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…
I generally like the research done at the firm TastyLive (which used to be called TastyTrade). They say it’s wise to “manage your winners” at 50% profit. This is because: I recently opened a PayPal vertical call spread for around $4 per contract. As of today, only three days later, I could sell this spread…
PayPal is one of those companies that I have a bias against. I don’t remember precisely when my dislike for PayPal started. If you go back ~20 years, I bet I was using PayPal in the very early days. It was basically the main way people could buy things on eBay. I used to buy…
When I first heard that there was a Tesla ETF that was returning 68% annually, my immediate reaction was that it had to be a scam. There cannot be a natural “68%” return on investment. Most of that had to be the return of capital, and the ETF would be worth nothing within a year….
Over the past year, I dabbled in some individual stocks but eventually got out of them. At one point over the past year, I owned Manulife, Great West Life, T Rowe Price, and Intel. But have since sold them all. Some were sold at a profit and at least one at a loss. (Intel broke…
So I found a cool tool to visualize a portfolio called “Portfolio Visualizer”. I did my best to add my investments to be analyzed but I couldn’t add them all. I didn’t add any ETF that was less than 2% of my holdings. And I couldn’t find some of the ETFs, so I had to…
I was recently thinking about my portfolio and particularly my aversion to risk. In the past, I’ve told myself that I would be happy earning a nice, safe 6-8% per year. I didn’t need the 12% long-term stock market average or more risky 20%+ returns that real estate and other investors seek. That’s because one…
I haven’t considered this for a while, but let’s look at my current top 5 holdings and see what I like about them. I will ignore the Money Market ETF, BMO Money Market Fund ETF Series (ZMMK.TO) for this list. This is just earning a bit of interest on my cash and is not a…
You have to celebrate the little milestones, I guess. Do you know that feeling when driving a car, when the odometer ticks over from 99,999 to 100,000, and that feels like something significant? Even though it’s not? I just looked at my investment portfolio and saw that the odometer ticked over to a new round…
I watch a guy on YouTube, Ben Felix, who talks about investments. Ben is very research-focused, and each of his videos delves into some long-term study on investing that has some exciting results. Much of that still goes over my head, and I wish someone Explained It Like I Am Five. His latest video shows…
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