1. As a strategy to get money from the companies in times of recession is to make use of the companies paying high dividends and for that one has to find the companies comprising the key indexes like Sensex, Nifty or say Dow Jones Industrial Average.

2. As a strategy which will always pay results is to find the dividend yield of all the companies comprising of the index in any xountry and than find the Dividend Yield = (Annual Dividend) / (Current Share Price) .

3. After analysis find the the top 5 dividend yielding companies and invest equal amount in all the stocks and let a year pass.

4. One will get dividend and can also buy/sell these top 5 dividend yielding companies. One is not going to fail as investing in big established companies even in tough times pay hefty dividend as they use their cash reserves and are thus able to tide over the crisis.

5. Last advice in this issue is to not to get married to any stock and exit from it; in case the same is not providing good yield.