Portfolio management for income investors
One click to see your complete investment picture.
Monthly income
Overall yield
Total portfolio value
​​Unrealized gain
Today's change in dollars and percentage
Percent change over the past month
Zoom in on the details for each security
Create filtered views
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Sort or filter your data by:
account
asset type
asset value
price change
capital gain
yield
and others...
Benefits of Dividend-Tracker
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One click to see your complete investment picture
No need to log in to each brokerage website
Track your monthly portfolio income, yield and value.
Access your data on any computer or your phone,
No personal identifiers or passwords.
Identify securities in need of a decision to sell, hold, or buy more.
Graphs
See your data summarized visually
Free Reports
Why income investing?
Baby Bonds
Permanent portfolio
Methods to track income investments
Essential income investing links
For those who are afraid to risk money
A simple 3-fund portfolio
Income investing advice
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Other offers from SPF
Spreadsheets:
--Accumulation phase
--Preservation phase
Dividend-Tracker Links
Introduction to Dividend-Tracker
Video (see below)
Complete manual
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All about Dividend-Tracker (DT)
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This site is not about specific investment recommendations (see disclaimer at bottom of page one), but just as [Vanguard Boggleheads](https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Three-fund_portfolio) have shown you can do well over time investing in just 3 funds, I developed this example of a sleep-well-at-night income portfolio. Click the links below to learn more about the Permanent Portfolio concept and to see my shot at it, and those of others as well.
What do you get with a membership?
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Dividend-Tracker (DT)
Security prices and dividend payouts provided by IEX
Email support
Preservation Phase spreadsheet
Accumulation Phase spreadsheet
Baby Bond
Email Tips and Tricks for DT
Bank of Mom and Dad spreadsheet
 DT Home PageYour data sorted by account and investment type. Plus, the daily winners and losers, losers for the last 4 weeks, largest investments and smallest investments |  DT summary lineTotal portfolio value Overall yield Total monthly income Unrealized capital gain |
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 Unrealized gainsDividend-Tracker sorts all of your investments by unrealized capital gains, by dollars and percent, ascending or descending |  Filtered viewsCreate and save filtered views. Here, the main page is filtered to one account |
 GraphsSee your data summarized numerically and visually, as Value by account, Value by type of asset, Yield by account, Yield by type, Distribution of yield, Total portfolio value over time, CPQ over time, Monthly income over time |  CPQ CalculationThe Capital Preservation Quotient (CPQ) accounts for gains and losses of securities you've sold and added to current unrealized gains and losses. |
 CPQ GraphThe Capital Preservation Quotient tells you by what % your portfolio must grow in order to maintain its orginal value. If 0% or greater, you can withdraw all dividends and know that your principal is stable. |  Add new securityWhen you buy a new security, just add it to the first empty row, make up your own nickname or copy the name from your broker's page; record date of purchase, # shares, average cost per share, account, and type. |
 Why not track total return?Dow Jones Industrial Average for the last 100 years |  Permanent portfolio pageThis site is not about specific investment recommendations (see disclaimer), but just as Vanguard Boggleheads have shown you can do well over time investing in just 3 funds, I developed this example of a sleep-well-at-night income portfolio. Scroll down to learn more about the Permanent Portfolio concept. Click the link to see the details of my shot at it. |
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How to use Dividend-Tracker
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