With April behind us I was eager to have AI take a look at my transactions and give me some analysis. It seems AI kept making mistakes in how it calculates things on this data set. All I know for certain is that my accounts went up in value but how they went up may…
Category: Options Strategy
A Difference of Opinion
I like to read many different things that revolve around money. I spend time on Reddit finance related forums, personal finance blogs, finance related YouTube channels, and endless other news outlets like CNBC and Bloomberg. In essence much of my reading time for leisure, pleasure and work revolves around money. I recently caught up on…
First AI Driven Put Credit Spread
I decided to take the plunge and let AI run my first put credit spread. It looked at a few options from the latest report and I picked EFA. The AI “suggestion” was to buy the $85 Put and sell the $92 put for a max profit of 6% on the trade on EFA. I…
How I Get Paid To Wait To Buy Stocks At Discount
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”…
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…
How I Research A Trade (Now With AI)
Back in the pre-AI days which I’ll now refer to as B.AI. I would spend hours searching the internet for articles on particular topic that caught my interest. For example, let’s say I read an article about the shortages of corn. We know corn is used as a food source but also an input into…
AI: KRE/XLF Put Options For A Correction
As AI has proven to be far more useful and knowledgeable than me on trading, I am now taking higher and higher risks with AI. My latest thought was to hedge against banking crashes so I asked AI to give me the best options on KRE (S&P Regional Banking ETF). I gave AI options data…
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…
Made 20% Return In One Day By Accident
What a crazy week. The volatility in this market has been insane. Yesterday I attempted to sell 10 contracts for January 2027 on a particular equity I own and I accidentally clicked BUY instead of SELL in the options screen. I quickly tried to undo it by selling them back but the market moved due…
Detailed Returns For One Account @ Fidelity
A reader asked for details on my recent post on my account returns. Because there are many components and options trades, I didn’t have the time to calculate the detail so I downloaded all the transactions for 2025 for one account and uploaded them to AI and asked it to create a detailed dashboard. The…