She Meant to Buy 0.1 McDonald’s Share. She Bought 100.
What an accidental $23,572.50 MCD position taught me about position sizing, covered calls and knowing when to simply reverse a trade.Every time my daughter and I visit McDonald’s…
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Managing a Losing Short Put With a Bear Call Spread: An NFLX Case Study
A losing short put creates an uncomfortable question: should you close the position, roll it, accept assignment, or add another options structure in an attempt to improve the…
From Clearing Bushes to Selling Stora Enso Put Options: An 11.65% Annualized Trade
Today, after looking over one of our properties in western Latvia, I invited representatives from the local Swedish-owned forestry company Sveaskog Baltfor to estimate the cost of…
Why I Bought Bank of America Stock After Selling a Cash-Secured Put
Recently, I added Bank of America stock to our long-term stock portfolio after selling a cash-secured put on BAC.This was not a random trade. I have been selling options and…
From Pizza Dinner to Portfolio: Why I Bought PZZA Stock in Dublin
Some investment ideas start with a spreadsheet. Others begin while waiting for pizza.During a recent trip to Dublin, I took my daughter for dinner at Papa John's. While waiting…
Why I Keep Adding MCD Stock After Visiting McDonald's
Most investing decisions don't happen inside a brokerage account. They happen in everyday life.Over the years, I've tried to reduce unnecessary spending and make more intentional…
Selling Cash-Secured Puts on Lufthansa (LHA): A 14.5% Annualized Return Opportunity
After booking a trip to Ireland with Lufthansa, I found myself doing something I often do when a company catches my attention: looking at its stock and checking whether there are…
Can Options Traders Invest in Ireland? Exploring the Irish Stock Market
As we are planning a trip to Ireland this weekend, I decided to take a closer look at the country's stock market.Actually, this has become a bit of a habit. Whenever I visit a new…
Why I Stopped Selling Put Options on Micro Gold Futures (MGC)
I stopped selling put options on Micro Gold futures because the options market did not give me the liquidity and flexibility I needed to manage the position well. This is a first-…
How To Sell Covered Calls with Solana on ByBit
ByBit is my new favorite crypto trading platform, I switched from Deribit to ByBit around August 2023, with the launch of TerraMatris crypto hedge fund. I like trading on…
Selling a 1DTE Solana Covered Call for $0.21 in Premium
It has been several days since I'm playing again with crypto options, more precisely selling covered calls with Solana coin on the deribit trading platform.Disclosure: This…
Buying Amazon stock on margin (NASDAQ:AMZN) before stock split to sell covered calls
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…
7 Dividend Stocks to Accumulate While Selling Put Options for Extra Income
In today's article, I'm going to talk about 7 dividend stocks I don't mind having in my portfolio and how I'm generating additional semi-passive income by selling put options (or…
I'm earning $3.19/daily* by trading crypto options and I want more!
This is a quick follow-up post to my original idea of experimenting with writing crypto covered calls on Ethereum and Bitcoin, I started at the end of November 2020This is not the…
My First Iron Condor Trade - Lessons Learned
This article has been in the blog's draft section for a couple of months and as it still bears some useful information I decided to publish as it is with little comments at the…
My First Option Trade: FTR Aug16'19 2 Put @0.45
Now, this is exciting - in the late evening of March 28th, 2019 (GMT) I made my first options trade (s).To get to this point it took me a couple of months and a lot of…