Category: Investments

After approaching nearly 10% return on my foreign currencies, I decided to sell them today. The inflation data is looking ominous and it may lead to the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates at a time that everyone thinks interest rates are primed to go down. If inflation does spike and the Fed raises rates, it…

Back in November I wrote a couple of posts on Euro and Swiss currency to hedge my investment portfolio. These positions weren’t huge but they were intended to hedge and possibly profit from volatility against a falling stock market and falling US Dollar. So how are those positions doing now? My Euro currency trade is…

Last year in April I wrote two posts about a new ETF CPSM. The first was a brief description of how it’s supposed to work and the second was the actual purchase of this ETF. The premise of this ETF was that it would “guarantee” the core invested amount but yield a maximum of 9…

I am traveling and while I am away, I am not oblivious to what’s been happening with the stock market. I checked in this morning to see the status of my IWM collar. In case you missed it, here is a post from March 11 about how I planned on protecting my portfolio with an…

I haven’t had time to write too many posts because I am fighting fires set by this new crazy administration. Last year, I wrote a post entitled, “Diversification is 2024 theme: Banking, Health, Tech, Everything” and that was based on all the cyber security and related incidents throughout the year. This year, it seems every…

I have been concerned about the economy for a while now but the growing volatility I’ve seen in the market the past few months coupled with the new administration policies lead me to believe that now is a good time to shift to different options strategies. I’ve written about my ladder covered call strategy here…