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Posted by Martin February 10, 2013

My inspiration in last week #9

My inspiration in last week #9

I often browse the internet to find ideas about investing, trading stocks, options, investing opportunities and strategies. I like to read about investors and what their investing/trading approach to create income you can live on is.   This week I found the following interesting posts: Warren Buffett’s Techniques on How to be a Self-Made Billionaire Continue reading →

Posted by Martin February 10, 2013

Website update

Website update

I updated my website. It still is not finished and not everything works yet. But I will continue working on it. I like simple look of the website, hope you enjoy it as well.

Posted by Martin February 06, 2013

New trade – Armour Residential (ARR) put selling

Today I decided to sell a put against ARR. I sold July 20 7.5 strike put. If the stock rises above 7.5 it will expire worthless and I keep the premium ($84) and repeat the process. If the stock stays below $7.5 at expiration (or the owner of the put decides to execute it) I Continue reading →

Posted by Martin February 05, 2013

A correction? Looks like not.

Yesterday I wrote about a possibility of market turning into correction or pullback. I was aware however about new money flowing into the market, although in slowing pace than a month ago (see the yesterday’s chart and Chaikin Money Flow; any value above 0.10 is considered as heavy buying, although it is slowing down). Today, Continue reading →

Posted by Martin February 04, 2013

A correction? Finally!

A correction? Finally!

Today, we probably have experienced a long anticipated correction to this extended market. It was a very impressive run, but in my opinion the stocks got expensive. Almost all indicators were in heavy overbought territory and a break was imminent. The question was, when. Was Monday the beginning of a correction? If so, I would Continue reading →

Posted by Martin February 03, 2013

My inspiration in last week #8

I often browse the internet to find ideas about investing, trading stocks, options, investing opportunities and strategies. I like to read about investors and what their investing/trading approach to create income you can live on is. This week I found the following interesting posts: When To Buy And Sell Dividend Growth Stocks – Seeking Alpha Continue reading →

Posted by Martin February 02, 2013

Website upgrade

OK, after about 5 years of having this blog I finally decided to upgrade and dress it up into a new coat. When ready, I will upgrade and some features of this blog may not be working anymore or for some time. I will be updating the new version once uploaded on the fly.

Posted by Martin January 30, 2013

New trade – Lorillard, Inc. (LO)

Today I added Lorillard, Inc.(LO) shares into my portfolio. It pays nice dividend with 23% dividend growth, 4 year dividend increase history and 21% annual expected return growth. My calculated fair value is at 41.33 a share and Morningstar lists their fair value at 41 a share. Their analysis expect better and more aggressive growth Continue reading →

Posted by Martin January 30, 2013

List of great high yielding dividend stocks

I was finally able to update my watch list of dividend stocks I consider worth to watch closely and potentially add to my portfolio. I had the watch list created in my Google Spreadsheet, but today I finally changed my watch list page to reflect the table. It currently shows my most recent list of Continue reading →

Posted by Martin January 29, 2013

Trade adjustment – DMD covered call repair

As I wrote in my article “My DMD covered call and fiscal cliff? my covered call against DMD may go against me. I expected that to happen if the fiscal cliff happens. Well, fiscal cliff didn’t happen (yet, and maybe won’t happen at all), nevertheless DMD is not going in my favor. Since the covered Continue reading →