Loyal3 Lunch: Week 7

How many lunches?

If you haven't been following this series, I'm trying to break my habit of eating out at lunch for no good reason.  Each day I bring my lunch gives me $5.00 to invest in stock with Loyal3, an online commission-free broker.  This week I brought my lunch four days; therefore, I have $20.00 to invest this week.

Which Stock?

Stocks took a beating this week.  I decided to add more of the stock in my portfolio that had dropped the most.  AMC had dropped 9% since I bought it.  Why the stock that dropped the most?  Well, basically, I believe in these companies and believe they will do well; therefore, when the price drops it is like getting my favorite things at the store when they are marked down.  We shall see if this is a good strategy or not.  

Am I making money?

Well, I didn't notice it until after I had pushed the buttons, but I got an eight cent dividend from VFC this week.  However my portfolio as a whole is down 3%.  Before today, I'd invested $120.00 and it is worth $116.65.

You can see my whole Loyal3 Lunch portfolio by clinking the link at the top of the page. 

Loyal3 Lunch: Week 1

I told you in my "Plugging a Leak" post that a big money-waster in my life was buying lunch for no good reason.  I'll be rushing in the morning and forget to grab something, or what is in the house doesn't appeal to me, or what I brought for lunch doesn't appeal to me, or (about the only "good" reason), friends suggest going out.  I decided that for every day that don't eat out (and avoid the junk food box in the office kitchen) I will put $5.00 into stock via Loyal3, a commission-free online broker.  I opened the account with $10.00 last week, which purchased 0.0865 shares of Walt Disney stock.  This week the only day I ate out was the day I went to Baton Rouge on business.  I could have brought a lunch, but I chose not to.  Therefore, this week's deposit into Loyal3 is $20.00.  I am going to purchase stock in AMC, the movie theater company.  They pay a dividend worth about 3% of the current value of the stock, and I am looking for dividend stocks.  Professional analysts give it a "buy" or "hold".  The price is on the low side as compared to earlier this  year.  I know AMCs theaters are popular here.

I plan to buy shares in between six and eight different companies in this portfolio.  Hopefully I'll makes some money along the way.  Do you have a leak in your wallet?  Could you re-direct a few dollars per week into the stock market via Loyal3.

*Part of Financially Savvy Saturdays on brokeGIRLrich, A Disease Called Debt and One More Broke Twenty-Something*