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Bravo, that's a great set of criteria. Not shorting is especially important imo.

Concerning micro and small caps, I have a place for them, but not too many micros since they are just too unpredictable. I followed Orchids Paper Products (TIS) for years and it was doing fine (I thought), but it ultimately blew up big time. Now I only have three micro caps on the list, and two of them are water utilities.

I consider a market cap of under $1 bil a micro, 1-5 bil are small cap, and 5-15 bil mid cap. The added risk isn't a huge deal since all the individual stocks put together only amount to 10% of the overall portfolio.

Some of these small and mid caps are really exciting, and it's a fertile area to find great growth stocks. But I definitely agree that most of one's portfolio should be in larger caps, and ideally in broad index ETFs.

I agree on the importance of dividends, and on avoiding the dividend 'outliers'. As for tech stocks, I usually avoid the hardware type stocks, though the services and software sub-sectors of tech can offer some great growth stock ideas -


https://investorshub.advfn.com/Technology-Sector-Ideas-25502/