang on! My portfolio went from being up 6% to being down 3%, all in the span of a few weeks. But guess what...
I DON’T CARE!!!
OK, that’s a lie. Yes, I care, but I’m not losing any sleep over it. Why not? Because I’m a dividend growth investor. I’m not worried about the prices of my stocks. I’m worried about how much they are paying me in dividends, and how quickly those dividends are growing. And as you’ll read later in my article my dividend payments and dividend growth are doing just fine. Even as the market goes up and down like a roller coaster, my dividends keep growing.
But more about that later. For now, let me present to you my latest quarterly portfolio update.
If you wish to review my previous quarterly updates, you can find them here:
My K.I.S.S. Dividend Portfolio: 1st Quarter 2017 Update
My K.I.S.S. Dividend Portfolio: 2nd Quarter 2017 Update
My K.I.S.S. Dividend Portfolio: 3rd Quarter 2017 Update
My K.I.S.S. Dividend Portfolio: 4th Quarter 2017 Update
Review of My First-Quarter Contributions and Dividends These are the total dividends I received over the past three months and the comparison (in parenthesis) to the same months during 2018:
Jan: $2,818.15 ($2,219.79) (+26.96%)
Feb: $5,019.33 ($4,016.76) (+24.96%)
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