Comments on Dividends4Life: Refining Risk Measurement Of Dividend Stocks

Dividend Tree: I like the idea of incorporating a ...

2008-12-30T16:27:00.000-06:00

Dividend Tree: I like the idea of incorporating a debt load into the risk calculation. I look at debt but have not directly built it into my analysis.

Joe: I have not heard of ETJ before. As time allows, I would like to take a look at it. Thanks for ringing it to my attention.

Best Wishes,
D4L

There is a very conservative options strategy call...

2008-12-30T14:41:00.000-06:00

There is a very conservative options strategy called a "collar strategy" where you hold a stock (or an index) and sell covered calls against it, and use the money from the calls to buy "insurance" using puts. I’ve been doing a lot of research into using this strategy. It looks like a very good conservative strategy. While you can "roll this yourself", it’s a lot of work. I have found 2 ways to

Another piece of gem from D4L data mining! 2008 sh...

2008-12-30T11:53:00.000-06:00

Another piece of gem from D4L data mining! 2008 showed the need for appropriate risk metrics.

I have been playing around with different elements to calculate a risk number. Assigning individual risk number is exactly same as yours 1 (low), 2(medium), and 3 (high). But the parameters are somewhat different.

Price (P) and Yield (Y) are similar to yours. However, I am not using