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This is a July 2026 record of a difficult Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) options position and the adjustment I was considering. It is not a generic bear-call-spread tutorial, and the historical record does not show…
This is a June 2026 personal cash-secured-put case study. A day spent looking at overgrown land in western Latvia and the economics of wood chips led me to research regional forestry companies and, eventually,…
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 investing with Bank of…
Some investment ideas start with a spreadsheet. Others begin while waiting for pizza. During a Dublin trip with my daughter, I checked whether Papa John’s was publicly traded while we waited for dinner. Papa…
Most investing decisions do not happen inside a brokerage account. In my case, small McDonald’s purchases grew from everyday family visits and a simple habit: when we visited McDonald’s, I sometimes bought 0.1 shares…
This is a June 2026 Lufthansa cash-secured-put case study. I sold the put because I was willing to own LHA at a lower effective price, not because a short-duration annualized calculation guaranteed a long-term…
While planning a June 2026 trip to Ireland, I followed a familiar habit: I looked at the local stock market, the companies I recognized and whether the market offered anything useful for my options-oriented…
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-person case study…
Selling covered calls on Solana has been one way I have tried to earn option premium from SOL I already hold, rather than treating every position as a short-term trade. This article reflects my…
On 12 December 2022, we minted 10,000 TerraM coins on Solana with the aim of raising $10,000 for Ethereum options trades on Deribit. The capital was not raised, but January 2023 still became a…
This is a historical Solana covered-call experiment from September 2022. It records one small, fully funded SOL options position and the way I interpreted its premium and expiry outcome at the time. It is…
Greetings from Tbilisi. In September 2022, while the weather was still hot and autumn winds were starting to arrive, I was watching European stocks open lower on a US market holiday. ING and E.ON…
In March 2022, a snowy Friday in Tbilisi ended with a few hours of market work before a flight to Riga. The surrounding day involved school runs, office work and travel preparation, but the…
This is a historical March 2022 case study about buying Amazon stock before its planned 20-for-1 split, using margin, and hoping to begin selling covered calls after the split. It records the plan and…
I use cash-secured puts as one way to potentially accumulate shares in companies I am willing to own. Instead of placing a buy order and simply waiting, I can sell a put at a…
This article records an early crypto-options experiment from late 2020. The figures below are historical trade notes from a small 30-day experiment, not a current return target or a promise of recurring income.This is…
This article began as my March 2020 dividend income report. We spent that month between Latvia and Georgia as Covid-19 changed daily life, and from 17 March Georgia was in lockdown. The market context…
This article began as my January 2020 dividend income report. We spent the month in Georgia, made road trips to Tsinandali and Gudauri, and were also dealing with a difficult market backdrop. The useful…
This is a historical account of my first iron condor trade, opened on 13 August 2019. It was a real lesson in position structure, execution, and what can go wrong when a defined-risk trade…
In the late evening of 28 March 2019 (GMT), after a couple of months of reading, conversations and YouTube videos, I made my first options trade. This is a historical record of that beginner…
