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Dow Down 7.3% Jan & Early Feb

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EJYou may feel whipsawed by this stock market so make sure you’re getting paid cold, hard cash to invest in it. I only like dividend paying stocks for you because investors piling into the market now may be gone in January. Let’s not forget what a rotten start 2014 was as E.S. Browning of The WSJ observes:

The concern is that those investors might move at least some of their money elsewhere after New Year’s Day. Something similar happened at the start of 2014, when the Dow fell 7.3% in January and early February. Bad weather hurt stocks then, too, but January usually is a strong month as retirement money flows into the market.

After stumbling at the start of this year, the Dow rose to a record high in April. Since then, the giant-company index has stumbled three more times but then recovered faster each time. Last week’s rebound was so sharp that you could carve a holiday turkey with it.

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E.J. Smith

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@youngresearch.com.