You're listening to the Option Alpha Podcast from Option Alpha.com where we show you how to make

smarter trades learn how the stock market really works and generate consistent monthly

income. Now your host and head trader at

option alpha.com Kirk depluses.

Hey everyone this is Kirk here again at option alpha

com working every single week to make this the most popular

investing podcast offered online and in iTunes because it's based on one thing

and one thing only and that's helping you make smarter trades. So again, thanks so much for

tuning in today and we've got a cool episode because I get this question a lot and

it's something I want to talk about on the podcast. I didn't want to write a

blog post about this but this question about how you can buy dividends

just for, or buy stocks just for the dividends, buy dividends for the stocks, buy stocks, buy stocks

just for the dividends. And I get this question, I mean seriously, I I get this question I mean seriously I probably get this question two to three times a week from people on the website and that's like a lot for a simple question like this and so we're going to go through it here in the entire show and make sure that you guys understand exactly what the drawbacks are what the benefits are maybe how you can do it and maybe an alternative strategy if you can't buy the dividend for or buy the stock for the

dividend.

So before we get into that though, I definitely want to talk about our quick freebie that we have

for today's show, which is our ultimate strategy guide. We talked about this and a couple

other shows but a new way of getting this if you don't want to go to the website which is

just option alpha.com slash e-book is you can actually text in the word strategies so again that's just one word

strategies st rat e g i e g i e s to the short code 4 442 to 2 and when you do that you'll

just have to put in your email address

when you hit the reply back for me and then it'll automatically send you a copy of our

Ultimate Strategy Guide, which is expanded out to 90 pages. So we still haven't had

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