Blog Archive: December 2021
An ex-pat living in Georgia since 2011, I trade stocks, take photographs, work out at the gym, and many more. Here I write about travel, finance, and other things that might interest me.
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$4,729 Options Income in 165 days
Back on July 19, 2021, I decided to close all my existing positions with LYNX Broker (Interactive Brokers) and start fresh. After closing all positions and selling off all stock I was left with little more than EUR 8,000. 165 days later on December 31, 2021, I can report $4,729 options income, which translates to about $28.66 daily. At the start of 2021, I was looking to take about $40,000 in options income for the whole year of 2021. Well…
Invest in Dairy Farms in Georgia
Good morning! While browsing my Facebook feed I noticed some opportunities to invest in the agriculture sector in Georgia. I got sold by the information that Imereti Agro Zone is planning to build some 125 ha dairy farm near Tskaltubo IAZ is planning to develop a Dairy Farm on a 125 ha land plot. The goal of the project is to support Kopitnari IDP settlement and Partskhanakanevi inhabitants in developing and organizing a modern, self-…
Paint job for Bedroom and Kitchen
Today early morning I checked out of the lovely Šaha klubs apartments in Kuldīga to come and paint our Vilgāle apt. While driving to Vilgāle my fiance proposed we could prebook such lovely apartments in Kuldīga for the Summer Festival - I had to reply, well we have Vilgāle, huh? arriving early I started applying second layer of paint in the bedroom, here is what I got Next is to install electricity plugs and lamps, add hardwood floring More…
Paint Job at Vilgāle apt
It is already more than one year since I first opened doors at the Vilgāle apt and saw what have I bought at an online auction. during the past year, we have done a lot, removed walls, floors, built new walls, ceilings, and even floors. Now we are very close to the last details, from the major works are left the bathroom with sauna (tiles) and hardwood flooring. At the end of December 2021, I visited Latvia for about 2 weeks and I decided it'…
Can You Instagram 365 days in a row?
I love challenges and just now I have launched another one - Can You Instagram 365 days in a row? Turns out I've been an active user of Instagram for some 7-8 years, but I have never gotten what's the use of it, except posting nicely looking photos? A few days ago I started to watch the Netflix series - Emily in Paris and I thought cool - I can do this or at least I could try to get this by launching another cool 365 days challenge. I…
Holiday Season
The holiday season in Tbilisi - or another awesome weekend has been recorded and sealed in our tapes - Fun at Tbilisi Golf club, picnic in the footsteps of Shavnabada monastery, and Christmas pre-party with Latvian Sunday School. Ho-Ho-Ho! Enjoy and thumbs up!
Meeting more Latvian Expats at Āgenskalna market
After the strange yesterday, it was agreed to go and support my new German friend at the Āgenskalns market and buy some cheese. Leo, an old friend from the Bākūži times offered to go to the Āgenskalns market together. He pick-up us from Pulkveža Brieža street and we went there together. I asked, could Leo also take some ax or some other tool so we can cut a Christmas tree somewhere near Lāči bakery. Leo took both an ax and a Fiskar tool. At…
Strange Day during the snowfall
A few weeks ago Steffen contacted me about some things in Georgia. Turned out this German had some business in Latvia and while I was for a couple of days in Riga, he contacted me again and offered a handy hand at painting ceilings at Vilgale apartment. Why not, I thought and for the first time, we met at the Virši petrol station near Tukums roundabout at the noon on this snowy December day. Yes, it snowed a lot, even some kind of Orange…
Stopping Buying Dividend Stocks to Beef Up Cash Balance 2
I have decided to pause buying new dividend (or any other) stock until will decrease my negative cash balance down to -EUR 10,000. Today my cash balance is standing at -EUR 11,911. With the recent market volatility (omricon and Fed rates) it might seem like a great buying time, but I have decided to grow back some cash balance, wait for some options to expire, roll bad ones, keep selling covered calls, and deposit additional cash until I will…
Waiting for Santa's Rally
For the past couple of weeks, I've been waiting for Santa's relief rally in the stock market, and especially hoping for it this week. Tonight we arrived from Tbilisi to Riga and I hoped for a nice and calm session in the stock market, but nope it didn't happen and again I'm pushed out, facing possible margin calls. Looking to find additional funds to deposit to avoid margin calls in my brokerage account. Lately, I've been troubled with too…
Sold AAPL stock to decrease negative cash balance and avoid margin call
Wow, it happened earlier than I thought. Just a few days ago I announced that to avoid possible margin calls in the future I'm stopping buying dividend-paying stock until I will decrease my negative cash balance to -EUR 12,000 With the recent sell of in tech stocks I did almost face a margin call today, to avoid it, I decided to sell of all 16 shares with AAPL stock I had to free up my margin and decrease negative cash balance. I started…
Got a Fewer After freezing Cold
For the last few days I have been exceling as an painter at my better part's Tbilisi Office. Yestwrday I decided to stay longer and finish most of the job, and by doing this at the end of the day I couldn't get a taxi on time and got cold on the street. Once the taxi arrived after some 40 minutes on busy Chavvhavadze Street I felt very sick and cold. In the evening my temperature raised to 38.8 and I had a fewer. Now I feel already much…
Stopping Buying Dividend Stocks to Beef Up Cash Balance
I have decided to pause buying new dividend (or any other) stock until will decrease my negative cash balance down to -EUR 12,000. Today my cash balance is standing at -EUR 13,324. With the recent market volatility (omricon and Fed rates) it might seem like a great buying time, but I have decided to grow back some cash balance, wait for some options to expire, roll bad ones, keep selling covered calls, and deposit additional cash until I will…
Paint Job for Tbilisi Office 3.0 Part 1
At the start of December 2021, my better part decided its time to upgrade her company office to a more spacious and one. The new office is located just a few hundred meters away from the previous one, but unlike the previous one, the new office actually come a bit outworn and was screaming for a fresh paint job. At the start it was decided to hire a designer who would plan the new office, make designs for painting, and actually hire…
Shavnabada Monastery
Shavnabada Monastery is a medieval Georgian Orthodox monastic complex that is located upon Shavnabada Mountain, approximately 30 km away from Tbilisi, Georgia. I have noticed this monastery atop of the hill in the past, mostly when driving to the Birtvisi canyon, but this time we were visiting Tbilisi Hills golf club from which the monastery complex was nicely seen, and it was agreed to actually visit it. So we did and even had a nice picnic…