Another nice and interesting ride today in the stock market. After resignation of Gary Cohn from Trump’s administration which was announced yesterday at 5:30 ET the futures at S&P… Read More
Today we saw another fairly large sell off. If we measure it by 2017 market standards of doing pretty much nothing but going up.
Today’s decline was just a… Read More
Recently, a fellow investor and trader asked me the following question:
“I don’t want to trade any longer. It’s not that I don’t have time as I am retired and… Read More
When we broke the resistance level last week and rallied up to 2742 level on Monday, we basically reached my previous rally target.
There fore I added a “buy” signa… Read More
S&P 500 2,779.03 +8.66 (+0.31%) Dow 30 25,316.53 +75.12 (+0.30%) Nasdaq 7,645.51 +10.44 (+0.14%)
May finished so fast! I had a very little time to po… Read More
It is truly stunning how ignorant people are when it comes to stock market and investing.
In many human activities and jobs people usually go and educate themselves before they participate i… Read More
S&P 500 2,901.52 +0.39(+0.01%) Dow 30 25,964.82 -22.10(-0.09%) Nasdaq 8,109.54 +21.17(+0.26%)
August 2018 was a mix bag of goodies and rotten apples… Read More
S&P 500 2,913.98 -0.02(0.00%) Dow 30 26,458.31 +18.38(+0.07%) Nasdaq 8,046.35 +4.38(+0.05%)
September 2018 is over and it is time to report our trad… Read More
IMHO: Using the Stock Market as a measure of our economy distorts what is really going on, because it says nothing about worker income."What’s behind Wednesday’s market sel… Read More
In my last post I wrote about my bullish view expecting the sell off to finally end and the market working on a reversal. The reason for it was a nice and expected bullish candle formed at t… Read More
S&P 500 2,723.06 -17.31(-0.63%) Dow 30 25,270.83 -109.91(-0.43%) Nasdaq 7,356.99 -77.06(-1.04%)
October was a terrific as well as horrible month! To… Read More
S&P 500 2,760.17 +22.41(+0.82%) Dow 30 25,538.46 +199.62(+0.79%) Nasdaq 7,330.54 +7.88(+0.52%)
2018 is going to an end and it is turning out to be a… Read More
S&P 500 2,506.85 -253.32(-9.18) Dow 30 23,327.46 -2,211(-8.66%) Nasdaq 6,635.28 -695.26(-9.48%)
December 2018 passed and it is time to once again pr… Read More
S&P 500 2,706.53 +199.68 (+7.96%) Dow 30 25,063.89 +1,736.43 (+7.44%) Nasdaq 7,263.87 +628.59 (+9.47%)
I just finished reporting December 2018 and w… Read More
The market was doing well in the morning but at about 10 am MT it went into a spiraling selloff. After the fact, the media told us why. Great to know, now I can sleep better. But later on th… Read More
One trading strategy does not work all the time and in every market. There will be time when one strategy stops working and another strategy has to be used while waiting for new opportunity… Read More
After a Friday’s strong rally a week ago the market went up on Monday and then stalled. I mentioned to be cautious although I believed we had room to upwards ①. After that, the m… Read More
Last two weeks I was quite busy over the weekends and had no time to write my overview and expectations. Today, I am going to catch up on this deficit. My goal is to have these reviews on re… Read More
So, I was wrong. Yesterday, I posted my expectation of a measured move. And it failed. Twice the futures tried to set up a pullback, twice that attempt failed and markets finished red. After… Read More
The selloff we just experienced exceeded all my expectations. I do not remember when I saw the market drop more than 3% in two consecutive days. It was amazing! Well, of course, if you forge… Read More
This was hard few weeks on Wall Street with markets flushing out a lot of value over a flue. And yes, I mean it. This is just another version of a flue we know about. Scientists were able to… Read More
I keep struggling with enough cash to invest. I want to invest a lot be buying equities, hold them, collect dividends, and monetize those holdings to generate even more cash. But family life… Read More
Someone asked. He bought 100 shares of SWK (Div Aristocrat, now one of those Kings). Stock was at $173.35 and dropped to $129 and he thought well it is a King, what could go wrong. Continued… Read More
Account Net-Liq: $7,735.95SPX value: 3,380.35Shiller PE: 31.27
This is an entry I wrote into my Trading Journal yesterday about the market behavior:
Are we going to see… Read More
Account Net-Liq: $7,437.20SPX value: 3,479.73Shiller PE: 32.01
I was looking for opportunities where I can store my cash in my trading account in lieu of leaving it in the account, si… Read More
Account Net-Liq: $7,202.95SPX value: 3,455.06Shiller PE: 31.73
The market rallied and reached a 3,588.11 level. All new ATH! Outstanding rally! Unfortunately, that rally was totally u… Read More
The last week of January 2021 is over and it was a hectic week. It was a week that woke up many investors from the lethargy of easy gains. As Danny DeVito says in Other Peoples money: &ldquo… Read More
May 2021 started in a similar manner as the previous months – slowly. We only made about $551 trading options in the first week of May. Honestly, it was a surprise to me as I expected… Read More
Our first week in June 2021 started slowly as we generated $389.00 options income and $59.67 dividend income only. But this week was short and the market sassy, so we waited for it to calm d… Read More
The market didn’t like the FED meeting and what they came up with after they finally admitted that the inflation may not be as transitory as they were trumpeting last few months. In th… Read More
We are in the second week of July 2021. The stock market was volatile a bit when the investors started freaking about a problem that just about two or three weeks ago was no problem at all… Read More
October 2021 has started last week and it started on a good note. Our account has recovered fully and went on a growth mode again. Our net-liquidating value, as you will see in this investin… Read More
Today, Tesla (TSLA) dropped 12% in a sharp and swift selloff that was a continuation from Monday selling. On Monday, TSLA tried to recover, but more bad news came today, and the carnage was… Read More
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
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
Although the year 2021 is over, our Challenge account program’s fiscal year will end in May 2022. We are in month 7 of the program and as you will see below, we are tracking our goal a… Read More
I prepare my newsletter about the market outlook during the week and I wrote this yesterday:
So far, this market has shown weakness. But a few things may turn this around – 4Q earnings… Read More
The first week of 2022 didn’t start well yet our SPX strategy performed satisfactorily last week. FED released its FOMC notes and apparently, the notes said something different than wh… 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
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
After Wednesday’s market selloff we finally got a bounce. This was a second bounce last week. The question is, will a momentum hold followed by a rally – a sustainable rally, or… Read More
Did you join the retail investors today and sold everything? If you are wondering what drove the market today, you no longer have to. It was retail investors according to Blomberg and data f… 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
Apple and Google shined while social media such as Facebook, Snap, and streaming providers like Netflix pooped. These “distractions” providers had something in common: a loss of… 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
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
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
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
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
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