The month of May for over the years has generally been a month of "thoughts" for most people. For myself at least, I have a lot of stocks that I own going ex-dividend at the month of May and (don't misunderstood me) yes indeed very happy I am. However, as many would have already known, the month of May has traditionally been a month of "sell" and many of the index would fall quite sharply at times, causing individual stocks to fall as a result. Because of this incident, it made me think whether it is beneficial for shareholders to take their dividends in May when the stock would instead go lower after they have gone ex-dividend. For example, my ST Engineering was reaching $3.30 a day before it goes ex-dividend. The dividend given out was $0.125. However, (traditionally as well), the stock would fall to near $3 everytime ......