I don’t like paying full price for anything and stock equities get no exception so I’m going to share with you how I buy equities at a discount and get paid to wait. Selling Cash Secured Puts The image below shows cash secured puts I sold at the start of April. I like to “ladder”…
Category: Investments
New App: Bull Put (Credit) Spreads
I continue to invest time and energy in AI to help me build apps to optimize my investments. I finally got around to building a bull put credit spread app to scan data and find the best opportunities for returns or safety. Below are screen shots of the first run on April 17, 2026. I…
Volatile Market, AMZN Collars To The Rescue
Warren Buffett’s two rules of money are simple. #1 Don’t lose money, #2 See rule #1. To that end, it’s been an extremely volatile market to say the least. There is a non-war war going on, oil infrastructure has been destroyed and there may be more to come. Since I don’t like losing money, I…
AI: Entry Points For JEPQ
With the help of AI, my investment portfolio is starting to fire on all cylinders. As I approach retirement, income generation and capital preservation are two key things that are the most important thing to me. I have a small position in JEPQ for it’s excellent yield however my position is small because I don’t…
Q1 2026 Returns
I had hoped to have created some dashboards of all brokerage accounts today but I got too busy at work and other activities but I did run summaries and critiques of my accounts. Because every broker has different file formats when downloading transactions it creates extra work. AI can parse through most of it but…
Sneak Peak: Beautiful Quarterly Return Dashboards
AI and I are starting to build some really great things. The latest thing I am working on are dashboards for my investment portfolio. I have multiple accounts at multiple brokerage accounts. There are many reasons but part of it is account diversification and keeping within limits of FDIC and SIPC limits. After a reader…
Hiding Out in Gold
The apps I use to find great options trades is having a harder and harder time of finding something to invest in so I made the decision to hide out in gold. It’s just one small position because I’m already invested in silver, and gold miners with hedged collar strategies. I bought 100 shares of…
24 Percent Return (Annualized) On XOP
Back on February 24, one of my apps found unusual options activity on XOP so I decided to take a look. The premiums for a few weeks out were crazy so I decided to buy 100 shares of XOP and sold the March 6 $140 strikes for $367.33. It looks like those options will get…
21.8 Percent Return On EWY?
This Iran war has caused Asian stocks to get clobbered. A large part of the issue is that Asia’s oil flows through the Straits of Hormuz so if that shipping lane is disrupted, it will cause havoc with Asian economies as energy costs soar. The KOSPI has been hit hard and is down 12 percent…
More GSE Bonds Called
In February I’ve had about 20k worth of GSE bonds called. These were essentially government loans to farmers. I had almost 6% interest on these bonds and it makes sense for whoever took out these loans to refinance at today’s lower rates. Ironically, the recent PPI report had hotter inflation than expected which has led…