I couldn’t wait for the market to open today. The new administration’s tariff fiasco is roiling markets and it has allowed me to take 80% on some of my original calls and I had already banked 60% profit on some of the others. My new calls are up over 50% in profit already. I sold…
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Canadian Citizens Response To Trade War & The S&P 500
Unless you’re living under a rock, you should know by now that the new U.S. administration has imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. Canada has responded in kind and I won’t get into Canada’s tariffs but I will get into research into what some Canadians are suggesting at taking action. The follow is information…
White House Announces Tariffs
The market sold off late into the day today because the White House announced tariffs on a bunch of stuff. This isn’t a political blog so I won’t get into the details here but those tariffs are going to impact people’s jobs, investments, and retirement. For me, the immediate effect was to see IWM drop…
Sold IWM Calls Today
I wanted to write a series of posts on a full life-cycle of a covered call transaction with these posts but the volatility in the market is making too many opportunities for me to use my standard methodologies. To that end I took the opportunity to sell more calls on IWM and rake in $700…
Took 60% Profits on IWM Calls
Yesterday was the Federal Reserve meeting and they decided to keeps rate steady which means I had a tough decision to make. Buy back my calls now at 60% return or let them sit. Normally, I would close and roll calls once they hit 80% profit but because the Fed didn’t cut, the next major…
Deepseek AI Causes Market Chaos
The big news today is the tech market being down by hundreds of billions. NVIDIA lost at least $500 billion in market cap today and my IWM calls are up in value by 50% and was very tempted to roll them into March but I’m going to hold strong. If I didn’t already have a…
Play Time Over, Time To Make Money On IWM
Following up on this post regarding my plan to sell covered call options on IWM from back in November, I had written I would wait until the new administration had been sworn in and that’s now done so it’s time to make money. Since November I have been accumulating IWM via buy-write transactions and ended…
A Whopping 7.254% Interest Rate On Municipal Bonds
I’m giddy with excitement. I got an email from Fidelity on some new municipal bonds offering a whopping tax equivalent yield of 7.254 percent. The real yield is 4.57 percent but keep in mind that the interest is free from state and federal income taxes so the adjusted yield is equivalent to about 7.25 percent….
My Tax Plan for 2025
It’s December and I finally made some decisions around tax planning for 2025. As your income grows higher and higher, tax planning becomes a core part of your long term strategy. W-2 Income I decided to defer about 1/4 of my income for 2025 in the company deferred compensation plan and I will also be…
Using Swiss Currency To Hedge Your Investment Portfolio
There are many ways to hedge an investment portfolio especially if you have a majority of your investments in the U.S. market and indexes such as the S&P 500. One of my occasional tools is to hedge my portfolio through purchases of FXF or it’s related options. SPY vs FXF Divergences I asked AI to…