Jim I wouldn;'t have the time to try this strategy, especially if one is selling after qualifying for the dividend. With transactional costs, extra tracking of buys and sells come tax time would be too laborious. I do however keep a note on the ex div date for stocks I own and if they are in a buy zone I will add to them before that date.

On another note did something happen to the formatting on SC? my reply box takes up the whole page now so I have to scroll down to read what I am replying to. Plus I am showing 10 attachment boxes for files, what blew up???

As more and more offer this service,  I wonder how much it will hurt Yahoo and other sites.  My local newspaper offers most of this data for free now.  It is becoming harder and harder to justify paying for the data.

Bob

As the market heads south, dividend stocks are becoming more attractive.  Especially nice is that as the price drops the yields increase.  If I didn't have DRIPs, I am not sure my nerves would let me go without selling everything.

Bob

Here are some thoughts on dividend payers from the street dotcom.

http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/investing/10427574.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA 

Another opinion on buybacks from seeking alpha. BTW, I agree with this article.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/89140-when-buybacks-are-bad?source=yahoo 

Interesting story on buybacks vs dividends from seeking Alpha

http://seekingalpha.com/article/118708-share-buybacks-and-dividends-the-missing-fine-print?source=yahoo 

For those of us who have had dividend cuts

http://seekingalpha.com/article/141129-how-to-replace-sold-dividend-stocks?source=yahoo 

looking for Increasing dividends?

http://seekingalpha.com/article/149847-11-companies-increase-dividends 

CTL http://seekingalpha.com/article/154385-century-tel-the-dividend-aristocrat-with-the-highest-dividend-yield?source=yahoo

ABT http://seekingalpha.com/article/150713-abbot-laboratories-a-healthy-dividend-aristocrat?source=article_lb_author 

WWE http://seekingalpha.com/article/152955-world-wrestling-entertainment-a-high-dividend-stock-due-for-big-profits?source=article_lb_author 

Thirteen aristocrats who have not increased their dividends for the first time in many years

http://seekingalpha.com/article/161050-13-consistent-dividend-raising-companies-currently-on-freeze?source=email