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2022 SPX put credit spreads trading review – week 24

Trading SPX strategy is challenging this year and very frustrating. I am not opening any new trades but managing the old ones as I got caught with those trades rapidly getting under the water. Should I have closed those trades for a loss? Some traders would. I have a loss aversion, so I decided to postpone the trades by moving them far away using a “box” strategy (Iron Fly). It costs very little buying power, and it offsets the losing trade. I buy time for a better opportunity to adjust the trade.

And rolling and adjusting the trades delivered $1,615.00 income last week. That brought our account up by +9.34% while SPX lost additional -5.79%.

Overall, the SPX account is up +425.19% since the beginning of this program, and we have $21,805 in unrealized gains. But there is no time to party over this result. We have plenty of “box” trades, which are difficult to manage. The box must be managed at some point as it is not a winning trade. It helps to buy time, but later, one or the other side must be adjusted. No matter where the market goes, the box will be a losing trade.

Initial trade set ups

For my SPX strategy, I dedicated a $3,600 initial amount that will be used to trade SPX PCS strategy per week. If this amount is depleted, I will evaluate the strategy to determine whether to continue or change it. If I grow this amount, I will scale up the trading.

WHAT WILL WE TRADE?
DAY	DTE	TYPE
MONDAY	7 DTE & 40 delta	10 wide Put Credit Spread
TUESDAY	30 DTE & 40 delta	10 wide Put Credit Spread
WEDNESDAY	7 DTE & 40 delta	10 wide Put Credit Spread
FRIDAY	60 DTE & 14 delta	10 wide Put Credit Spread
EVERY MONTH	120 DTE	Put Debit Spread – HEDGE

Our SPX strategy is designed as a directional options trading. We are selling credit put spreads to collect premiums, and hopefully, these spreads expire worthlessly, or we repurchase them for a small debit.

We use a set of indicators (primarily based on moving averages) and market sentiment that generates bullish signals. The trading is based on a “trend following strategy.” If we have a bullish signal and bullish trend, we open the trade. If we do not have a signal, we stay away.

We set the set of rules and alerts and backtested them. The backtesting software proved that the strategy was viable and returned good gains. We also tried to automate the decision-making as much as possible to have the trading as mechanical as possible. This helps eliminate our emotions. The decision-making was reduced to: “bullish signal present” – open a trade, “not present” – stay away. it worked well.

Then 2022 came and put this strategy to a stiff test. The signals worked well, but we had old trades that got busted and didn’t have time to perform. So I had to evaluate the strategy. The original strategy was to let the trade expire in the money and take a loss. But I didn’t like it. I tested an option of rolling the trade rather than letting it be, and I feel much more comfortable with that.

Rolling a trade is still a losing trade because we close the old trade for a loss and open a new trade for a credit that partially offsets the loss. We also add a credit call spread or widen the put spread to get more credit. I believe that managing these trades and offsetting them with an opposite, adjusted, or new trade will result in fewer losses and more considerable gains. And so far, this strategy works.

Here you can see all our trades:

Click on the picture above to see the entire list.

We do not trade 0 DTE trades. This strategy is designed to be as passive as possible. You open a trade and let it run. You do not need to be glued to the computer all the time. The strategy takes advantage of the market’s historical behavior of mainly going up. Yes, there will be selloffs and corrections, even bear markets, but over time, it goes up. And therefore, our strategy is designed for this direction. The premise is that if we have a bullish trend, we open a bullish spread and let it run. 80% or 90% of the time, it will be a winning trade. And if the trend is strong, we open more aggressive trades (which is not the case today due to the market’s correction).

How much money can you trade?

As you can see in the table below, the highest amount of cash to trade this strategy is $19,995.00. That will allow adjustments, rolls, and comfortable trading without blowing your account. Can you trade less? Well, yes, I started with a $3,600 initial amount. But you need to be selective. You won’t trade all trades. You just trade the safest trades only (which is the Friday trade), especially in this market, and when the market gets out of this mess, you can start adding trades. And you do not compound. You must wait for the actual trade to end before opening a new trade. This way, the growth will be a lot slower, and you collect less credit, but you do not blow your account, mainly when you need to roll. You do not have money to do that (as the old busted trade will need more buying power which can be reduced by adding an offsetting trade that neutralizes the old trade, but you still will need that initial buying power).

