August

Welcome to the start AUGUST!

Late night on the 3rd of August, I finally decide to get up and update the website with some data and writing. August 2nd's buy was supposed to be only 250 dollars but I was like.... Man, I REALLY want those shares of Enbridge Inc (ENB), Valero Energy Corp. (VLO), and VICI Properties Inc (VICI). The good thing is that we at least got to buy some shares of VICI but the the other two didn't get included in the buy. I'll most likely be missing out on the Ex-Dividend dates for both Valero and Enbridge which sucks but hey I mean, I'm not in a rush. I woke up on the 1st like you know what, Imma just do it and get it over with. The regular 250 dollar deposit was included as well so my wallet took a prety big hit this week. There's 500 dollars left in the month though so maybe I'll have a chance to scoop some of those VLO and ENB shares after all.

So I decided to take a mini vacation from the website in regards to posting my buys and the incoming dividends. It's been exactly 2 weeks since I've made any sort of update to the website but I'm finally back. I ended up missing out on the ex-dividend date deadline for both VLO and ENB but it wasn't a total failure; I picked up almost 1.3 shares of VICI Properties Inc (VICI). You check out how many shares of whichever stock I have in my portfolio over on the Holdings page. If the holdings page isn't up to your liking, you can check out my entire portfolio over on M1 Finance. Maybe I'll get to invest some money in VLO and ENB next month. My next investing day is on the 30th but I don't think it'll happen then. Apart from that, August has been pretty quiet so far. Dividends have yet to catch up with July's total amout of $16.17 and with only 2 payments left in the month, I don't see how we can come up with a lead. Portfolio total value has been been increasing at a fantastic rate. I hit my goal of 12K for year 2 of investing. My third year goal is to shoot for 18K but thruthfully, what I really want is to get to 20K by year 3. I managed to hastily hit the 2K profit marging but fell off as the trading days continued. Guys, I have some big plans for the website coming up. I've been thinking of incorporating a newsletter, adding some sort of communications/interactions page that way people who view the website can input some of their thoughts and get inputs from others; including me, and creating a social media page! I don't know yet, just thinking about how to implement some of those things onto the website.