Investments

About 4 years ago I started a simple, so-called 52 Week Money Saving Challenge. The rules for this challenge are very simple - to deposit in the first week one euro, in the second week - two, third week - three, etc. The amount after each week continues to grow, up to the last week of the year, when it is 52 euros. Back in 2018, I was saving in the jar, but I must admit I dropped the challenge after some 6 months, as we were relocating from country to country and I didn't have any more access…

On April 1st, 2022, to celebrate my 11 years in Georgia I closed most of my stock and options positions. I took a huge loss, but again I must admit, my biggest problem was overtrading -too many open naked positions. Something I want to avoid in the future. I wanted to close all the positions and buy only AAPL stock to sell covered calls on, but I was short with free capital, and instead, I established covered calls positions on 4 stocks and bought just.a few shares with AAPL stock. The plan is…

At the end of October 2021, I launched the 52-week challenge of Buying Apple stock with the goal of buying 2 AAPL shares once a week. Fast forward to the end of March 2022 and I'm lagging behind my goal a lot.  Currently holding just 4 shares with Apple. Long story short - the stock market has gone significantly against me and I'm suffering losses from the options trading, holding me back from investing more in Apple.  A few weeks ago I came up with a plan to buy 5 shares with AMZN on margin…

On March 17, 2022, I assisted in buying 1 share of AMZN stock for my fiancee. She paid USD 3,101.99 for 1 share. Our goal is to have 5 shares by June 6, 2022. My fiancee is having her birthday on June 10 and by that time I hope I will be able to assist her in selling the first covered call on AMZN stock as well. Subscribe to my newsletter about investing with covered calls Now, long story short AMZN stock is doing a 1:20 stock split on June 6, 2022: On March 9, 2022, the Board of Directors…

Investing with covered calls is one of my most favorited income-generating strategies. Not always works as expected but at least the sleep at night is healthier than chasing after high yield or trading futures with margin. lol.  In today's article, I will share one example of how I'm actually generating weekly/biweekly/monthly income from selling covered calls on Dow inc dividend stock.   Make sure to check out my freemium newsletter about investing with covered calls Before we get started,…

Welcome to the fifty-eight (#58) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks in February 2022. Last month we spent in Georgia, did a few road trips across the country, flying a drone, made some nice drone videos. At the start of the month, we got infected with Covid-19, mild symptoms and after 8-day quarantine, we were back on the track. The daughter is growing really fast, the QSI Internation school is awesome. Last month we spent learning maths and so on…

Welcome to the fifty-seventh (#57) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks in January 2022. Last January we traveled quite a lot, at the start we flew from Riga to Tbilisi to throw a New Year's party at Sandra's new office, see here how I did a paint job there back in December. We had just two days in Tbilisi and we flew to Colombo, Sri Lanka via Qatar. we spent some 2 weeks in Sri Lanka, traveling from Colombo to Galle and back, staying at 5-star resort…

Welcome to the fifty-sixth (#56) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks in December 2021. Last December, just like in November, October, and September we spent both in Georgia and Latvia. We had a nice family gathering on Christmas and New Year in Riga.  Shortly before the New Yeae I did some paint job at our Vilgåle apt From the perspective of dividend income - Last December was very good, after a longer time I was able again to break a $100 monthly…

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, that didn't happen. Now when looking at 2022 I'…

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-sustainable cattle farm for milk production with the…