5%+ Dividend Yield Portfolio: Ignore The Political Circus (Sep 2018 Review)

Outlook If you mix your politics with your investment decisions, you’re making a big mistake.
- Warren Buffett
Politics dominates the headlines these days (even in the financial press)… and how could it not with the circus on display. However, allowing your political views to shade your investment decisions is a sure loser. In fact, even following the political headlines too closely, even when they touch on the economy (e.g. the many threatened or real government shutdowns that have yet to meaningfully effect the economy), is sure to cause you to miss out.
Fear can take many forms and be amplified by many simultaneous sources, but learning to filter out the noise and focus on the fundamentals is one of the best things you can do to preserve your long-term profit potential in the stock market. In calendar 2018 alone, we investors have been subjected to a constant barrage of negative doomsday headlines that sound real enough, but only stood to cause you to miss out (if you followed their advice).

Source: Ben Carlson
I suppose it is just human nature to excessively worry about the future (especially when politics are involved), but just remember that stock market crashes generally correspond with recessions… and we are no where near a recession. So feel free to complain or gloat about the state of our politics, but please don’t trade based on what you see/hear/believe about politics. Since the political world is always seemingly in... Read more