Paula Blatchford

On a mission to: Positively empower & elevate |Finance Advocate|Build Generational Wealth | Leverage stocks, Dividends trader, | investing Multiple-assets

[Paula Blatchford @Paula_Blatchfod]

Trading with a view✨

[Paula Blatchford @Paula_Blatchfod]

@antaressiren @vodkom3 @emkenobi You are mentally deranged and i hipe you never mnow what a happy life looks like

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60 contracts called and reopened.

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lock in twin 😌🧿

comment “bookmap” if you want to learn how to use order flow in your trading ✨

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@levon96 Mainly daily calls.

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$500k to $1.8M in august

Traded mainly $SPY & $TSLA calls and puts, and few other tech stocks. There’s a were a few high probabilty trade’s that did 200% on a single position

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@AA__Flicks @FotoNugget @thematinjimoh @justm3sly

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@djr0129 @TheLastVikingXO You must be very stupid to think all those crime, this is clearly a traffic stop or someone being arrested for the most petty thing being that is just one cop

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@KittyGlowz @cornontheknobs @davetrees_ @niy2pretty Sorry to say you think less than a child, so comparing urself to a child is an upgrade. And with the look of things your future isnt really bright same as your mentality

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@gypsytrader42 @KkZorro51727 @RGWFlagge @travelingflying Stop being stupid, he clearly proved you wrong and now u resorting to being uncivilized exactly what you criticize.

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I see you everywhere spreading hate, their are criminals everywhere but including whites, but hey let’s be racist, you are disgrace and your hate won’t make you do any better in life. Calling people primitive in 2026 is the most stupid and dumb thing have ever seen a feel human say idiot.

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4/7 trade on $SPX - this is the ONLY trade of taken this week

Called live on zoom with my team

Comment “checklist” if you want to trade live with me ✨

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@JamesReedman1 @HJB_News__ @rightwingertoo @X You must be really sad to call fellow humans animals and uncivilized you are a boffum and a racist, hating on people that simple looking to better their selves yes they are few bad eggs but a lot of this people just want to have a well working system you He-goat

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3/30 trade

60 contracts on this play - around a 38% ROI on this play overall

Comment “BOOKMAP BREAKOUTS” to find out how I utilize order flow in my strategy ✨

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IV was a bit higher this week so a lot of volatility in the premium spikes - got around a 30% ROI on this but it would’ve been more if I didn’t scale all the way out 🙂

Comment “bookmap breakouts” to get access to my free sessions.

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2/4 Trade

Trade live everyday last week on zoom with the discord team and was 4/4

I always focus on quality of quantity of trades! All you need is one good trade a day, proper scaling and you won’t have any FOMO

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Days to avoid trading as a beginner!

I’ve been trading for almost 9 years now and this is my personal opinion based on what I’ve seen from the market over the past 9 years 💁🏻‍♀️

comment “RULES” to see a list of rules I created to keep myself disciplined in the markets

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1/29 trade on $SPX

Really had to be patient this week with the market! I only took 3 trades total this week and every trade was called live in the discord!

50 contracts on the 6960P @ $18.10 fill (pretty bad fill on this)
Total ROI of around 45%

Comment “BOOKMAP BREAKOUTS” to get access to my free session

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ServiceNow ($NOW) reports earnings Wednesday with the shares down 41%

ServiceNow ($NOW) reports earnings Wednesday with the shares down 41% over the past year and in good value territory for one of the best software stocks. Investors have been worried that AI is going to eat into software growth as people vibe-code instead of hiring companies like ServiceNow and Salesforce but that full transition is going to take years or more. Until then, ServiceNow has an upside opportunity to be the intermediary with its AI agents, helping customers use AI in their operations. Revenue is still expected to grow at a 20% pace this year and next, which doesn’t sound to me like an industry in trouble, with earnings expected up an even higher 25% this year. If the company does hit that current year revenue forecast, it will mean the shares are priced at just 10.2-times on a price to sales basis, less than half where they’ve traded at in the past. AI may eventually transform software companies but ServiceNow is going to have a few upside surprises before that happens.

