Investments

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…

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 decrease my negative cash balance down to at least…

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 many open options trades. I'm holding short naked…

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 buying AAPL stock at the end of October, during my 52…

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 decrease my negative cash balance down to at least…

Welcome to the fifty-fifth (#55) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks in November 2021. Last November, just like the October and September we spent both in Georgia and Latvia, there were some circumstances that required us to travel forth and back a few times. Nevertheless, we still managed to make a few nice road trips, visit some nice restaurants, and so on. We got a nice rental flat in Riga city center and agreed to send our daughter to QSI Tbilisi…

Quite a crazy Black Friday in the market. or Mr. Market almost squeezed me out of my comfort zone. A sharp recovery helped and I went shopping on bargain (hopefully). Worst day since June 2020. Should focus more on covered calls in the future

There are a couple of ways some might get exposed to the oil market, you could go with futures, ETF's or individual stocks.  In this article, I will share an example on how some could sell options on individual stock - a stock I've been selling options with mixed success in the past - RDSA - or Royal Dutch Shell Royal Dutch Shell PLC, commonly known as Shell, is a British-Dutch oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom. It is one of the oil…

Welcome to the fifty-fourth (#54) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks in October 2021. Last October, just like the September we spent both in Georgia and Latvia, there were some circumstances that required us to return. Nevertheless, we still managed to make a few nice road trips, visited some nice restaurants, and so on. From the perspective of dividend income - Last October was very low, but as I'm rebuilding the portfolio from the scratch - it's…

Yesterday, on October 25, 2021, I sold all of the Bitcoin holdings I had with Coinbase PRO. Additionally, I sold off all my investments with SEB mutual funds and stocks at Nasdaq Baltic: Baltic Horizon, and DelfinGroup. I did this because I have started another interesting 52-week challenge - buying Apple stock for the next 52 weeks and I want to focus on that challenge.  As an options trader, I want to collect at least 100 shares with Apple stock and start selling covered calls on it (…