Again, pick companies that will not be obsolete within the time frame you pick. You mentioned only financials that were potentially levered up...
The strategy i outline is best suited for portfolios of $200,000 plus, otherwise since i'm aiming for 10% per year that return with smaller...
Others have debated this. I prefer selling naked puts generally because I would not mind owning the company stock at the strike i sold. Most...
Out of a universe of maybe 50 quality companies you have a potential opportunity every three months for just a few of them to have a poor quarter...
right now is not an ideal time to implement a put selling strategy since volatility is so low. wait for a more ideal time, debt ceiling, etc......
Yes mostly spy, again, a downdraft in spy would make a good time to sell far otm puts, they seem perpetually overpriced. I mean if you look at...
This is honestly my favorite strategy. I short otm puts on decent companies, KO, WMT, COH, TIF, PEP, PG. Its absolutely true that 90% of...
How many years have your traded like this? The only problem i see is that you have to pay yourself a 'reasonable salary' which is subject to...
selling premium (usually shorting otm puts) when it feels so wrong is in hindsight the most profitable activity i've done. i.e. sell otm puts...
you can roll down and out for a debit (loss) you don't have to double up this isn't pg or mcd in which case i would double up. unless op thinks...
roll out and down the premiums are juiced even down into low 20's or even teens they are high priced down there because people are pricing in zero...
you wouldn't really know until it happens, at 5% that means you should be able to go with it for on average 20 years before blowing up. problem...
i'm just stating the facts. they are building a nationwide network. nobody can beat them at it, save wal-mart and target matching there...
AMZN revenue was up 22% you must be referring to profit fell 45% year over year. earnings are irrevelevant to AMZN as they are a non-profit...
ok that logic seems to work on PG too but its taking off like a rocket. higher input costs, weak consumer situation, and they have premium...
you said short YHOO at $16ish and you stated you had shorted over $800k of it. It went to $18ish and you said but i was short a bunch of puts too...
haj i thought you were short from $90 but let me guess you sold 1000x puts short too so you made $50,000 on the short MCD? at least pick a...
that's the way it works, i sell puts almost exclusively and win on over 90% of them and then the 10% go to work on my pnl. i was short -$600...
thanks for the input. the big thing for me was no se tax, but after review its seems neither investor, trader, or trader m2m are liable for se...
From what i've researched its basically two main advantages according to accountant: Since all positions marked to market (priced to year end...
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