As you can see, even though GAIN jumped an additional $0.64 to $12.64, it is now trading around $11 just a few weeks later. This is why you must stick to your plan. I sell at $12 because I believe at $12 it should be sold. If I held onto it because I thought there was more upside potential, I may have been “right” for a few weeks, but when do you sell if you don’t have a plan? $12.63? That would have been pretty sweet, but hopefully not $12.65, because if so you would be down $1.65 by now with nothing to show.

The table below portrays the monthly dividend payments and reinvestment since 2/11/2019. I think this table reinforces the theory of using Dollar Cost Averaging when investing in the stock market, which is clearly what I am doing. The DRIP buys shares regardless of the price. The average of the column Settlement Price is $11.80. So even though I bought some at $12.57 in April, the $11.15 in May (just one month later, mind you) sort of balances it all out.