ROFLMAO
Well then you ain't been around long enough.
Pay attention when your elders speak.
Well then you ain't been around long enough.
Pay attention when your elders speak.
I’m not retarded.You're either born retarded or wilfully retarded. Why would any investor not rebalance?
Nice. Thanks for running that data.Here is the answer to your question. I created a portfolio from 1/1/2008 until now using the portfolio you outlined. I started with a roughly equal distribution among those stocks. Each year, I used the dividends that were paid out to buy whichever stock from the group had the biggest losses. As you can see, it did slightly underperform the market. However, as far as dividend portfolios go, this portfolio is a bit unbalanced. You don't have any REITS, Utilities, and only a little bit of energy.
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This screenshot and backtest was generated using: https://www.smarterdividends.com
Dividend reinvesting the S&P 500 is ~ a 50% beat on the S&P 500 without reinvesting. After adjusting for inflation, ~6% vs 3%. I DO NOT FOLLOW THE PREMISE AND WANT TO KNOW WHAT IM MISSING NOT JUST LISTEN TO ME BECAUES I"M OLD
Another great example why investing for dividends is a horrible strategy.
Anyway, the premise of the thread (which clearly evades you) is to show that buy and hold of many “Blue Chip” dividend darlings has been a losing strategy
My quotes are almost identical. I don’t understand what you mean?Sorry bro you can't change your premise and then claim a new one was always what you meant. You said dividend stocks are bad investment strategies. I wouldn't have bought any of those, by the way.

Clubby isn't the old man, I am.That logic doesn't fly old man. You can do the same thing with a random stock from the S&P index from 1989. It's likely to be gone by now. So similarly, you'd rebalance your dividend basket.
I am not sure what the premise of the thread is here. Is it supposed to be that high dividend stocks shouldn't tumble?
Anyways, it looks to me like high dividend stocks outperform the SP500, in just about every case, over the long term. Here are a few different back tests with various high div. yield portfolio's compositions vs SP500.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/634901-40-dividend-champions-vs-the-s-and-p-500-30-year-backtest
http://www.youngdividend.com/2015/01/aristocrat-backtest.html
https://seekingalpha.com/article/1031581-backtesting-dividend-growth-vs-dividend-yield
https://www.spindices.com/documents...sp-500-low-volatility-high-dividend-index.pdf