Investing Update 1/16/2016

It was another week of stock prices going down in value, and lots of stocks being sold off. As I said last week, the market goes up, the market goes down. This isn't the end of the world. If I had more money available currently, I'd be buying a ton of stocks.

Year-To-Date Update

	1/1/2016	1/15/2016	Change since Jan 1st
Robinhood Portfolio Value	$607.87	$616.58	$8.71
Money from my pocket	$550.00	$600.00	$50.00
Dividends	$9.79	$11.07	$1.28
Gains/Realized & Unrealized	$48.08	$5.51	-$42.57

The table above shows the change in my Robinhood portfolio since the start of 2016. My realized and unrealized gains are trending towards $0, and by next week I may have an overall negative return.

Dividends

Company	Ticker Symbol	Dividend Amount
Disney	DIS	$0.71
US Bancorp	USB	$0.26
Realty Income	O	$0.19
Total		$1.16

I received $1.16 in dividends this week from the 3 companies listed above. For "O", I believe the dividend payment was $0.195, so I will have to see how Robinhood handles the half cent portion of the dividend. 

Stock Purchase

Stock	Ticker	Shares	Buy Price	Avg. Price/Share
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	1	$33.95	$33.95
Total			$33.95

ADM was on my list of stocks to buy for my 2016 Investing Mission. It has an upcoming ex-dividend date around February 12th.


2016 Investing Missions

• Purchase and hold 25 different stocks that pay dividends: 13/25 - 52% Completed (Not counting Disney stock)

• Receive $75 in dividends: $1.28/$75.00 - 1.71% Completed.

You can click on the investing tab or here to see what stocks I currently have in my Robinhood portfolio.

Signed,

Mitch