Contrarian Outlook

Our beat here at Contrarian Outlook is dividends. We seek to collect them using proven income strategies.Dividend stock investing isn’t easy, even though it looks so on the surface. (Find a high...

One of the most powerful stock-market indicators you’ll ever find is a simple one I call “relative strength.”It means that stocks that outperform now will likely keep outperforming....

Stocks are up—and so are coronavirus cases. And right on cue, I’m hearing from plenty of investors asking if now is the time to sell and lock in their gains.No way. It’s actually a...

As we prepare to say farewell (or, good riddance!) to 2020, let’s beat the investing herd and figure out how we can really rake in some cash in 2021. And, in doing so, put this dumpster fire of...

2020 has turned on a dime, and we dividend investors need to pounce now to set ourselves up for the big dividends and fast upside in 2021.With a (mostly) settled presidential election and a vaccine...

If there’s one thing you can be sure of in investing, it’s this: alarmists—whether they’re bulls or bears—almost never get it right. And playing the contrarian angle is a...

Since we last connected last Wednesday, we’ve had a few notable events happen (to say the least!)First, former vice president Joseph Biden became president-elect Joe Biden. Depending on your...

Make no mistake: now is the time to buy dividend stocks. That’s because stocks tend to rally from Election Day to the end of the year—no matter which party wins.The important thing is that...

I sure hope you didn’t listen to the nervous Nellies who told you to pull your cash out of stocks ahead of the election. Since Oct. 30, the S&P 500 has jumped more than 5%, as of this...

Many investors believe that financial markets react to the news. But it’s a bit more nuanced than that. Asset prices move with respect to their expectation of the news, versus the actual events...

Tech has taken a punch in the face this past few weeks—prompting many readers to wonder if it’s time to sell after booking some big gains in the sector this year.No way. We’re...

I sure hope you haven’t listened to the bleating pundits begging us to sell everything ahead of Election Day. These talking heads don’t realize that, historically speaking, cash has...

They’re here again: more articles warning us of the “dangers” of municipal bonds. Don’t take the bait, because these wrongheaded articles will steer you away from some of the...

Why choose between dividends and growth when we can have both?Thanks to popular payout programs from the likes of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), investors can buy a growthy tech...

Four years ago, I published an article detailing how a young upper-middle-class professional could quit working and still survive on dividends alone in just five years. It was a claim that many folks...

Firms increasing their dividends in 2020, of all years, are sending a powerful “payout confidence” signal to Wall Street:Our dividend is safe—so secure, in fact, that we’re...