Investments

About 3 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 Monday, 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 I decided to start over by selling credit spreads on a few select stocks and from the premium to buy dividend stocks (preferably dividend aristocrat stocks) My first new trade was with FCEL, where I sold 5 credit spreads, collected some $181, and from the premium bought…

On February 26, 2021, I bought additional 20 shares of Realty Income Corp. (NYSE:O ) paying $60.85 per share.  With its monthly dividend of 0.23 cents per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 4.53% and will pay us an additional $4.60 every month (before tax).  Now, that's awesome! To finance this purchase we spent one-fourth of our options income in the month of February. I now hold in total 84 shares of O, In total, they contribute about $197.06 (after tax) yearly to our dividend…

On April 8, 2021, I bought additional 8 shares of Intel Corporation (INTC) for our daughter's stock portfolio, paying $66.80 per share. Funds for this purchase were taken from my dad's inheritance fund. With its quarterly dividend payout of $0.34 per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 2.03% and will pay us $2.72 (before tax) every quarter. Not the biggest addition to the portfolio, but every bit counts. We are now holding 62 shares with INTC Our average buy price: $57.28 I plan…

Welcome to the fifthy (#50) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks in June 2021. The last June we spent in Georgia and at the end of the month traveled back to Latvia, we did many nice road trips, kept going to the gym and visited swimming pool, English kindergarten for our daughter. Life is very good. I was doing quite a lot of awesome drone videography around both countries, discovered new places both in Georgia and Latvia. From the perspective of …

On February 22, 2021, I bought additional 10 shares of LI (NASDAQ:LI) for our daughter's stock portfolio, paying $28.48 per share. Funds for this purchase were taken from my dad's inheritance fund. Li Auto Inc., also known as Li Xiang, is a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Beijing, with manufacturing facilities in Changzhou Unlike most of my other buys - LI is not a dividend stock. When buying this stock I'm looking at potential value growth. We are now holding 30 …

It has been a while since I last time compared the economic output of the former Soviet Union states. Last time I did, I had data for 2013, see: GDP Per Capita In Former Soviet Union Countries 2013 With the latest economic sanctions against Belarus I decided to take a look, how does each of the former Soviet countries stands now, the latest data I was able to gather was from 2019 (World Bank). Per capita gross domestic product (GDP) is a metric that breaks down a country's economic output…

On February 1, 2021, I sold  all 55 shares of Washington Prime Group (NYSE:WPG) at $13.45 to purchase 10 shares with KO at $48.26 per share + kept some cash I've been holding WPG shares since late 2018 It seemed like a nice dividend stock, but later turned out one of the most disastrous stocks in my portfolio, falling from ~$7 per share to way below $1.  Once this stock fell below $1 I bought some more, idea was to go bust or make out like a bandit. Then WPG stock went stock split 9:1, and…

On April 15, 2021, I sold 80 shares of Stone Harbor Emerging (NYSE:EDF) at $8.85 to finance other stock purchases on Interactive Broker We have been holding EDF stock since July 2018, in general, I still like the stock, but my investment philosophy has changed and I'm not interested anymore to hold stocks without options. EDF was a decent monthly dividend stock, unfortunately, I'm closing this position with a loss of -$572.35. Who knows, maybe in the future, I might buy back this stock. 

On January 29, 2021, we bought 15 shares of NIO stock (NYSE:O ) paying $57.17 per share.  Unlike most of the other stocks I buy, NIO is not a dividend stock, instead, I see NIO as a potential growth stock NIO is a Chinese automobile manufacturer headquartered in Shanghai, specializing in designing and developing electric vehicles. The company is also involved in the FIA Formula E Championship, the first single-seater, all-electric racing series NIO stock forecast The 17 analysts offering…