If you are reading our weekly investing and trading reports, you know that we started trading SSO and SPXL leveraged ETFs to our portfolio. The reason for that was that we wanted to outperfo… Read More
Wow, the end of the month got pretty wacky! We have received news about a new Covid variant and “although experts do not know yet if it will cause more or less severe COVID-19 compared… Read More
November 2021 and the beginning of December 2021 ended up as my worst performance so far. Of course, I can’t expect that our account will go always up only, there will be drawdowns, bu… Read More
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2020 has been an interesting year for us all. It has challenged us in so many ways – from our ideas o… Read More
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Hello and Welcome, to the first Altrui/Apricity Newsletter!
We hope that you are all safe and well during what is proving to be extremely challenging times for everyone. Perhaps you’… Read More
As expected, the December market recovered once the panicking investors realized that the Omicron fear was not justified. Fear of the increased inflation didn’t materialize as inflatio… Read More
December is almost over. The entire year 2021 is almost over. Despite extreme volatility, FED, inflation, fear, I must say, 2021 was an exceptional year for me. This is almost the last inves… Read More
One more week and the year 2021 will be over. So far, it was a very good year investing and trading in dividend growth stocks and options monetizing my positions. This investing and trading… Read More
In mid of November, I added the HFEA strategy to my portfolio. It took me a while to release funds to fund the strategy but at approximately mid of December I dedicated $15,000 (not exactly… Read More
The new year 2022 hasn’t started very well as the FED released its meeting minutes that spooked the markets rushing away from tech stocks. As I will present in this investing and tradi… Read More
I set up my investing and trading goal for 2022 and now is the time to write it down for the record. I plan on having the goal for 2022 simple and easy to track yet it may evolve over time… Read More
The market keeps its choppy trading on fears. Investors are getting rid of the high multiple stocks and with the bathwater, they are pouring out the baby too. The selling had an impact on ou… Read More
I cannot believe that January is over. And it was a horrible month for our HFEA strategy. The HFEA lost ground amidst the selloff. I think it was a rare occurrence as our TMF protection was… Read More
January is over and it was a difficult month for our investing and trading. Our account got slammed a lot but we were not taking any losses. The net-liq was going down as our stock positions… Read More
Last week was truly bad. Our net-liquidating value got hit hard, partially because of buying beaten-down tech stocks like PayPal, Tesla, or Netflix and they got beaten again. But it is a tem… Read More
Last week, the markets were weak on fear of inflation, interest rates, and Russian aggression, and our trading was all about adjusting our existing strangles. But on Thursday and Friday, it… Read More
Last week, the markets trading staged a big reversal, perfectly according to “sell the rumor, buy the news”. When Russians attacked Ukraine, markets finally rallied (no matter ho… Read More
February was not a very good month for the HFEA strategy. We lost a significant amount of money and the reason is that TMF (a bond leveraged ETF) didn’t participate in the market as a… Read More
Another choppy week for our trading and investing. It is becoming frustrating to see the markets going up one day and down the very next day. Our cash was rising the entire week but our opti… Read More
Last week was horrible in the market and it affected our trading negatively. We had to roll many trades for debit to stay safe and it had a negative impact on our options trading. However, w… Read More
A huge reversal in the market or just a noise that will impact our trading more than I would think? This choppy market has already taken a toll on my options income! In order to keep my acco… Read More
The stock market and our trading performed well last week. I am still managing old trades as the damage from the last two months of selling is still present and I have too much buying power… Read More
Our trading performed well last week as our account grew again and our options trading recovered some of the previous losses. Yet we finished March 2022 down as far as options income goes (w… Read More
In March our HFEA strategy continued underperforming thanks to our position in TMF. The bond fund continued struggling. It became a victim of the FED’s tightening and reducing its bond… Read More
Our options trading was slow last week. We just adjusted our trades to keep them safe. Many of these trades were debit trades offsetting the credit ones. However, I was aggressively buying d… Read More
I expected my options trading last week to be a disaster, so I was quite surprised that I could achieve positive returns and brought in over $600 in premiums. Of course, compared to premiums… Read More
Once again I was surprised with our options trading results this week. I expected a positive return but only around $1,000 dollars. So receiving $3,108 in options premiums was a nice surpris… Read More
Our HFEA strategy got a severe beating in April as there was nowhere to hide. Stocks got beaten down as well as bonds. A TMF position that was supposed to protect the account got sold off te… Read More
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
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
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
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
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
The HFEA strategy continued underperforming significantly in May 2022. Our SPXL is down by -34.52% (thanks to options, the loss is only -30.63%), but the biggest surprise was a substantial l… 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
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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
The HFEA strategy improved significantly in June as I continued accumulating SPXL at lows and trimming TMF (at some point I plan on abandoning TMF completely. It didn’t protect my port… 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
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
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
The HFEA strategy continued improving significantly in July. I continued accumulating SPXL at lows and eliminated TMF. Now my strategy will be to accumulate SPXL when the fund drops 25% belo… 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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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
With our HFEA portfolio in 100% of SPXL (a 3x leveraged bullish ETF), the selloff is especially damaging to the portfolio. After recent growth and outperforming the market, the portfolio tur… 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
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
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
The stock market is tanking, which takes a toll on our strategy. We are down again. But this time, the strategy only lost the previous gains, and we are on par with the stock market. I will… Read More