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Not recommended. It's not a substitute for bonds. The yield is pumped up by selling covered calls. It's still mostly equity beta.
I'll write an update early in 2023. I'm up $60k. But with steep drawdowns on precisely those dates you mention. That $60k is from selling a total gros...
The ES futures trade around 30 points higher. That's because of the high interest rates relative to the dividend yield. There is no easy way to make...
@john All good questions. I think the market is more resilient today. 1987 was due to computer trading going haywire. I think today's markets are be...
Notice to our non-US options traders: Thursday is a holiday. There's little volume today (Wednesday) and even less on Friday. Wednesday is a regular N...
Good point. BRK is a solid company and outperformed the overall index YTD. It's the flavor du jour because all the high-flying growth stocks got hamme...
A quick announcement about the 6th option expiration this week. Make sure to get the timing right. In the IB trading screen, the "NOV 17 SPX REGULAR" ...
@ohadost I've recently sold about 1.5x as many contracts (12 instead of 8) but with a slightly lower premium. Maybe 0.35 each. Sometimes spreading it ...
Worked out pretty well. The market certainly factored in a lot of uncertainty and you could sell puts way out of the money. Onto the next vol spike: t...
Once you knock off an expected inflation rate of 2.5% you're down to an effective WR in the low-3%. Much worse than what you could achieve with a dive...
Thanks for the link. Yes, we should certainly consider alternative asset classes: Real Estate, Farmland, Options Trading, etc. It always pays to add u...