Most REITs Are Less Volatile Than the S&P 500: Here Are 3 Excellent Picks

Picking stocks can be fun. It can also be stressful. The bigger a stock's potential gain is forecast to be, the more volatile that ticker seems to be. It's a treacherous dynamic simply because it's all too easy to bail out of a falling stock at the worst possible time -- that is, right before a rebound.If this reality is agonizingly familiar to you, there's a solution: Swap out at least some of your stocks for real estate investment trusts (REITs). Not only do these dividend-oriented investments ebb and flo ...