Product review Part #2: The Standard and Poors Stock Guide. This guide profiles the stocks in the Standards and Poors 500. There is also a version available profiling small cap stocks.

Product review: The Standard and Poors Stock Guide. This guide is very good at showing the historic financial performance of corporations. It comes as a book and profiles several hundred companies. The guide includes a short profile, stock charts and the financial metrics for each corporation.

So what has been going on? I definitely rode the wave from up out of the recession. I had, emphasize had, a lot of oil holdings and I noticed that oil was the hot topic in a lot of stock market conversations. So against my better judgement, I held onto the 'paper gains' and slowly noticed the price of oil declining and refusing to sell my holdings. Well in short, I unloaded a lot of my holdings watching texas crude fall to $45. Anyway lesson learned, I have reallocated my sold holdings to other investments.

Hello, I'm back. Wow the Dow at 18,000, who would have thought that this would have happened a few years ago after it bottomed out at near 6,000. Here is a good link to dividend paying stocks: http://www.dividend.com/dividend-stocks/high-dividend-yield-stocks/