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, …
The Bag – Are you caught holding the bag?
June 6th, 2025 – AMZN This blog is long, and has a lot of details including important calculations on how options decay and expire. At the end there is a link to see how we’re doing so far with this strategy compared to buy and hold. THURSDAYS MAYHEM That was a very interesting day. First …
Thursday June 5th 2025 We’re 1DTE from this weeks options expiries, and up until now, I have been letting them coast into Friday on the public AMZN project. Today might be different, and I will explain a few things to show you what I am thinking. Today’s actions will include a couple of my “pillars …
Wednesday June 4th 2025 Todays ADP Payroll data hasn’t moved things very much in premarket. Probably the biggest response was for Trump to take another shot at Jerome Powell to drop interest rates just seconds after the data was posted. It seems like lowering interest rates is inevitable, since most of the G7 countries around …
Summarize some of the basic concepts of a call contract for both the buyer, and the seller.