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Posted by Martin January 01, 2022

2021 SPX put credit spreads trading review – week 52

The last week of the year 2021 was still positive with a bull market intact for our SPX trading. Also, our indicators were bullish, so we opened new trades although these trades are now in the money (not all of them, just two of the most recent trades), we think they will recover because the Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 31, 2021

2021 Week 52 investing and trading report – End of the year!

Wow, the year 2021 is over. I wish all my readers Happy New Year 2022! It was exceptionally good year. I made a lot of money this year trading options, buying dividend growth stocks, and reinvesting the dividends. Overall, I achieved 60% ROI trading options, but if we take into account that I started the Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 25, 2021

2021 Week 51 investing and trading report

One more week and the year 2021 will be over. So far, it was a very good year investing and trading in dividend growth stocks and options monetizing my positions. This investing and trading report will show our effort in achieving our goals. As Santa rally came to the town, our Net-Liq recovered form last Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 24, 2021

2021 SPX put credit spreads trading review – week 51

After a week of increased volatility, the stock market picked up the end of the year steam and rallied. I am pleased to see that my strategy of tactical trading the SPX spreads worked well and during the volatile downtrend the strategy kept me out of the trades and when the market finally turned around, Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 18, 2021

2021 SPX put credit spreads trading review – week 50

After a year or two of testing and studying how to trade SPX efficiently and without losing money. I tested several strategies and although there were some losing trades, overall, the strategy I decided to trade with live money worked well. The strategy is to sell put credit spreads (PCS) to generate income in lieu Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 18, 2021

2021 Week 50 investing and trading report

December is almost over. The entire year 2021 is almost over. Despite extreme volatility, FED, inflation, fear, I must say, 2021 was an exceptional year for me. This is almost the last investing and trading report this year. I was reporting my progress diligently every week to show how I was doing. And the results Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 11, 2021

2021 Week 49 investing and trading report

As expected, the December market recovered once the panicking investors realized that the Omicron fear was not justified. Fear of the increased inflation didn’t materialize as inflation, though high, was within expectations. The market rallied last week and in this investing and trading report, we can announce another great achievement: our account reached the $100,000 Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 05, 2021

2021 Week 48 investing and trading report

November 2021 and the beginning of December 2021 ended up as my worst performance so far. Of course, I can’t expect that our account will go always up only, there will be drawdowns, but as you will see in this investing and trading report, our net-liq lost $8,562 which represents a loss of 8.93% since Continue reading →

Posted by Martin November 27, 2021

2021 Week 47 investing and trading report

Wow, the end of the month got pretty wacky! We have received news about a new Covid variant and “although experts do not know yet if it will cause more or less severe COVID-19 compared to other strains” investors already started shooting themselves, jumping out of the windows, and selling their wives and kids off. Continue reading →

Posted by Martin November 21, 2021

2021 Week 46 investing and trading report

November is almost over and I am disappointed so far. Our net-liq dropped last week, our stock holdings were shaken down a bit (mostly by my mistake with APPL strangle that I forgot to roll), our options income was low so far. The only item that was in line with plans was dividends. This investing Continue reading →