Post Your Stock Picks: Massive Growth, Dividend, or Other!

[Salama2017]

This forum has been around for 10 years and I can't believe I never started a "stock" thread.

Guess now is as good as a time as ever.

For those of you who dabble in the stock market for medium to long-term holds, what stock has piqued your interest?

What stock do you foresee will be the next NVIDIA? The next Apple? What company do you want to own and be a part of?

Or, what dividend/income stocks are you owning for regular income?

I'll start...

I have several brokerage accounts and most of them are set up for options for income, but I do employ the Paycheck Pot strategy as outlined in Unscripted .

Here are some of the stocks I own (have owned, or will own) -- keep in mind I do cycle in and out of many of these because of the rules outlined in Unscripted .

I've set up my TDAmeritrade account to send me a monthly dividend check. Typically they just deposit the dividends in the account but I expressly requested to be sent a check, kinda like a paycheck. I love that every month I get a physical check. I know, old school.

Additionally, I write a lot of covered calls on these positions, if available. (Many dividend/MLP stocks do NOT have options.)

Here's what I hold, have held, or will hold....

AMTD - Ameritrade (Paycheck Pot)
MZA - Tax Free Arizona Municipal (Paycheck Pot, Tax Free Income)
SO - Southern Company (Paycheck Pot)
F - Ford Motor Co (Paycheck Pot)
FAX - Asian Debt (Paycheck Pot) [Sidenote: been out of this one for YEARS but I believe it has bottomed]
PMT - Penny Mac Mortgage (Paycheck Pot)
CGBD - TCG Biz Dev (Paycheck Pot)
HEP - Holly Energy (Paycheck Pot)
STAG - Stag Industrial (Paycheck Pot)
LTC - LTC Properties (Paycheck Pot)
OIH - Omega Healthcare (Paycheck Pot)
EPD - Enterprise Prod. Part (Paycheck Pot)
VTR - Ventas (Paycheck Pot)
CVX - Chevron (Paycheck Pot)
VZ - Verizon (Paycheck Pot)
MPLX - (Paycheck Pot)
AGD - Global Dividend (Paycheck Pot) [Sidenote: Typically a bad investment, looking to see a NAV appreciation gain, steep discount)

On the Closed End Funds, I tend to make buy/sell decisions based on NAV/Price fluctuations, looking at premium/discount averages, highs, and lows.

Due to the tenuous market, I'm short a lot of calls on this stuff, including long market puts to insure a downside. And yet, the paycheck keeps coming.

As for speculative stuff...

Just ...

ACB - Aurora Cannabis, Speculative (FU Pot)
MJ - Short a ton of puts, pot ETF
EEM - Emerging Markets (looking at a short term swing, assuming no recession)

Overall, I'm not heavy into the market currently because of my late summer prediction of a coming recession. That still looks to be highly probable.

Any stock you want to mention? Post away!

I have 118 of Costco (COST) shares. I normally reinvest the dividends Although its not that much at all. Although the stock has been doing well, I don't trust the future of the company. However, I'll continue to hold and hope it'll keep going up.

 

[Rem]

I'm still going for growth. Not a ton of dividend stocks as mentioned in Chapter 48. I've read Unscripted twice and each time we discuss the paycheck pot I feel like I'm doing it wrong. So I might be changing things up and going all in on the paycheck pot strategy. My current holdings from 2 broker accounts:

Apple AAPL
Amazon AMZN
Boeing BA
Berkshire Hathaway BRKB
Dow Jones Internet Index Fund FDN
Gilead Science GILD
Google - Alphabet Inc. GOOG
Home Depot HD
iQIYI Inc. IQ
Microsoft MSFT
Pan American Silver Corp PAAS
Pinterest PINS
First Trust Cloud Computing ETF SKYY
Vaneck Vectors ETF TR Semi Conductor SMH
Spotify SPOT
Uber UBER
Zoom ZM

Apple Hospitality REIT APLE
Alibaba BABA
Facebook FB
Nintendo NTDOY
Bank of America BAC
Wells Fargo WFC
Slack WORK
CannTrust CTST
Emerging Markets ETF EEM
US Real Estate ETF IYR
S&P 500 ETF x3 UPRO
Treasury Bull x3 TMF