June 14th, 2025 Realized Gains: $824 Overall Position PnL: -0.5% June10 Price: $201Sentiment: Somewhat bullish This is my first week tackling AAPL directly. I began the position on June 10th, taking a bullish attitude. After one week, I am starting out a little bit to the downside. I don’t think it helped that Israel began dropping bombs …
These are my 5 pillars of investing that have governed my habits over time. They took years to develop and became solidified between 2020-2022 when I really took a serious look at how I viewed investing and trading.
Here are some definitions of the terms I use frequently to describe strategies, or parts of strategies.
June 10th, 2025 – AMZN I am pretty sure I will have two options assigned on my this week. One is a short CALL option at $210, which means I will be “Called” on an option assignment whereby 100 shares are sold at the contract price. The other assignment is a short PUT contract I …
Sometimes when I am trying to really get my head around a concept, there really is nothing better than asking Grok. I have tried other AI agents, but I find Grok to be my favorite. Check out the conversation below, and the level of detail that it provides based on a few questions. Me: What …
Today I felt it was time to take an opening position on AAPL, Apple Inc. My reasoning on this is that I feel the price has been stuck in a range where I think it will either hold, or turn slightly positive in the coming weeks. Here is a 1 year chart. Today, June 10th, …
June 10th, 2025 – AMZN Amazon got quite a boost Monday, and has created both challenges, and opportunities for this week. First, the challenges. Since I have several SHORT CALLS in place, some are now below the actual price of the stock. This of course could lead to me selling the stock at the price …
BLOG POSTS These are some ramblings of my daily thoughts. I don’t include all of it here naturally, but some of my inner commentary is included in these posts.
Compare Results – AMZN Week 4 June 7th, 2025 After 4 weeks here are the results so far. (From May 15th to June 6th is technically only 21 days.) This race really doesn’t have a finish line, and there will possibly be times when the strategies can overtake each other, and one will look better …
REALIZED GAINS When you have completed the cycle of buying, then selling any instrument whether that be a stock, option, piece of land, or a bicycle, the resulting gain or loss can be referred to as your “realized gains.“ With our investment portfolio, these can accumulate over time across several stock symbols, several days, weeks, …