Investments

Selling covered calls is one of my favorite income-generating strategies in the stock market. For a time being, I've been selling options on crypto too at the Deribit.com exchange. So far I can report mixed success with crypto cash-settled options. For some 6 months, I stopped dealing with crypto at all, instead of focusing on the stock market. At one of the many investor Facebook groups I follow, I noticed a user reporting Bitcoin dipping 10%, and I asked the author, does he knows some…

Welcome to the forty-second (#42) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in October 2020. Last October we managed to get out of Georgia and come to Latvia, seems we have will stuck here for some time. Also, another, bigger and better, drone is now in my arsenal (DJI Mavic Air 2) Golden Autumn in Latvia / Forest house in Ķemeri From the perspective of dividend income - we keep struggling and last October was pretty bad if…

The Small Dogs of the Dow, are the five lowest-priced Dogs of the Dow stocks. Currently (2020), these are the Small Dogs of The Dow stocks: DOW, PFE, WBA, CSCO and KO In today's article, I will take a quick glimpse at a potential return from investing in these five stocks with options (covered calls) + collecting the dividend during the road. Invest in These 5 Stocks From The Dow Jones list With Covered Calls and Collect Dividend For this example, I'm going to virtually buy 100 shares at…

Welcome to the forty-first (#41) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in September 2020. Just like in the previous months, we spent the last September here in Georgia. We did a few road trips across the country. Also, I managed to crash and lose my DJI Mavic mini drone and had to order a new one, which got delivered at the end of the month, so more cool drone videos can be done. Sapara monastery in Georgia I had a chance…

On September 18, 2020, I won an online auction for a property in the countryside Latvia. This was the second time me using E-izsoles platform, and the second time winning an online auction (for the truth I won the first time a plot of land, but that place turned out not good for a house building and I revoked it, back in Summer of 2019) In total today, I agreed to pay EUR 3,760 for a 53,7 m2 flat in a 3-storer building in rural Latvia. The name of the village is Vilgāle, and it's located some…

Hey options traders, I've started a newsletter! Subscribe here! So far it's been live options trades and some trade ideas. I'm hoping there will be other stuff, too. I'm not sure how often it will come out, as I trade often, I'm thinking ... five times a week? There are a plan to send out two free and three paid (paying subscribers) newsletters in a week. For hosting this newsletter I've chosen the substack platform, which takes off a lot of hassle, as publishers we can focus on what matters…

Welcome to the forty (#40) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in August 2020. Last August I turned 35, because of the Covid-19 we couldn't travel much and decided to stay in Georgia. At the start of August we headed to the Black sea coastal town Batumi, and then visited the 5-star Paragraph hotel in Shekvetili for a couple of days. August was pretty awesome. Paragraph Resort & Spa Shekvetili, Autograph Collection…

On July 6, 2020, we bought an additional 10 shares of Pfizer (PFE) paying $34.80 per share for our Partnership Fund. With its quarterly dividend payout of 0.38 dollars per share, this latest buy has a dividend yield of 4.36% (before tax) and will pay us an additional $3.80 (before tax) every quarter. Not the biggest dividend, but every bit counts!  There are three simple reasons we like this stock - it has a reasonably high dividend yield of more than 3%, it has increased the dividend payout…

Welcome to the thirty-ninth (#39) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks and peer to peer lending in July 2020. Just like the previous months, the last June we also spent in a self-isolation (because of Covid-19) here in Georgia. More of the strict lockdown measurements were lifted (inner tourism, restaurants, and hotels were opened for public)  we did a few weekend trips with an overnight stay at local resorts here in Georgia.  The baby girl attends …

It was back in 2011 or 2012 when I first heard about Bank of Georgia or TBC bank is listed on the London stock exchange. Back then I thought - wow, cool, impressive. Fast forward to 2020, I still think this is impressive that Georgia has a few companies listed on the London stock exchange, but as my investment horizons have shifted towards dividend investing + options trading, I don't find investing on LSE interesting.  Anyhow, in today's article I'm going to look at four Georgian companies…