Last week trading

Overall, the strategy resulted in a +425.19% gain last week.

Initial account value (since inception: 12/07/2021):	$3,600.00
Last week beginning value:	$17,291.95
Last week ending value:	$17,291.95 (+9.34%; total: +425.19%)
The highest capital requirements to trade this strategy:	$19,995
Current capital at risk:	$8,195
Unrealized Gain:	$21,805 (+266.08%)
Realized Gain:	-$2,983 (-36.40%)
Total Gain:	$18,822 (+229.68%)
Win Ratio:	62%
Average Winner:	$251
Average Loser:	$476

SPX PCS account value

Our SPX net-liq increased last week. The market is volatile and selling too much, and because of that, I am reducing our trading activity to just adjusting our existing trades.

SPX PCS account vs SPX index net liq

Our account is growing while the entire market was struggling, even though last week SPX grew faster than our account. I am looking forward to this selling to end and the market resuming its bullish uptrend. We will be able to get into the more aggressive trades and boost our income significantly.

SPX PCS account vs SPX index

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2022 Week 22-23 investing and trading report

Any positive expectations from the last few weeks just vanished, yet our trading and investing performed well last two weeks. The market was up and in a consolidation pattern, but on Thursday, investors started selling equities in expectation of bad inflation data. On Friday, we got bad data, and the market puked even more. Our options trading was outstanding. We erased all May losses and ended the month in green. Yet our net-liq lost value due to the market’s losses. I expect these losses to be temporary. Even if we go into recession, this market will not stay down forever. It may be down for a year or two (or even more), but I do not care. My stocks will keep paying me dividends, and I will keep selling options around those positions generating more income and buying more shares.

I am still frustrated with my buying power fluctuation. I have enough cash, and I have tons of equities, yet my BP is negative:

The chart above starts showing a bigger picture of the relation between my net-liquidating value and cash. As the two lines get closer together, it indicates that my margin is narrowing and my account is becoming a cash account. To keep my account floating above the water, I keep adjusting my open options trades to keep my buying power positive. This time, I could manage to roll my trades for credit.

These credit trades delivered $15,430.00 premiums last week ending May 2022. Our net-liq value went up by +11.32% last week and overall account is down -27.36% YTD. I hope, that when the market reverses and starts trading up again, this will change.

Here is our investing and trading report:

Account Value:	$76,011.53	-$7,684.54	-10.11%
Options trading results
Options Premiums Received:	+$15,430.00
01 January 2022 Options:	$8,885.00	+8.36%
02 February 2022 Options:	$10,009.00	+10.34%
03 March 2022 Options:	-$1,662.00	-1.47%
04 April 2022 Options:	$1,047.00	+1.19%
05 May 2022 Options:	+$8,604.00	+11.32%
06 June 2022 Options:	-$1,711.00	-2.25%
Options Premiums YTD:	$25,172.00	+33.12%
Dividend income results
Dividends Received:	$320.44
01 January 2022 Dividends:	$303.38
02 February 2022 Dividends:	$732.81
03 March 2022 Dividends:	$393.74
04 April 2022 Dividends:	$337.31
05 May 2022 Dividends:	$343.99
06 June 2022 Dividends:	$196.65
Dividends YTD:	$2,307.88
Portfolio Equity
Portfolio Equity:	$130,821.93	-$8,958.07	-6.41%
Portfolio metrics
Portfolio Yield:	5.77%
Portfolio Dividend Growth:	11.97%
Ann. Div Income & YOC in 10 yrs:	$67,917.98	43.81%
Ann. Div Income & YOC in 20 yrs:	$3,119,704.74	2,012.20%
Ann. Div Income & YOC in 25 yrs:	$77,884,725.86	50,235.42%
Ann. Div Income & YOC in 30 yrs:	$7,548,283,058.87	4,868,620.24%
Portfolio Alpha:	26.76%
Sharpe Ratio:	5.76	EXCELLENT
Portfolio Weighted Beta:	0.59
CAGR:	366.40%
AROC:	23.40%
TROC:	13.23%
Our 2022 Goal
2022 Dividend Goal:	$4,800.00	48.08%	In Progress
2022 Portfolio Value Goal:	$151,638.03	50.13%	In Progress
6-year Portfolio Value Goal:	$175,000.00	43.44%	In Progress
10-year Portfolio Value Goal:	$1,000,000.00	7.60%	In Progress

