Trading

On May 12, 2021, I bought a small amount of XLM - Stellar Lumens crypto coin from Coinbase - I decided to invest in this coin for the next 12 month, once in a month buying coins and spending about USD 50 on that (monthly)Disclosure:  This article contains affiliate links to the Coinbase.com website, by clicking on links on this page and by investing with Coinbase, I will earn affiliate income at no cost to you. Also, I'm not a financial advisor and I don't give you any advice, I'm just sharing…

Selling covered calls are one of my favorite income-generating strategies in the stock market. For a time being, I've been selling options on crypto mostly speculative puts and calls betting on where the price won't go, but today I decided to explore what are my chances of selling covered calls on bitcoin or Ethereum on the Deribit platform. Update: This article has been originally written back in May 2020, some things may have changed ever since.  In a normal world, covered call selling is…

Selling covered calls I probably love even more than selling naked puts, unfortunately, there are not many good stocks in my portfolio I could sell covered calls to generate decent monthly income yet, but I have a few candidates. In today's article, I'm going to speak about selling covered calls on AT&T, Pfizer, and Cisco systems. Subscribe to the covered calls newsletter (free & paid) Before we get started, here is a brief summary of what is a covered call A covered call refers to…

Selling naked puts on dividend stocks is one of my favorite income-generating strategies. I've been selling options since the end of March 2019, and as a seasoned dividend income investor, I find options as one of the best inventions of our time.  3 Trades to Generate $165 - $350/mo Selling Cash-Secured Put Options Income from options regularly puts food on our family table (or at least buys some candies). To follow up on my trades in almost real-time - subscribe to my newsletter at Covered…

Stock splits are not rare, they happen quite often.  In this article, I'm going to try to shed some light on what happens to options when stock is doing a reverse split. Make sure to check out my newsletter: Covered Calls with Reinis Fischer On March 24, 2020, I bought both call and put ratio back spread options on XOP ETF. A couple of days later I was reading on SeekingAlpha that XOP is doing a reverse stock split (4:1) My first question was  - what happens to my options now I'm currently…

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…

I've been trading options since March 2019, I have been trading verticals since September 2019. Option trading is not easy, it can hurt. Money can be made and more money can be lost - been there seen that. In my short options trader career I have tried naked puts, covered calls, futures, indexes - a lot has been learned and a lot is still to be learned. I prefer learning through practice, and that's how 0 DTE SPX Trading Challenge was born. I like 0 DTE over longer-term options - money is…

This is a quick tutorial on how to setup / enable charts in Interactive Brokers to trade stocks, ETFs, indexes e.t.c. For the last couple of months I've been trading 0 DTE SPX, for charting using either Google Finance or Trading view - both are great to get a basic view on what's happening. Google charts are indeed great to follow up on what's happening, while Tradingview offers some customization, like to add RSI and many other indicators. But as I'm using TWS platform form Interactive…

It was on early November 5th, 2019 morning, I was reading an interesting story about a guy buying a Tesla car for his sons 9th birthday, here is the story in brief: What is #TSLA4Tesla project? I am not into cars. My son, Arian, 8 years old, is different. He loves cars. Sometimes back, he got in love with Tesla. He asked me to buy a Tesla. I didn't need a new car. However, seeing Arian's craze for Tesla, and my love for trading stocks, we made a deal to trade TSLA stocks to see if we can buy…

Selling covered calls has been one of my favorite options trading strategies. 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 the seller can deliver the shares if…