How to Calculate Your Impressive Covered Call Returns

How to Calculate Your Impressive Covered Call Returns

Dear Reader, Talking about investment yields and returns can be confusing, and actually understanding what happens can be even more daunting. However, we are trying to make money on our money, and understanding potential returns – both as percentages and dollars – helps separate good opportunities from those that are less attractive. If you have […]

The Best E-Sports Play Will Hit the Market Soon

The Best E-Sports Play Will Hit the Market Soon

There is no doubt that social networks have completely changed our society. A few generations ago, young people wanted to become teachers, doctors, policemen, or some other type of professional. But no longer: a 2019 survey conducted by Morning Consult showed that more than half of the 2,000 Gen Z and millennials surveyed want to […]

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Three Crypto Stocks to Buy For Miner Exposure

Cryptocurrencies have been red hot. Despite some bumps, bruises, and threats from China, Bitcoin rallied 116% from a low of $28,748 to $62,010 just this year. Over the last four years, it’s up 8,430%…and the run may be far from over. In fact, analysts like Fundstrat’s Tom Lee say we could see $100,000, in the […]

Biggest Mistake New Options Traders Make

Biggest Mistake New Options Traders Make

Every time I send out a trading alert for 11-Day Trader, I always get comments & questions like: “Well, Serge, you could’ve done this trade… or that trade…why didn’t you?” And yes, with options you have a dozen different strategies at your disposal. But none of the strategies will make you money. In fact, you’re […]

Buy Coca-Cola and Smile

Buy Coca-Cola and Smile

Coca-Cola (KO) is an iconic brand that has been in business since the late 1880s, when it began to manufacture its eponymous drink. Now a Fortune 500 company, Coca-Cola also produces a number of carbonated beverages that include not just Coke, but also Fanta, Sprite, and Schweppes, as well as the tea brands Gold Peak […]

Hedging Is More Important Than You Think

Hedging Is More Important Than You Think

One thing that I’ve learned in the many years that I’ve traded options is that most investors hate hedging.  It’s not the idea of hedging (i.e., protecting a portfolio’s downside) that’s the issue.  It’s the cost.  Hedging can be expensive over time. Investors generally are not fans of things that are meant to lose money […]

Trade of the Week: EEM

Trade of the Week: EEM

Sometimes, a useful method for finding good trades to make is looking at what other people are doing. For instance, we can easily search for large covered call trades in order to get trade ideas. One interesting covered call trade in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EEM) will boost the return from holding the ETF […]