Dividend Investing and Trading Report

Last week we have received $320.44 in dividends bringing our May’s dividend income at $343.99. That is slightly below my expectations.

Last week, we bought these dividend growth stocks:

– 5 shares of IEP @ $51.23

I wish I could buy more stocks, but my buying power is so depressed that I have to wait for my broker to start releasing the margin and my cash. It should start happening shortly.

Here is a chart of our account equity showing our accumulation goal and the value of all stocks in our account. It shows a nice upward-sloping chart as our equities grow. This is a result of our options trading and using premiums to buy dividend stocks:

And here you can see the dividend income those equities pay us every year:

Growth stocks Investing and Trading Report

Last week, we purchased no growth stocks.

Options Investing and Trading Report

Last week we rolled our strangle trades to keep our account safe. Some of those rolls could have been avoided if I had enough cash reserves.

However, these adjustments delivered a gain of $15,430.00 making our May options income +$8,604.00. The beginning of June sits at a loss of -$1,711.00 premiums so far.

We were actively trading our SPX strategy that delivered $6,950.00 gain.

You can watch all our trades in this spreadsheet. You can watch the spreadsheet and look for a “NEW” indication next to the trading date. When the indicator shows up, it is typically good for up to 3 days to follow that trade.

Expected Future Dividend Income

We have received $320.44 in dividends last week. Our portfolio currently yields 5.77% at $76,011.53 market value.

Our projected annual dividend income in 10 years is $67,917.98 but that projection is if we do absolutely nothing and let our positions grow on their own without adding new positions or reinvesting the dividends.

We are also set to receive a $5,898.78 annual dividend income ($491.57 monthly income). We are 8.69% of our 10 year goal of $67,917.98 dividend income.

The chart above shows how our future dividend income is based on the future yield on cost and what dividend income we may expect in the future. The expected dividend growth depends on what stocks we add to our portfolio and the stocks’ 3 years average dividend growth rate. It is interesting to see what passive income we may enjoy 10, 20, 25, or 30 years from now.

Market value of our holdings

Our non-adjusted stock holdings market value decreased from $139,780.89 to $130,821.93 last week.

In 2022 we plan on accumulating dividend stocks, monetizing these positions, HFEA strategy, and SPX trading. We plan on raising more of our holdings to 100 shares so we can start selling covered calls. We continued rebalancing our options trades that released buying power significantly. That allowed us to start buying shares of our interest again.

We aim to accumulate 100 shares of dividend growth stocks we like and then start selling covered calls or strangles around those positions. We also planned on reinvesting all dividends back into those holdings.

Investing and trading ROI

Our options trading delivered a +11.32% monthly ROI in May 2022, totaling a 33.12% ROI YTD. We hope that in 2022 we exceed our 45% annual revenue selling options against dividend stocks target, although as of today, we are getting way behind this goal and it seems we will not achieve it at all.

Our entire account is down -27.36%.

Our options trading averaged $4,195.33 per month this year. If this trend continues, we are on track to make $50,344.00 trading options in 2022. As of today, we have made $25,172.00 trading options.

Old SPX trades repair

Last week we did not adjust any of our old trades. The market is playing with me. When all the ods looked good, and I had a chance to get rid of one bad trade, the market tanked, ruining my chance to improve the position. Now I am back at the beginning of my attempt to fix the old trade.

We however traded our SPX put credit spread strategy which you will be able to review in my next report. The SPX strategy held well so far, and our signals kept us away from opening new aggressive trades.

