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Archive for December, 2021

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 15, 2021

Few Tasks for 2022

As the year-end of 2021 approaches, I started a few new tasks or goals that I want to work on and develop during the year of 2022:   Fully fund and run HFEA strategy   HFEA strategy is accumulating 3x leveraged ETF (SPXL) but with downside protection (TMF). My initial goal was to use $15,000 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 07, 2021

FOMO

What was obvious a week ago that Omicron probably is not as bad as investors perceived (definitely not worse than the Delta variant), and FED tapering no longer matters, everybody started chasing the markets again. Last two weeks investors were selling everything. Today, they are buying it back at higher prices. Many are screaming “buy! Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 05, 2021

November 2021 $100 Challenge account review

Trading a small account requires a lot of patience and diligence. It is not get-rich-quick trading. When trading a small account, all odds will be against you – the fees, restrictions, regulations, everything will be set to make your journey hard and difficult. But the payoff will be sweet. When I started trading options I 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 →