See also firewall to contain moetf volatility

— low-div blue chips .. There are many very strong and convincing blue-chips paying low CDY or unstable dividend amount.
I hesitate as buy-n-forget is hard .. If price climbs then starts falling, I may be forced to babysit my position.

— low-div hot stocks
In my blogpost, “hot stocks” mean “popular growth stocks”. All of them pay low or zero dividend, due to the high price. Most of them are speculative IMO.

Many tech stocks are hot stocks.

Is it permissible to buy a bit (possibly fractional) of each, in the recreational scheme?

• $budget — $5 to $50
• t-budget — 3 to 10m
• .. pre-clearance is another t-budget
• learning benefit — after I hold such a stock, I would monitor it once a few months, and pay some attention.

criteria:

• analyst rating
• distressed stock is best. Hot stocks often become distressed.
• the name should be quite familiar to me, otherwise, the “learning” benefit gets lower as the number of my stocks grow. So a new name introduced up by a friend doesn’t qualify.