Investing and trading report in charts

Account Net-Liq

Account Stocks holding

Last week, S&P 500 grew 34.85% since we opened our portfolio while our portfolio grew 4.80%. On YTD basis, the S&P 500 fell -29.91% and our portfolio -24.98%. We are outperforming the market.

The numbers above apply to our stock holdings only. Our overall account net-liq is down by -27.36% this year.

Stock holdings Growth YTD

Our stock holdings are starting to outperform the market. Hopefully, this trend will stay, and we will be doing better than S&P 500 constantly.

Our 10-year goal is to grow this account to $1,000,000.00 value in ten years. We are in year two and we accomplished 7.60% of that goal.

Our 6-year goal is to reach $175,000 account value to be eligible for portfolio margin (PM) and today we accomplished 43.44% of that goal.

Our 2022 year goal is to grow this account to a $151,638.03 and today we accomplished 50.13% of this goal.

Investing and Trading Report – Options Monthly Income

Investing and Trading Report – Options Annual Income

Our dividend goal and future dividends

We plan to make $4,800.00 in dividend income in 2022. As of today, we received $2,307.88. This is in line with our projected dividend 2022 goal. We also accumulated enough shares to start making $5,898.78 a year.

Our account cumulative return

The chart below indicates our cumulative adjusted return since we started tracking this metric.

Here is the cumulative return for the year 2022:

Our win ratio overall:

Our win ratio for 2022:

As of today, our account overall cumulative return is -31.78% (note, data in this section are since March 13, 2021, only as that is the date we started tracking these metrics). Our 2022 cumulative return is -53.79%. That means we erased the entire 2021 revenue. That is a horrible result. But I am optimistic. As I mentioned above, the results are temporary as we are rolling our trades, and these rolls cause realized losses while we have open unrealized gains. Once the open trades end (when this horrible market finally calms down), the gains will offset the losses.

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2022 SPX put credit spreads trading review – week 22-23

My family and I went on a vacation a week ago, so I skipped the SPX report a week ago. This report will be a combination of both weeks.

Surprisingly, the trading week ago and last week were not as bad as I thought they would be. We managed to roll the trades, and in fact, we brought in more credit than I expected.

Our strategy works and we could deliver $6,950.00 income in last two weeks. That brought our account up by +67.20% while SPX lost -6.19%.

Overall, the SPX account is up +393.67% since the beginning of this program, and we have $19,450 in unrealized gains.

We also had a trade that expired in the money (tomorrow) that we didn’t offset by a new box. We will do that next week, though.

Initial trade set ups

WHAT WILL WE TRADE?
DAY	DTE	TYPE
MONDAY	7 DTE & 40 delta	10 wide Put Credit Spread
TUESDAY	30 DTE & 40 delta	10 wide Put Credit Spread
WEDNESDAY	7 DTE & 40 delta	10 wide Put Credit Spread
FRIDAY	60 DTE & 14 delta	10 wide Put Credit Spread
EVERY MONTH	120 DTE	Put Debit Spread – HEDGE

Our SPX strategy is designed as a directional options trading. We are selling credit put spreads to collect premiums and hopefully, these spreads expire worthlessly or we buy them back for a small debit.

We use a set of indicators (mostly based on moving averages) and market sentiment that generates bullish signals. The trading is based on a “trend following strategy”. If we have a bullish signal and bullish trend, we open the trade. If we do not have a signal, we stay away.

Then 2022 year came and put this strategy to a hard test in the violent market. The signals worked well, but we had old trades that got busted and didn’t have time to perform. So I had to evaluate the strategy. The original strategy was based on letting the trade expire in the money and take a loss. But I didn’t like it. I tested an option of rolling the trade rather than letting it be and I feel a lot more comfortable with that.

Rolling a trade is still a losing trade because we close the old trade for a loss and open a new trade for a credit that partially offsets the loss. We also add a credit call spread or widen the put spread to get more credit. I believe by managing these trades and offsetting them with an opposite, adjusted, or new trade will result in fewer losses and larger gains. And so far, this strategy works.

