01-30-2021, 02:07 PM
I too am just realizing the freedom of $0 commission. I like your idea of turning off the dividend reinvestment and deciding for yourself where to allocate the funds. What I've been doing is buying 1 share of any stock I'm interested in. I think it's better than a Watch list to have an actual connection to the stock at hand. Then when I'm in a position to add more income to the portfolio, I can choose to bring one of those 1 share assets up to a real investment or not.