Crocs, Inc (CROX) makes the ugliest shoes in the world and the sell like mad. My brother, who doesn’t invest in stocks, has been encouraging me to get into CROX (the stock, not the ugly shoes) since it was in the low 70s. CROX is trading at 85.31 as I write this. He mentioned it again last…
You have to love diversification!
Only one of my 10 options gained value today and both of my stocks gained and yet I finished the day up $93. That’s the beauty of diversification. I knew I should have bought my AAPL covered call back this morning when the stock was only up a dollar and change. I saw that a…
Covered Calls – Free Excel Spreadsheet for ROI
I just added a new free spreadsheet to my Excel Spreadsheets section. This one shows Return on Investment (ROI) for covered calls. I’m pretty sure I have it right to cover ITM or OTM calls. Since I use Ameritrade, those are the commissions I used in my formulas. Please let me know if you see any…
Charting the Dow ($INDU)
Check out the attached weekly chart of the Dow Industrial ($INDU) for the past year. I look at it every week with the idea that the Dow is still an indictator of the overall market’s direction. We’ll see how my analysis goes with this and I’ll start posting regular charts of the Dow if I…
End of the Month Summary
These are my returns according to Quicken: Last 12 Months 29.19% Annualized YTD: 43.50% Current Year Not Annualized: 14.46% Account Value: $53,588.30 Cash: $37,101.20 (deposited $7,000 on 5/1) I’m still only 150% invested (my goal is 200%), but have been busier than usual at work and haven’t had time to dig deeper to find stocks that fit my trading criteria. …
Barron’s Stock Picks – Time for Tech?
In the May 28th issue of Barron’s, Tiernan Ray wrote an interesting article entitled “Summer Meltdown Unlikely for Tech”. I’ll list some of the highlights and quickly move to this picks I thought were worth a closer look. All investors know the cliche, sell in May and go away. Tech stocks don’t typically do well…
Joy Global, Inc (JOYG) pays off
The last thing I thought I’d be seeing when I checked my account during lunch was that I’d be up over $300 for the day so far. I thought the sorrows of China would carry over to us for more than a few hours. My biggest gainer of the day is Joy Global, Inc. (Ticker: JOYG). …
How much should a vacation cost?
We’re trying to plan for our next big vacation and I started to wonder how much should we spend on a vacation. For various reasons we haven’t been on a vacation in four years and we came back from that one pregnant. We missed vacations over the past few years due to being pregnant, having…
Option Trade on Monsanto (MON) – Naked Put
I hate Monsanto’s practice of creating Frankenfood, but the company is a cash flow machine with a huge future of bringing in more money for investors. I don’t recall if I read about MON in Smart Money or Barron’s and will update this sentence when I find the article. MON is growing and has some…