Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 149 on January 4th, 2024 HAPPY NEW YEAR!  Today, I will be answering nine interesting investment questions. QUESTION (1)  How do I recover from losing a lot of money in stock and option trading?    QUESTION  (2)   Should I borrow money to invest in dividend paying stocks that pay a dividend yield percent higher than the interest percent I would pay?   QUESTION (3)  How can you tell when a company’s growth has peaked, and it is not time to sell?    QUESTION (4)  Can you lose all your money as a self-directed investor if you invest only in penny stocks?   QUESTION (5) Is it a mistake to buy financially solid high dividend stocks whose prices and dividend yield percents appear to be stagnant?    QUESTION (6)  How much of a growth in dividend payout percentage over the last 20 years would you want to see before buying a stock?   QUESTION (7) Do you only buy a stock when they are undervalued or when the price-to-earnings ratio is low?    QUESTION ( 8) How important is the amount you have to invest?    QUESTION (9) Do you have certain industries you prefer to invest in and others you stay out of?    (A transcript of this podcast is available.)   SIX INVESTMENT BOOKS BY IAN DUNCAN MACDONALD,  (ALL BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON.COM KINDLE BOOKS) (1) CANADIAN HIGH DIVIDEND INVESTING -Released August 26, 2023 In this 325-page book, learn how to select, purchase and build a portfolio of Canadian strong dividend stocks. Summary records of 215 stocks provide detailed scoring data and 24 years of price and dividend trend data. (2) NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE'S 106 BEST HIGH DIVIDEND STOCKS -Released December 2022. In this 334-page book, for each company's 11 data scoring elements and 23 years of historical share price and dividend payouts allow investors to judge each stock's reliability and potential. (3) AMERICA HIGH DIVIDEND HAND BOOK                                               &  (4) CANADIAN HIGH DIVIDEND HANDBOOK  in these two books, pages of charts are sorted four ways by stock score, share price, dividend yield percent and alphabetically. A page for each stock provides eleven facts which created a stock's total score. (5) SAFER BETTER DIVIDEND INVESTING: All 628 stocks paying dividends of 6% or more on the NYSE and the NASDAQ are scored and sorted by score, price, dividend % and alpha. 199 high dividend Canadian stocks are also provided. (6) INCOME AND WEALTH FROM SELF-DIRECTED INVESTING In this, his first investment book, Ian MacDonald shows you how you can realize an annual 6% income while your portfolio continues to grow year-after-year.He warns you of investment advisor tactics not in your best interest, FOR MORE INFORMATION, www.informus.ca    Ian Duncan MacDonald Author, Artist, Commercial Risk Consultant, President of Informus Inc 2 Vista Humber Drive Toronto, Ontario Canada, M9P 3R7 Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994 New York Telephone - 929-800-2397 [email protected]