Instead of spending the start of every month preparing for (and boring you with) both the expenditure and passive income updates, I have decided to provide the latter only during the middle of the month, like now. This way, I am able to use more accurate figures (Sep statements that arrive only in early October) and also provide the amount of dividends I actually received for the past month. After all, I have to admit the dividend figures on the My Passive Income page are just estimates or forward indicators of the income I would receive. The markets rallied in September (up >10% within a few weeks) after the much-feared QE tapering was again delayed. Therefore, not surprisingly, this translates to a quiet month for me with no significant transactions except the monthly savings ploughed into the Philips Sharebuilder Plan. After all, I had exhausted quite a few bullets in August too. Although there is no change to passive ......