Starting a new year of options It has been a decent good start to the new year. I earned $3,607 in net premiums from trading options. About half of this amount came from my 2 weekly trading challenges that I share on Twitter and YouTube. For my Google options challenge, I’m trying to make a 50% annual return.… Read More »
Not the best year for investors The collective net worth of Canadians fell by $332 billion in the third quarter of this year. That’s about $8,700 per person. If we annualize this amount it comes out to roughly $35,000. Unfortunately RBC is forecasting further decline to net worth until the second quarter of 2023. Asset prices across… Read More »
Signs of financial stress. The effects of higher interest rates have a 6 to 12 month lag period before showing up in the general economy. It appears we’re seeing those related issues now. A Canadian real estate lender has recently halted redemptions on its fund. This means investors can’t get their money out which is a pretty big… Read More »
It wasn’t a good month for options trading. 😅 I’m basically flat for the entire month. I was doing okay for the most part. But then I shorted a put spread on Meta stock before earnings and unfortunately they disappointed investors so much the stock fell 24% the next day which really hurt my P&L. 🙁 The… Read More »
Yes, it still makes sense to use leverage today. Let me explain… 🙂 Leverage in a higher interest rate environment My margin interest rate used to be just 1.8% last year. Borrowing money at this low rate to buy stocks was a no brainer since the stock market returns on average way more than that. However, today my… Read More »
John C. “Jack” Bogle was an investor and philanthropist who founded the Vanguard Group and pioneered index investing. Vanguard has become one of the largest investment management companies in the world with about $7 trillion of assets under management. Bogle built Vanguard as essentially a non-profit organization because it is owned by the investors in its funds. Credited… Read More »