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The rise of AI gave S&P 500 a boost while the high dividend stocks were negatively affected by high interest rates, I think.

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Dividend Stocks Have Outperformed the Stock Market Since 1931

I have analyzed how high dividend stocks and broad stock market performed from 1931 to 2025.  Over the 95 years period, high dividend stocks, with a 11.3% annual return, have meaningfully outperformed the stock market, with a 10.5% annual return.

I used Fama-French dataset, specifically comparing the "High Dividend Yield" portfolio (top 30% dividend-paying stocks by yield) against the "Market" portfolio (a proxy for the S&P 500). The high dividend stocks in the analysis are the stocks whose dividend yield is among the top 30% of all dividend-paying stocks.

Overall I think it’s worthwhile to add high dividend stocks into a portfolio, because its overall long term performance is at least comparable or, strictly speaking, somewhat better than the overall market. Furthermore, high dividend stocks worked best when the overall market struggled in periods like 1970s and 2000s. So during these periods, if you used S&P 500 as your only growth engine, your portfolio would struggle. Your return would be meaningfully better if you had more exposure to high dividend stocks.

I think there may be two reasons why high dividend stocks outperform the overall stock market in the long run: 

1.      the value factor. High dividend stocks often have a much lower PE ratio than the overall stock market. Value stocks may outperform the overall stock market in the long run according to some researches.

2.      the “caring shareholder value” factor: a company pays high dividend means it cares about shareholder value and it is willing to return value to shareholders. That’s better than wasting the money on bad M&A or new projects. So paying high dividend and buying back shares may be a good sign for stocks.

I'm not suggesting you should completely replace your S&P 500 portfolio with high dividend stocks. But, say for an investor who's currently 70% in S&P 500 and 30% in bonds, to add 5% high dividend stocks in the portfolio ( so it will be 30% bonds, 5% high dividend stocks, 65% S&P 500) may reduce the volatility of your portfolio without decreasing the return of your portfolio in the long run.

Performance by Distinctive Time Spans

1. The Depression & Recovery (1931–1945)

High Dividend Return: +13.2% Annualized

S&P 500 Return: +8.6% Annualized

High dividend stocks proved to be more resilient than the broad stock market during the period, while high growth stocks crashed.

2. The Post-War Boom (1946–1969)

High Dividend Return: +13.8% Annualized

S&P 500 Return: +12.6% Annualized

Both high dividend stocks and broad stock market did pretty well.

3. The Stagflation Era (1970–1981)

High Dividend Return: +11.9% Annualized

S&P 500 Return: +5.8% Annualized

S&P 500 stagnated. high dividend stocks shined. It seemed dividend stocks performed especially well during the periods when the stock market performed sideways. Another example was the “lost decade” from 2000 to 2009.

I also want to emphasize that the 5.8% return of broad stock market may be worse than it seems because the inflation of the period is more than 7%.

4. The Great Moderation & Tech Bubble (1982–1999)

High Dividend Return: +16.1% Annualized

S&P 500 Return: +18.5% Annualized

This was the period when the tech stocks did especially well. I’m surprised to see the high dividend stocks’ return of 16.1% is not bad at all.

5. The Lost Decade (2000–2009)

High Dividend Return: +6.8% Annualized

S&P 500 Return: -0.9% Annualized

This was the period when broad stock market struggled and high dividend stocks shined.

6. The Era of Cheap Money (2010–2020)

High Dividend Return: +10.5% Annualized

S&P 500 Return: +13.9% Annualized

Tech stocks, especially “Magic Seven” or whatever large tech stocks were called during the period, did wonderfully.

7. Post-Pandemic & AI Boom (2021–Early 2025)

High Dividend Return: +10.1% Annualized

S&P 500 Return: +13.2% Annualized