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Options trades do not always follow the original plan.In May 2026, I opened a position in Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) by selling put credit spreads. The initial idea was straightforward: collect option premium while…
Today, after looking over one of our properties in western Latvia, I invited representatives from the local Swedish-owned forestry company Sveaskog Baltfor to estimate the cost of clearing the overgrown bushes from the property.I…
Recently, I added Bank of America stock to our long-term stock portfolio after selling a cash-secured put on BAC.This was not a random trade. I have been selling options and investing with Bank of…
Some investment ideas start with a spreadsheet. Others begin while waiting for pizza.During a recent trip to Dublin, I took my daughter for dinner at Papa John's. While waiting for the pizza, I did…
Most investing decisions don't happen inside a brokerage account. They happen in everyday life.Over the years, I've tried to reduce unnecessary spending and make more intentional financial decisions. At the same time, my wife…
After booking a trip to Ireland with Lufthansa, I found myself doing something I often do when a company catches my attention: looking at its stock and checking whether there are any interesting options…
As we are planning a trip to Ireland this weekend, I decided to take a closer look at the country's stock market.Actually, this has become a bit of a habit. Whenever I visit a…
As a seasoned trader and CEO of Terramatris crypto hedge fund, I have explored various trading strategies over the years. One strategy I have experimented with is selling put options on Micro gold futures.…
ByBit is my new favorite crypto trading platform, I switched from Deribit to ByBit around August 2023, with the launch of TerraMatris crypto hedge fund. I like trading on Bybit because, unlike on the Deribit,…
It has been several days since I'm playing again with crypto options, more precisely selling covered calls with Solana coin on the deribit trading platform.Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links to deribit.com bitcoin options trading…
On March 17, 2022, I assisted in buying 1 share of AMZN stock for my fiancee. She paid USD 3,101.99 for 1 share.Our goal is to have 5 shares by June 6, 2022. My…
In today's article, I'm going to talk about 7 dividend stocks I don't mind having in my portfolio and how I'm generating additional semi-passive income by selling put options (or credit spreads) on them.Disclosure: I'm…
This is a quick follow-up post to my original idea of experimenting with writing crypto covered calls on Ethereum and Bitcoin, I started at the end of November 2020This is not the first time…
This article has been in the blog's draft section for a couple of months and as it still bears some useful information I decided to publish as it is with little comments at the…
Now, this is exciting - in the late evening of March 28th, 2019 (GMT) I made my first options trade (s).To get to this point it took me a couple of months and a lot…
