Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (TEVA) recently offers interesting premiums and 60% chance that it will expire OTM. The trade setup is positive too. I decided to take this trade and sell one December contract to collect nice premium. I would love to trade shorter time frame, but with a small account as mine I need Continue reading →
As I mentioned in my post on Friday, I was expecting two more trades to close soon as they would get closer to becoming worthless. It happened today! On Friday last week, my put selling trade against LINE lost value to $0.05 per contract, so I could buy it back (for free) and keep the Continue reading →
Today, I closed a trade against Line Energy (LINE) which I opened at the beginning of May (05/07/2014) with expiration in July – next month. I sold 1 put contract with 28 strike and July expiration for 1 dollar (or $100 collected in premiums). Today, this trade was worthless (it actually cost 0.05) and I Continue reading →
Stocks retreated today. I didn’t have time to check why actually it was happening, but honestly, I do not care. I look at the market trend and stocks trends from technical analysis perspective and trying to eliminate the noise media are creating every day. What I see is an insignificant pullback on 1 year chart Continue reading →
I did it once before when I started trading options and I doubled my account from $4000 to $8000 couple of years ago (in 2011), but then I lost everything back down to $2000; $1914.70 to be exact. That was my wakeup call and I started looking for a strategy, which would no longer be Continue reading →
It all depends on your trading style, plan and strategy. If you are a long term investor buying dividend stocks for a long haul, it probably doesn’t matter if you use all your available cash. If you use margin however or trade options, I learned that it is a very important thing to maintain some Continue reading →
There is a simple answer to this question, but I will make it a bit longer and complicated. It may be difficult for novice investors to engage in options trading, because from everywhere around us we keep hearing how dangerous options are. Financial advisors of all sorts will tell you that options are very dangerous, Continue reading →
There is an old adage on Wall Street – “Sell in May and run away”. If you have done that, then you missed a nice returns overall as markets grew quite nice in May 2014. S&P 500 rose by nice 2.18% in May and closed near all-time high. What a blessing! Should I have sold Continue reading →
This is another test trade I am going to open on Monday if my price limit is met. It is a live test of my squeeze signal reading. Microsoft stock has experienced a strong squeeze lasting roughly a month and a half and recently it shot up to release the squeeze energy. Will this move Continue reading →
Another month has ended and I must admit it was a successful month although it started miserably. At the end my account ended up by whooping 7.74% (adjusted for contributions). Again, I had nice income made of dividends and collected options premiums. Once again, this month I focused primarily on increasing account value, meaning contributing Continue reading →
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