Everybody wants to have only the best stocks in their portfolio. This need leads us to the question – Who to turn to for stock picks? While you can very well pick your own stocks, reaching out to experts, publications or using algorithms to arrive at the perfect stock is a more sure shot approach. Continue reading →
Making 45% Annually Trading Options Against Dividend Growth Stocks
Archive for 2014
Which stocks to buy in 2015?
I trade mostly dividend paying stocks, but watch a few companies which I consider good companies although they do not pay dividends. These I use in my portfolio as growth play stocks (for example a few months ago I did buy Alibaba (BABA) for this same reason). In my watch list I have approx. 100 Continue reading →
MERRY CHRISTMAS
I thank you all my readers for visiting my blog, reading, and commenting. I hope you were able to get a few trade ideas on my blog during the last year. I mostly had many interesting trades, although I also had a few losing trades this year, too. Last year we were able to make Continue reading →
New purchase – Legacy Reserves LP (LGCY) MLP with 17.80% dividend yield (ROTH IRA)
A recent sell off of energy stocks provided excellent opportunity to add a few good dividend stocks to investors’ portfolios for great prices which may not repeat again. Well, I wouldn’t say that they wouldn’t repeat again as the opportunity of purchasing Legacy Reserves for this great price actually repeated again. I had a few Continue reading →
How to create bullish option spread?
Jerry, my newsletter subscriber, asked me the following question: I like (The Walt Disney Company) DIS long term, say out to 2016. How do I set up a bull spread on it?” I liked his idea and the company, so I decided to post my answer how I would set up a bullish spread against Continue reading →
Energy stocks crushed, time to rebalance my 401k account
In my 401k portfolio I do the same old strategy as many other investors do. It is not a play money and the strategy is simple – invest in selected mutual funds (I cannot invest into anything else in my 401k anyway), hold for a long run, and rebalance the account twice a year. I Continue reading →
Expiration Friday mostly flat
The week looked good until last Thursday end of the trading. Markets were slightly up which was good for our options positions set to end this Friday. I had an Iron Condor against SPX set to expire today. It was 2105/2110 calls and 2030/2035 puts. Since the market ended at $2067.56, both legs of the Continue reading →
Happy Thanksgiving Day
Dear readers, subscribers, traders, and investors, It has been a rough year and I believe for many of you a profitable year. The end of this year wasn’t as good to me as I would wish, yet I am grateful for it as I learned a lot from my mistakes. I hope I would be Continue reading →
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