So I’ve been doing some research last night and today and came across this fund.
One year down 28%. Pretty much straight down on a regular and consistent basis.
Am I crazy enough to buy this? I just might be!
I’ll tell you what this is in the next blog post.
Luckily, I still have a couple of years to wait for this trade to win. But PayPal, which was up briefly when I opened the vertical call spread, has now gone down, and the profits I had in that spread have gone away. So, let’s put that trade aside for now. PayPal will recover. I…
Without further ado, here are the top five holdings in my portfolio based on their total investment return since I bought them. #1. GALP At the start of the Russian war with Ukraine, there was some concern about gas supplies in Europe. Through some weird luck, I bought Galp. It has been up 116% since…
I watched an interesting Youtube video the other day. The author made two great arguments: I know that this channel loves Warren Buffett, so it quotes him on these two points. Berkshire Hathaway (of which I now own a bit) has basically doubled the return of the S&P 500 over the past 60 years because…
I might regret saying this, but as of August 2022, I’m pretty happy with my portfolio. The expected yield on my portfolio is 5.41%, but some of that money is invested in GICs and balanced mutual funds. Looking strictly at my stock portfolio, my yield is 6.27%. (I guess that’s below inflation, but high inflation…
The next option strategy I’m trying is a deep-in-the-money, covered call. Yes, I know that this blog is essentially about dividends. But I’m in my playing-with-options phase. What if you can invest in a strategy almost guaranteed to make money? Does such a thing exist? Let’s look at an example of such a strategy: a…
When I initially set out to define my investment goals, I had bought into a prevalent belief: time in the market beats timing the market. And that’s generally true. Schwab published a study that showed that someone with absolutely perfect timing – investing $2000 at the low point of the index every year – just…
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