Collars are protective strategies involving options that are used after a long position in a security has already achieved a significant increase. Investors use the collar strategy through the purchase of out-of-the-money put options and the selling of out-of-the-money call options. This techniques is also known as hedge-wrapping. In general investing terms a collar is […]
Day 72 of the $583 Challenge -$4.4k All right guys, so time for our midday marker recap. Today is a red day recap and this is a day that I am admittedly much more frustrated than I am on Most red days. Most red days I’m just kind of like, “Red day’s annoying,” but I […]
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Day 71 of the $583.15 Challenge +766.32 All right guys, so time for a midday market recap, we’ll go over the trades from today. We’re back from the long weekend and this was, for me, not an easy day at all. I feel like I started the day just on the wrong note. Anyways, let’s […]
The whole point of investing is to find an investment trading at a price that is either too high or too low from where it should be. One who can capitalize on this can start to make a lot of money for themselves. The trouble is trying to determine when a price is out of […]
Perhaps one of the scariest sounding terms on Wall Street is the “death cross”. That combines two words that you never want to hear in your everyday life, but they have a particular meaning on Wall Street. If you play it a certain way you may even be able to profit from it. The […]
3 Ways To Tell If Stock Is Bottoming Traders and investors well versed with the business know that it’s better to purchase assets (stocks, options and ETFs) after they decline rather than when they have risen. Buying assets when they are priced low may seem like a wise strategy because you think profits are […]
Day 70 of the $583 Challenge -$1k All right, guys. Time for a midday market recap. Let me go over the trades from today. Today is another just really slow day in the market. It’s a little annoying, I guess. the day down $1003. A little bit of a pull back today. Second red day […]
There Is No Such Thing As Perfection If you’ve read some of my blog posts, you already know that approaching failure is something that’s really important to me. Ultimate success has nothing to do with perfection. In fact, there is no such thing as perfection. Unless you have a time machine, there is no […]
Day 69 of the $583 Challenge -$7k We’re going to do a little mid-day market recap, go over the trades from today. This is day 69 of the 100K challenge, or the $583 challenge. It’s not a good day. This is actually one of the worst days I’ve had of the year and it’s […]
