A few years ago, when I was training trading options, the trader from whom I was learning pointed out that the markets were turning down. Slowly reversing. And I remember I made quite nice money under his leadership. The chart looked like this: It was 2011 and the market corrected 16% those days (from July Continue reading →
Making 45% Annually Trading Options Against Dividend Growth Stocks
Archive for 2015
4 Best-Positioned Upstream MLPs: MEMP, VNR, LRE, and LGCY.
Wunderlich Securities analyst Jay Dobson has a pretty glum assessment of upstream master limited partnerships (MLPS). These are exploration and production companies that have been hammered by energy price declines. Dobson writes in a June 15 industry report: The sector has too much debt on average and has suffered from the dramatic decline in oil, Continue reading →
Stocks to buy in June 2015
May stocks I selected finished down -2.98% loss. The market is still driven by interest rate fear and oil pushed down by a price war. All will end one day however and the stock will go back up. For June 2015 I have a new selection but the change from the previous month is small, Continue reading →
PPL spun off to a new Talen Energy. Shall I keep it or sell it?
If you own shares of PPL Corporation, you are most likely a new owner of a brand new company Talen Energy. I bought 66 shares of PPL a few years ago, I think it was in 2013, and since then my holdings grew up 12% plus I enjoyed a nice dividend at around 4% annually. Continue reading →
If you sell a put against dividend stock, do you pay a dividend?
Recently, I got this question from a subscriber of mine. “Do you have to pay a dividend if you sell a put option against the dividend paying stock?” It is a good question and short answer to that is no, you do not pay the dividend. You are obliged to pay the dividend (its substitution) Continue reading →
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