Here you can see all our trades:

Click on the picture above to see the entire list.

We do not trade 0 DTE trades. This strategy is designed to be as passive as possible. You open a trade and let it run. You do not need to be glued to the computer all the time. The strategy takes advantage of the market’s historical behavior of going mostly up. Yes, there will be selloffs and corrections, even bear markets, but over time, it goes up. And therefore our strategy is designed for this direction. The premise is that if we have a bullish trend, we open a bullish spread and let it run. 80% or 90% of the time, it will be a winning trade. And if the trend is strong, we even open more aggressive trades (which is not the case today due to the market’s correction).

How much money can you trade?

As you can see in the table below, the highest amount of cash to trade this strategy is $19,995.00. That will allow for all adjustments, rolls, and comfortable trading without blowing your account. Can you trade less? Well, yes, I started with a $3,600 initial amount. But you need to be selective. You won’t trade all trades. You just trade the safest trades only (which is the Friday trade), especially in this market, and when the market gets out of this mess, you can start adding trades. And you do not compound. You must wait for the actual trade to end before opening a new trade. This way, the growth will be a lot slower, and you collect less credit, but you do not blow your account, mainly when you need to roll. You do not have money to do that (as the old busted trade will need more buying power which can be reduced by adding an offsetting trade that neutralizes the old trade, but you still will need that initial buying power).

Last week trading

Overall, the strategy resulted in a +393.67% gain last week.

Initial account value (since inception: 12/07/2021):	$3,600.00
Last week beginning value:	$10,341.95
Last week ending value:	$17,291.95 (+67.20%; total: +393.67%)
The highest capital requirements to trade this strategy:	$19,995
Current capital at risk:	$8,550
Unrealized Gain:	$19,450 (+227.49%)
Realized Gain:	-$1,593 (-18.63%)
Total Gain:	$17,857 (+208.85%)
Win Ratio:	63%
Average Winner:	$250
Average Loser:	$469

SPX PCS account value

Our SPX net-liq increased significantly last week. The market is volatile and selling too much, and because of that, I am reducing our trading activity to just adjusting our existing trades.

SPX PCS account vs SPX index

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May 2022 $100 Challenge account review

The market is not good for our Challenge account so far. We started aggressively and had to scale down significantly when the valuation reset hit Wall Street. We are significantly down now, but setbacks are part of any trading & investing.

This is a long-term investing and trading program, and we are determined to invest as per the selected strategy – accumulate assets and monetize them. The goal is to accumulate dividend stocks and sell options around the positions. But we also want to sell options to generate income that can be used to buy more assets. Since our account is tiny and the market is not friendly for small accounts now. With all the recession talks, fear, and extreme volatility – the small accounts can be wiped out easily. That is why we are not trading options in this market yet but only accumulating assets.

Some investors may be impatient, and they want to trade. But believe me, if you do not have large enough capital, trading can be challenging. We have already lost gains and money so far in this program, going way too aggressively on trading with small capital. But we have time on our side, and we will rebuild the account over time. We are already accumulating assets that will help us to achieve that goal.

That’s why in May 2022, we also didn’t trade, as the stock market is still in a bear market, and no one knows when this will stop. But once we turn bullish again, we will adjust our strategy too. Now we are sitting back, depositing cash as per the plan, and buying stocks.

First year of the Challenge program

May 2022 was the last month of the first year of this program. Nine more months to come. The first year finished down, significantly outperforming our goal and benchmark. But I expect this to change with the market and the market’s mood.

We were supposed to finish the first year with a $1,336 Net-liq value. We ended with a $428.82 value.

We are entering a second year, and I expect this new year of our program to be better than the last one.

Accumulation phase

The account is underperforming our goal. We will be investing in building equity positions first and wheeling the positions in June and subsequent months.

