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June 2017 Dividends — 6 Comments

  1. Very nice month John. Of course your employer has to throw a wrench in the plan they use. I’m sure the headache on your end will be well worth the pennies the company is saving in the long run. Glad to see that your 457k funds are getting to a comfortable level for you. Now, it is on to the next goal and the next milestone. Keep on pushing and keep the good times rolling.

    Bert

  2. Hi John, spent an hour or so looking through your blog including the monthly income posts to see that you are rotating the holdings quite a bit, sell as well as buy back or add to the same positions.

    From your ‘about me’ you mention your trading philosophy is using as many available ways playing the stock market. Could you tell us, are the rotations due primarily to selling options on your positions that likely get called, as well as on the same stock symbol you are also selling naked PUT’s. Which kind of stock [types] are you shorting, would you also be holding a position on any stocks that you also short?

    With you having done this now for a few years & likely experienced the up/down of what works for you, what trading strategy have you found the least winning trades? Is it finding Hi yield dividend stocks that you also sell CALL’s on & doing that, are you selling CALL’s ‘in the money ITM’, at the money ATM’ or out of the money OTM’?

    On your SPY purchase, what are you doing with this position?

    Appreciate any response or discussion.

    Thanks

    • When I first started out I did some options but I found I wasn’t very good at it so now I mostly just buy and sell individual stocks.

      I do have a margin account. If I feel a stock is going to do bad, like FTR at the moment, I will short it, but I don’t do that much.

      Most of what I find myself doing now is trying to build up a monthly dividend. SPY for me is kind of a benchmark stock for me. I use that to measure if I am beating or losing to the stock market in general.

      Thank you for stopping by do you keep a blog?

      • Thanks for the fast response. On options on underlying stocks – what I found successful on stocks that have dividends as well as decent open interest with LEAP’s is to sell a long covered call ITM to protect the downside & up the dividend rate

        On SPY, DIA, QQQ these have great volume as well as options open interest.

        I’ve been following, watching, now waiting till after July 17 when UVXY & SVXY stock split – consolidation. Possibly a vertical spread or a buy then sell covered calls & naked Put’s.

        As you posted in your ‘about me’ there is more to playing the market than ‘buy & hold’ even if it’s just for dividends.

        Good luck to you & I look forward to reading your regular updates

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