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April trading in our main account ended relatively well compared to the entire market. Our options income ended up, our dividend income also ended up, but our net liquidation value got a sev… Read More
President Biden's Administration on Friday, halted Gov. Brian Kemp’s (R) plan to have the Private Sector, not the Government, engage in Outreach to get State Residents to Sign-Up for I… Read More
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The first week of May trading hasn’t started very well and I have very low expectations for this month. I am a bit skeptical that it would improve. Our buying power is extremely depres… Read More
For 18 weeks ur SPX PCS strategy performed well while the market was selling off. It was not an easy journey this year. When I started this strategy at the end of 2021 I hoped for a better s… Read More
Do you want to save $5000 in 2022? Imagine for a moment, you looked at your savings account on May 8, 2023, and it contained at least $5000? How would you feel? If so, look no further. In t… Read More
This selling is becoming frustrating. Our SPX trading strategy held relatively well, mostly because I didn’t trade much. All I did was sit tight and manage trades that needed adjustmen… Read More
Last week the trading became even worse. Due to volatility in the markets, my margin shrunk to zero… That means I am pretty much in a full cash account unable to trade anything becaus… Read More
I expected 2022 year to be slow and not as profitable trading as 2021 but what is happening this year is outstanding. Nevertheless, our SPX trading is doing well so far although it is very d… Read More
Trading and investing this year were a disaster so far. I think this was the worst year and worst decline I have experienced. The Covid plunge? No problem, I could manage the portfolio well… Read More
Last week I didn’t trade SPX much, just tried to stay afloat. I mostly rolled the trades away and created box trades. That is a trade where a short call has the same strike as the long… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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 Thursda… Read More
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 wate… Read More
The market continues to suck… a lot. But our trading did well last week. Extremely well. We rolled a bunch of trades and made adjustments as needed. We also had many covered calls exp… Read More
Last week, our trading was not as successful as the week before. I still was battling with buying power issues and I had to close many trades early. I was closing them for a profit but small… Read More
Last week’s SPX trading strategy was again mostly about adjusting our old trades than trading new ones. The goal is to let the old trades expire one by one before we resume opening new… Read More
I was aggressively adjusting my SPX trades last week. I was using a “box” trade strategy to generate income and then used that income to roll the trades that were in the money. S… Read More
June 2022 is over and the first half of the year with it. It was a horrible half of the year for trading. Even the 2020 slump was better than this. But I look at it positively and keep inves… Read More
Last week in the markets was calm and that was very positive for our SPX trading. We rolled one trade into a new box and rolled other trades to make them better positioned for expiration thi… Read More
Despite the market selloff of more than 20% this year and my account investments decline, the year 2022 is starting to turn into a good year for our investing and trading. Yes, overall, we a… Read More
Our SPX trading started improving significantly. Our measures of opening box trades delivered enough credits in the past few weeks to offset trades that were deep in trouble. We could roll t… Read More
Last week the stock market eased on the selling pressure, and we were able to increase positions in some of the beaten-down stocks and resume trading and not just adjust the old trades. If t… Read More
Our trading account started growing again, recovering from the bear market losses. Our stock holdings reached the previous highs, partially due to new holdings additions and partially due to… Read More
Last week, the SPX trading improved again. We traded a little last week. We opened new credit spreads and adjusted some older trades only.
Our trading delivered $1,020.00 gain. That b… Read More
I am glad I bought shares of AAPL yesterday and raised my holdings up to 100 shares. Now I will be collecting dividends and premiums from covered calls. I will be wheeling the holdings and c… Read More
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Our SPX trading is improving, and we are slowly returning to regular trading. Yet I am still cautious, keep it slow, and keep my strikes as far away from the market as possible. The market r… Read More
The market responded precisely as I expected. Not sure if it was because of being a TA genius or pure luck. I would guess the latter one. Well, I started using volume profile analysis, and t… Read More
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Last week, I didn’t trade SPX trades much. I only opened two trades and mostly was sitting on my hands waiting for those trades to expire which will be happening next week and two week… Read More
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Faced with rising interest rates and a cooling U.S. economy, the stock market has experienced a significant correction throughout 2022. While investors can view much of this decline as a ret… Read More
Last week’s SPX trading was hectic. I didn’t have much time to record my trades, and trying to record them all today was a huge pain. I did a lot of rolling, some unfortunate and… Read More
I wasn’t trading SPX much last week. After only a few adjustments, but after that, I was just waiting for the expiration. The trades expired on Thursday (based on Friday’s openin… Read More
The market reached its significant resistance at a 200-day moving average, which impacted our trading last week. We made a few adjustments but mostly stayed away from trading.
I still… Read More
Last week I avoided trading as I was traveling. I was however forced to do a few trades. Why forced? It is typically bad to be forced to do trades and they usually end up in losses. But this… Read More
This week’s SPX trading report is easy – I didn’t trade. I didn’t even roll any existing trades but I will do roll next week, or adjust in some way. I was traveling a… Read More
Last week was a disaster to my net-liq, not necessarily trading results as I was able to bring in some cash trading options and dividend income was great too. Bu the open stock and options p… Read More
The sell-off continued last week and that affected performance of our SPX strategy. I did a few trades last week – adjusting one trade by rolling it away using a “box” trad… Read More
As a week ago was a disaster for our trading and investing, it all changed on a dime last week, and we recovered all paper losses. Nevertheless, I was not trading last week. I only adjusted… Read More
Last week the market stopped at 3,900 support, reversed, and started going higher again. That was not good for our SPX trading as I was preparing for more selling opening credit call spreads… Read More
A long straddle is an options trading strategy that involves buying a call and a put option with the same strike price and expiration date. The trade is profitable if the underlying asset&rs… Read More
Last week was brutal. SPX lost over 4.7% and many of our SPX trades that were bullish are underwater again. I reversed trading to credit call spreads instead and try to manage the open trade… Read More
Another bad week for our portfolio. It dropped 12% again last week. But as you will see below, it is just paper losses. I didn’t sell any of my positions and in fact, I bought a few mo… Read More
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I didn’t have much time to report a trading a week ago as I was traveling. Fortunately, I could manage the trades. When preparing today’s report on our SPX trading, I was surpris… Read More
For most asset classes, trading volatility is relatively straightforward. All it takes is to observe the asset’s price change over time and determine a suitable buy point and sell poin… Read More
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