Unfortunately, it's just one of those things we'll have to tolerate.  We can't have everything in this world I suppose.  DRIP growth isn't tracked on this portfolio. I understand where they're coming from. It's a matter of the method they use to keep my personal data secure; can't keep track of the DRIP accumulation.  Personally?  I'd rather my personal data be secure, so I guess in the end I'm fine with it. 

So just what is displayed as growth?  Well, my personal accounts are actually greater.  The DRIP keeps accumulating (Just gained more shares on GMR as a matter of fact).

For those that follow my Daily Blog, and my Vlog around the net, one of the tools I use to demonstrate these techniques are actual accounts that having minimal funds.

One of the principals I teach to people who want to get started for Investing?  Is one of the greatest financial tools out there.

DRIP's.  Which stands for Dividend ReInvestment Plan.  Companies that offer the option of receiving partial shares, instead of a cash dividend.  Over time, you can use DRIP's to compound your growth.  And as Einstein noted, the most powerful force in the universe, is that of compound[ing interest]. Now you combine this principal, with the principal of diversification?  And I demonstrate to the low funded investor that they can get ahead, very quickly.

I just noticed that on this tiny account?  The growth is off.  I noticed with Quicken - that tracks this and other accounts?  My actual account growth is higher.  Then I took a look at the actual holdings.  It's all off.  This tiny account's growth is actually higher.

This is when I discovered that Covestor .... does not track DRIP accumulation?  Huh?  DRIP is like compound interest.  Companies are giving away more shares of their stock, basically ... for free. It can greatly accelerate account growth, and is a tool that all long term dividend investors must take a hold of.

Does anyone know away around this problem?  The shares just can't be 'reset', because this negates what DRIP is actually doing.  If you just reset the shares - then it won't show the exponential compounding activity that takes place with DRIP.  All it will do is cause all account growth to shift.  It won't show the account holdings themself grow, without needing to add more shares.

As I said, does anyone know away around this problem?  I mean ... this is a pretty big deal for me, as I try to demonstrate in the real world, what I teach low funded traders and investors.

As far as the U.S. is concerned, this is one of the single largest banks out there, if not the largest. They are a great when it comes to paying dividends, which is a must for a dividend / DRIP investor such as myself. They've been paying dividends since 1903. They've built a huge reputation on it. And while they've had some writedowns - those writedowns have been some of the smallest writedowns to date amongst the financials.

In addition, they're trying to purchase Countrywide right now, which has depressed their stock price. Which means that I got it at a bargain. Now, with the exception of my "Challenge Project" account - I have not really contributed a large percentage of my available cash to the purchase in any of my accounts. So I have plenty of cash left to diversify into other stocks if the opportunity arises.

In addition, I got a lot of negative talk for wanting to buy BAC. Which for me - is a great sign. As Warren Buffett says: Buy when everyone is fearful. I've let some time pass (I already own BAC from - I think it's the low $40's) to let all the fear play out, and then swooped in once the fear had already been priced into the stock, and I started to see some a few technical reasons to get involved.

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I'm not looking to buy BAC anytime soon.  It may be 3 or 4 months. But I am keeping my eye on it.  Why?  Sooner or later, this sucker has to consolidate.  It'll start to move more sideways than down.  The moving averages will start to round out.  And when that occurs?  I'll look for them to break above the moving averages - in order to DCA my position with them.  I have a lot of excess cash at the moment, and as I mentioned in my first post with BAC - I was somewhat expecting lower prices.  The Countrywide deal has investors and traders spooked.  But we get some resolution?  We see a rounding out of the moving averages?  We get some time to pass? 

This stock is my number one in the DCA category ...

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The portfolio that Covestor is tracking here is a long-term, buy and hold portfolio.  So why is this a great thing?  Why would someone who has a buy and hold WANT to see his stocks lose value over the next two weeks?

Because my portfolio is also based on DRIP's.  And "Dividend Season Approacheth". :)    This means that when the dividends are issued, instead of receiving cash I will receive more shares of these companies, basically for free, at better prices that if they remained at their highs. . .

As I said, this is an introductory buy with them.  Nothing big.  Just a very small 'introduction' with them, on a DRIP / Long Term / Dividend value play.  I'll see how it goes from here on out.  I don't 'scale', nor do I 'reverse scale'.  I just buy, hold it, and see how she performs for a couple of quarters.  Then I'll see about adding to the position.  If anything, I suppose you could call this a 'scaling' hybrid money management strategy.

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This is a very small buy and hold portfolio.  I'm more than pleased that it's outperforming 90% of the "Pros" funds out there.  I will remain cash for the rest of the portfolio, until I see a long drawn out, bottom process on the longer term time frames.  I might take a nibble or two (sometimes I get impatient)

But I won't be doing that anytime soon.  This is a small dividend portfolio, and as it is, my DRIP's are on, and I'll let the dividends DCA those stocks that were bought a little too high.

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