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By Aimee Duffy - Apr 10, 2013 at 10:31AM

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You don't have to wait for a market crash to buy stocks on sale.

Everyone knows that the ideal investment strategy is to buy low and sell high, but we also know that it is impossible to time the market. With that in mind, investors should start tracking down quality companies that offer dividend reinvestment programs. In this video, Fool.com contributor Aimee Duffy offers us two energy stocks that do just that, and give investors a 5% discount on shares purchased with dividends.

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Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.

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$10.80 (-0.18%) $0.02

Enterprise Products Partners L.P.

EPD

$26.76 (0.60%) $0.16

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