May 2022 Challenge account review

MONTH	GOAL $$	ACTUAL $$
June 2021:	$203.00	$202.67
July 2021:	$306.00	$334.75
August 2021:	$409.00	$397.71
September 2021:	$512.00	$476.91
October 2021:	$615.00	$632.37
November 2021:	$718.00	$659.00
December 2021:	$821.00	$802.08
January 2022:	$924.00	$594.29
February 2022:	$1,027.00	$283.87
March 2022:	$1,130.00	$301.74
April 2022:	$1,233.00	$350.56
May 2022:	$1,336.00	$428.82

From the chart above, the red dot (line) indicates the current account value, compared to the blue line (plan). Our account is underperforming our goal. But I expect this to improve with the market. We will keep buying assets and monetize them once we accumulate enough shares.

April 2022 Overall Challenge account review

The chart below indicates our account value compared to the overall goal and plans to grow the $100 investment into a $75,000 portfolio. As of today, we are still at the beginning of our journey.

YEAR	CONTRIBUTIONS $$	GOAL $$	ACTUAL $$
Year 0:	$100.00	$100.00	$100.00
Year 1:	$1,300.00	$1,336.00	$428.82
Year 2:	$2,500.00	$3,016.96
Year 3:	$3,700.00	$5,303.07
Year 4:	$4,900.00	$8,412.17
Year 5:	$6,100.00	$12,640.55
Year 6:	$7,300.00	$18,391.15
Year 7:	$8,500.00	$26,211.96
Year 8:	$9,700.00	$36,848.27
Year 9:	$10,900.00	$51,313.64
Year 10:	$12,100.00	$70,986.56

April 2022 Challenge account Income

Total Invested in Stocks	$595.24
Total Unrealized Profit	-$116.35
Total Realized Profit	$12.83
Strangles Income	-$1,316.00
Dividends Income	$21.88
Deposits Total	$1300.00
Cash	$1.44
Net-Liq	$480.33

Cumulative return Challenge account review

As of today, our challenge account provided a -86.06% monthly cumulative return.

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2022 Week 21 investing and trading report

Is the market finally turning around so that our trading and investing can improve? It was a disaster so far. I constantly battle with buying power and it makes me very angry. As I mentioned before, I have $60,000 in cash but constantly no buying power. Here is a track of my net-liquidating value, buying power, and cash:

I understand that the volatility is still elevated and that puts pressure on the stocks in my portfolio as well as options trades but I don’t understand why my net-liq is $80k, cash is $60k, and my stocks market value is $132k and yet I do not have the cash to trade! I asked my broker for some explanation and they were clueless.

This makes me constantly adjust my options trades to keep my buying power positive. And this is extremely frustrating as well as costly as I no longer can adjust for credit but must do so for debit.

These debit trades cost me another -$703.00 last week. Our net-liq value went up by +7.52% last week and overall account is down -20.02% YTD. I hope, that when the market reverses and starts trading up again, this will change.

Here is our investing and trading report:

Account Value:	$83,696.07	+$6,296.67	+7.52%
Options trading results
Options Premiums Received:	-$703.00
01 January 2022 Options:	$8,885.00	+8.36%
02 February 2022 Options:	$10,009.00	+10.34%
03 March 2022 Options:	-$1,662.00	-1.47%
04 April 2022 Options:	$1,047.00	+1.19%
05 May 2022 Options:	-$7,529.00	-8.82%
Options Premiums YTD:	$10,750.00	+12.84%
Dividend income results
Dividends Received:	$0.00
01 January 2022 Dividends:	$303.38
02 February 2022 Dividends:	$732.81
03 March 2022 Dividends:	$393.74
04 April 2022 Dividends:	$337.31
05 May 2022 Dividends:	$220.20
Dividends YTD:	$1,987.44
Portfolio metrics
Portfolio Yield:	5.58%
Portfolio Dividend Growth:	11.61%
Ann. Div Income & YOC in 10 yrs:	$59,940.92	39.24%
Ann. Div Income & YOC in 20 yrs:	$2,205,576.56	1,443.96%
Ann. Div Income & YOC in 25 yrs:	$43,885,453.67	28,731.12%
Ann. Div Income & YOC in 30 yrs:	$3,019,638,826.54	1,976,910.41%
Portfolio Alpha:	6.78%
Sharpe Ratio:	3.04	EXCELLENT
Portfolio Weighted Beta:	0.56
CAGR:	389.97%
AROC:	12.43%
TROC:	14.44%
Our 2022 Goal
2022 Dividend Goal:	$4,800.00	41.41%	In Progress
2022 Portfolio Value Goal:	$151,638.03	55.19%	In Progress
6-year Portfolio Value Goal:	$175,000.00	47.83%	In Progress
10-year Portfolio Value Goal:	$1,000,000.00	8.37%	In Progress

