This trade was inspired by my fellow blogger Integrator from the blog Get financially Integrated! and his latest article at Seeking Alpha “My Dividend Portfolio: Evaluating AT&T“. He is evaluating the AT&T (T) stock in his article concluding that the stock didn’t drop low enough for him to be buying this stock although the recent Continue reading →
As I announced on Twitter and Facebook page on Friday I planned opening new options trades on my favorite stocks – Safeway and Corning Int. (GLW). Both companies pay dividends, have grown them for several years and I am OK owning the stocks in case I get exercised. That’s the beauty of put selling strategy Continue reading →
Tomorrow is expiration Friday. My favorite day. Tomorrow I will officially collect my gains. Although I collected them physically a few months ago when I opened my options trades, those gains were still in jeopardy of being wiped out. Tomorrow those gains will be mine forever. (MORE: Options Assignment – Southern Company (SO)) Continue reading →
I opened a new trade against TASR last week on October 24th. The main reason was that: I like the stock and their product. I am OK to own the stock. I believe it has a good growth potential I want to generate income before I buy it. TASR manufactures tasers, you know those fake Continue reading →
Almost a month ago I opened this put selling trade against Safeway , see the trade here, and I wanted to be conservative since the stock ran up too much and I was expecting drop. I still am expecting it, so I may continue in being conservative when selecting my next trade. Well, this option Continue reading →
Realty Income stock was among REITs companies beaten down recently and that is a reason for me buying shares of this company but recently I decided to take a few option trades on the paper. I believe the sell off of this company isn’t deserved. If all the sell off of REITs these days is Continue reading →
My previous put selling trade on Ferrellgas Partners LP (see the trade here) expired worthless for full profit last Friday. I still like the stock and decided to continue selling puts against it. As I wrote in my previous article about selling puts, you should do it only against stocks, you like to own. When Continue reading →
Today is expiration Friday and a few of my options trades are closing with full profit: Realty Income (O) covered call – cash received $32.21 0.77% gain 15.88% annualized See the original trade here. Ferrellgas Partners LP (FGP) put selling – cash received $185.00 10.57% gain 22.06% annualized See the original trade here. MBIA Inc Continue reading →
I was so excited writing about my reasons why I no longer wanted to invest in ARR or trade its options that I forgot to mention how my trade went wrong. So this is an update to my previous post. I closed this trade with -10.56% (loss) or -46.55% annual loss. On this trade I Continue reading →
I decided to take a loss at my Armour residential put selling trade. Originally I believed in this stock, but lately I consider Armour residential a junk every dividend investor should avoid. There is plenty of investor out there I could see who think this stock is a great value because of its book value Continue reading →
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