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In this article, I will share my idea for growing back my stock portfolio by starting small. Long story short, after several years with a costly Dutch Lynx Broker (affiliated with Interactive Brokers), where I was paying high commissions for stock buys (sells) and options trades I finally closed it in mid-September 2022, closing all the positions and withdrawing funds. Because of some regulation, I was not allowed to open an Interactive Brokers account (much cheaper commissions) for a 6 month…

On April 1st, 2022, to celebrate my 11 years in Georgia I closed most of my stock and options positions. I took a huge loss, but again I must admit, my biggest problem was overtrading -too many open naked positions. Something I want to avoid in the future. I wanted to close all the positions and buy only AAPL stock to sell covered calls on, but I was short with free capital, and instead, I established covered calls positions on 4 stocks and bought just.a few shares with AAPL stock. The plan is…

Covered calls probably are my favorite options trading strategy as it involves the least risk (at least in theory) A covered call refers to a transaction in the financial market in which the investor selling call options owns the equivalent amount of the underlying security. To execute this an investor holding a long position in an asset then writes (sells) call options on that same asset to generate an income stream. The investor's long position in the asset is the "cover" because it means…