Dividend Investing and Trading Report

Last week we have received $0.00 in dividends bringing our May’s dividend income at $220.20. That is well below my expectations. Maybe, there will be more payments coming by the end of the month next week (2 days?) but I doubt it.

Last week, we bought these dividend growth stocks:

– 20 shares of TRIN @ $15.22
– 3 shares of BAC @ $35.56

I wish I could buy more stocks but my buying power is so depressed that I have to wait for my broker to start releasing the margin and my cash. It should start happening shortly.

Here you can see our dividend income per stock holding:

Growth stocks Investing and Trading Report

Last week we bought the following growth stocks and funds:

2 share of SPXL @ $76.77
I keep buying SPXL when it is very undervalued. My reason is that it should grow faster than the market when the market finally reverses and goes up. And I will keep buying when the price of the fund is under my cost basis. I will stop buying when the price gets above my cost basis, and when the gains reach 50% I will start trimming the position.
100 shares of SNOW @ $285.00 (I was assigned to these shares but I do not have cash to cover the purchase. Fortunately, this was a spread so next week I will assign my long put to sell the shares (or sell the shares and the put at the same time).
10 shares of TQQQ @ $27.72
I have similar reasons for buying the TQQQ position. I think it is time to start accumulating growth NASDAQ stocks and I decided to use TQQQ leveraged ETF to grow up faster than the index.

Options Investing and Trading Report

Last week we rolled our strangle trades to keep our account safe. Some of those rolls could have been avoided if I had enough cash reserves.

However, these adjustments delivered a loss of -$703.00 making our May options income -$7,529.00.

We were actively trading our SPX strategy that delivered $90.00 gain.

Expected Future Dividend Income

We have received $0.00 in dividends last week. Our portfolio currently yields 5.58% at $83,696.07 market value.

Our projected annual dividend income in 10 years is $59,940.92 but that projection is if we do absolutely nothing and let our positions grow on their own without adding new positions or reinvesting the dividends.

We are also set to receive a $5,917.86 annual dividend income ($493.16 monthly income). We are 9.87% of our 10 year goal of $59,940.92 dividend income.

The chart above shows how our future dividend income is based on the future yield on cost and what dividend income we may expect in the future. The expected dividend growth depends on what stocks we are adding to our portfolio and the stocks’ 3 years average dividend growth rate. It is interesting to see what passive income we may enjoy 10, 20, 25, or 30 years from now.

Market value of our holdings

Our non-adjusted stock holdings market value increased from $132,071.97 to $139,780.89 last week.

Our goal is to accumulate 100 shares of dividend growth stocks we liked and then start selling covered calls or strangles around those positions. We also planned on reinvesting all dividends back into those holdings.

Investing and trading ROI

Our options trading delivered a -9.00% monthly ROI in May 2022, totaling a 12.84% ROI YTD. We hope that in 2022 we exceed our 45% annual revenue selling options against dividend stocks target, although as of today, we are getting way behind this goal and it seems we will not achieve it at all.

Our entire account is down -20.02%.

Our options trading averaged $2,150.00 per month this year. If this trend continues, we are on track to make $25,800.00 trading options in 2022. As of today, we have made $10,750.00 trading options.

Old SPX trades repair

Last week we have not adjusted any of our old trades. The market is playing with me. When all the ods looked good and I had a chance to get rid of one bad trade, the market tanked ruining my chance to improve the position. Now I am back at the beginning of my attempt to fix the old trade.