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Dividend Growth Portfolio - Objective: Retire by 50
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DW is right, you need an investment strategy. The biggest question you have to ask yourself, IMHO, is:

What am I going to do if my investment(s) drop 30/40/50 percent?


The reason why I say this is because this happened to me two times in my investment life, during the dot.com bubble and during the 2008/09 financial crisis. A lot of people that I personally knew behaved in many different ways, from rational to irrational, some very intelligent people made very poor decisions that had a permanent affect on their investments. I guess, one doesn't really know how they'll react until it happens? I know, for me, personally, I continue to evolve as an individual investor.

Good luck and welcome aboard!
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RE: New to DGF - by Dividend Watcher - 08-01-2015, 11:09 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-02-2015, 01:13 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Dividend Watcher - 08-04-2015, 12:36 AM
RE: New to DGF - by rayray - 08-02-2015, 04:58 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-02-2015, 12:41 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-03-2015, 10:09 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-03-2015, 11:28 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-04-2015, 02:23 PM
RE: New to DGF - by EricL - 08-04-2015, 04:40 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Dividend Watcher - 08-04-2015, 07:19 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-04-2015, 11:46 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-16-2015, 10:52 AM
RE: New to DGF - by rapidacid - 08-16-2015, 10:59 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-16-2015, 11:48 AM
RE: New to DGF - by rapidacid - 08-16-2015, 02:12 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-24-2015, 11:17 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-29-2015, 05:42 AM
RE: New to DGF - by crimsonghost747 - 08-29-2015, 10:20 AM
RE: New to DGF - by ChadR - 08-31-2015, 11:34 AM
RE: New to DGF - by rapidacid - 08-29-2015, 07:53 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Dividend Watcher - 08-29-2015, 07:56 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 08-31-2015, 05:20 PM
RE: New to DGF - by kayboy - 08-31-2015, 06:12 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 09-20-2015, 02:02 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 09-21-2015, 06:59 PM
RE: New to DGF - by rapidacid - 09-22-2015, 06:21 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 10-27-2015, 10:50 AM
RE: New to DGF - by EricL - 10-27-2015, 11:13 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Roadmap2Retire - 10-27-2015, 11:20 AM
RE: New to DGF - by crimsonghost747 - 10-30-2015, 11:05 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Roadmap2Retire - 11-01-2015, 12:40 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 10-27-2015, 11:56 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Roadmap2Retire - 10-28-2015, 08:46 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Dividendsrule - 10-27-2015, 02:28 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 11-30-2015, 02:01 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Amos - 12-01-2015, 05:43 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 12-01-2015, 10:08 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Amos - 12-01-2015, 10:25 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 12-01-2015, 10:38 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 02-08-2016, 06:30 PM
RE: New to DGF - by kayboy - 02-08-2016, 08:15 PM
RE: New to DGF - by DividendGarden - 02-09-2016, 01:16 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Dividend Watcher - 02-08-2016, 08:21 PM
RE: New to DGF - by EricL - 02-09-2016, 10:57 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 02-09-2016, 01:44 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 03-16-2016, 02:40 PM
RE: New to DGF - by DividendGarden - 03-21-2016, 09:33 AM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 03-16-2016, 02:59 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Kerim - 03-16-2016, 03:15 PM
RE: New to DGF - by benjamen - 03-17-2016, 07:15 AM
RE: New to DGF - by lucas03 - 03-22-2016, 06:12 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 03-22-2016, 06:27 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 04-19-2016, 02:42 PM
RE: New to DGF - by EricL - 04-19-2016, 02:58 PM
New to DGF - by Rasec - 04-19-2016, 09:04 PM
RE: New to DGF - by EricL - 04-19-2016, 10:47 PM
RE: New to DGF - by Rasec - 06-30-2016, 09:30 AM
RE: New to DGF - by NilesMike - 06-30-2016, 09:36 AM
RE: New to DGF - by EricL - 06-30-2016, 11:34 AM



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