Tag: options trading
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Day 433 of 1000: Self-Formation through Repetition
What you do repeatedly forms you. More on Peter Sloterdijk’s anthropotechnics. This week: dog fostering, options trading, reading, swimming.
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Day 426 of 1000: The Art of Becoming
Becoming an artist and realizing who I am as an artist. Upcoming action in foster dogs, tv watching, and calls for entry.
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Day 420 of 1000: Options Wheeling ETFs
Moving my options wheel trading towards ETFs instead of individual stocks, to seek less volatility and overall better returns.
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Day 418 of 1000: On Accidental Complexity and Silver Bullets
From the classic Fred Brooks essay No Silver Bullets: on accidental complexity, geographic cures, and the irreducible difficulty of options trading.
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Day 415 of 1000: Improving on the Options Wheel
A couple tweaks to the options wheel in which you sell puts until assigned, then sell covered calls. The one I like: using bear put spreads on margin instead.
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Day 384 of 1000: Commencing Sedentary Lifestyle
Last week, I had vitrectomy with epiretinal membrane removal to address macular pucker. This week, I’m focused on healing, trading, and insightful fiction.
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Day 383 of 1000: Analyzing Major and Minor Trends to Find Short Put Candidates
Reviewing Arthur Sklarew’s introduction to major and minor trends in analyzing asset price charts, and applying them to finding short put candidates.
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Day 378 of 1000: Metis in the Markets
Calling on the pre-Olympian goddess Metis to bring me practical wisdom and skills as I develop my own options trading playbook.
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Day 373 of 1000: Eliminating Greed and Fear
Greed and fear is an inherent part of financial markets. How I’m eliminating it from my options trading approach.
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Day 370 of 1000: Creating My Own hedge Management System
I’ve started trading options and realized I needed a systematic way to put in place hedges, to guard against market corrections and to improve realized returns.
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Day 368 of 1000: An Investing Epiphany
You can improve portfolio’s realized returns by adding a hedge that reduces portfolio variance, even if the hedge has negative expected returns on its own!
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Day 362 of 1000: Irises Don’t Always Bloom
My transplanted irises didn’t bloom this year, and yesterday my options portfolio revealed I was swimming without a life preserver. Loving my floral and financial fate.
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Day 356 of 1000: Burning Up Instead of Burning Out
King of Wands Tarot making me think of how a fire that burns everything to ashes could make for a pretty good story.
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Day 350 of 1000: Investing in Oil Futures
So many ways to get exposure to increases in oil and other commodity prices. A new one I’m going to try soon.
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Day 344 of 1000: Backcasting for Improving Decision-Making
In her book Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke suggests you don’t just forecast outcomes but try backcasting. Imagine good and bad outcomes and how you might get there.
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Day 336 of 1000: Celebrating My Intellectual Insecurity
I’m moving from the options wheel to options trading strategies that address and ameliorate tail risk. My insecurity protects me.
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Day 326 of 1000: Randomness and the Wheel
Taleb has said he never sells options contracts, only buys them. But he also says if something works, it’s not stupid. So I’m continuing to sell puts.
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Day 322 of 1000: The Options Wheel for Income Generation
The options wheel can generate returns equal to or better than passive beta investing, but be careful of where we are in the stock market cycle.