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Posted by Martin November 19, 2023

September – October 2023 SPX put credit spreads trading review

I was busy with many things last two months to report our SPX trading and today I am going to report both months I missed – our SPX trading in September and October 2023. Many things happened during these two months. I switched trading strategy once again as the previous ones didn’t work well to Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 25, 2023

August 2023 $100 Challenge account review

August was a horrible month for our Challenge account. We lost a significant net-liq value due to the correction. One part of the losing strike this month was due to REIT stocks which we are accumulating in our portfolio, namely MPW, and these stocks were hammered this year (not just the MPW but almost all Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 18, 2023

August 2023 SPX put credit spreads trading review

August 2023 SPX trading was slow. Since I trade mostly bullish trades, during bear markets or corrections I sit aside and wait. Time to time, I open a bearish trade but in corrections or during high volatility, the bearish trade may quickly turn against me and I do not want to have too many bearish Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 11, 2023

August 2023 HFEA strategy report

August was a muted month for our leveraged strategy. However, despite a significant decline in the markets and our overall account, HFEA held well. We only lost -$158 (-1.05%) compared to the SPX market which lost 1.25%. Initially, I dedicated $15,000 to this strategy. That represented approx. 15% of our portfolio. When the SPXL underperforms Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 03, 2023

August 2023 Investing and Trading Report

Another month, August 2023 is over. And it was a difficult month for our investing and trading. I expected it to be difficult because the markets rallied too fast and too hard in the previous few months. And if you are subscribed to our newsletter, I wrote in it that I wanted a deeper pullback. Continue reading →

Posted by Martin July 29, 2023

June – July 2023 $100 Challenge account review

Our Challenge account started performing well again. We started the account at the end of the extremely strong bull market in 2021 and then had to ride it through the entire 2022 bear market. That was challenging. We had to close some trades for a loss and pretty much stop trading. We however kept buying Continue reading →

Posted by Martin July 29, 2023

June – July 2023 SPX put credit spreads trading review

I didn’t report June SPX trading as I was busy with other projects. So I am, once again, reporting two months – June and July 2023. As the markets started improving so our trades. We are finally able to eliminate trades that got stuck thanks to the bear market of 2022. And on top of Continue reading →

Posted by Martin July 29, 2023

April – July 2023 HFEA strategy report

Since April our HFEA strategy finally picked up as the markets started rallying and our core SPXL position rallied over 20%. We keep holding our position and keep selling covered calls and put spreads. If the market keeps moving higher, SPXL will follow strongly up. Initially, I dedicated $15,000 to this strategy. That represented approx Continue reading →

Posted by Martin July 29, 2023

July 2023 Investing and Trading Report

July 2023 is over and our investing and trading performed very well again. We added generated options income of $4,484.00 last month. We also added new shares to our portfolio and started consolidating it by increasing cash reserves. Our dividend income was $478.37 last month. Our cash to buying power dropped a bit as we Continue reading →

Posted by Martin July 04, 2023

June 2023 Investing and Trading Report

I can’t believe that another month is behind us again. It was again a successful month to our investing and trading. We added income from options trading of $3,116.00 but we also added new shares to our portfolio and started consolidating it (finally, we started creating cash reserves which were depleted during 2022 bear market). Continue reading →