So BNS announced some great financial results and increased its dividend from $1 per quarter to $1.03.
The company announced profits of CA$2.18 per share for the quarter, and CA$1.03 will be given as a dividend.
Other banks like Royal Bank and CIBC also announced strong earnings. The rising interest rates from the Bank of Canada have not had an effect on bank profits yet.
Perhaps there’s a way to trade deep-in-the-money options profitably. I haven’t found a good strategy, and I picked the wrong stock to play with. BABA was a boat anchor, sinking, sinking, sinking. The strategy I was trying to follow was hypothetically foolproof. Every month, I can sell a DITM call against 100 shares of a…
Currently, my worst investment across my portfolio is the ZPR “BMO Laddered Preferred Share Index ETF.” It is currently down 8% from where I bought it. I might have bought it too early. Investments such as these (and bonds) perform better in falling interest rate environments, not rising ones. But I feel that interest rates…
I recently did something that you’re not supposed to do. I bought a (new) house before selling my existing house. This made moving easier. I didn’t have to worry about “timing” the close, nor have to entertain real estate agents/buyers until after having left the previous place. But financially, it made things a challenge. In…
I estimate that I have about 20.8% of my investable net worth in cash right now. My original 2022 goal was 10%. I briefly achieved that. But life gets in the way sometimes, and assets move around. And now I’ve drifted back up to 20%. So I’ve decided to move some money around to make…
The original impetus for this blog was that I had a significant amount of uninvested cash in my various bank and brokerage accounts, and I wanted to push myself to become more fully invested. After selling off around half of my VanEck Wide Moat and some Russell 2000 funds, I still hadn’t done anything with…
Yesterday, I analyzed my portfolio, and it was a case of good news and bad news. The good news is that my returns YTD (and in the past 12 months) seem to match the returns of the S&P 500 pretty well. I am less than 1% below the return of the US market, and so…
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