Friday, November 8, 2024
It’s earnings season, so you know there’s going to be plenty of options activity. Last week, we saw blowout earnings from Facebook (FB), which is up to 3.5 billion users worldwide across its varies products. FB posted way better revenue and earnings than expected. A trader is attempting to profit from the good news using […]
I get to communicate with a lot of investors. Many express fears about a potential stock market crash, primarily triggered by eyeball-seeking financial news sources. Sure, investors should plan for the next market downturn…but to use a fighter pilot expression, pulling the ejection handle is not the answer. After graduating from the U.S. Air Force […]
Earning money from investing is great, but earning an income is better. We’ll discuss income investing and where to look for investments.
I’m on the road this week working remote, however, I still wanted to share this important update of what I’m seeing. May usually begins choppiness in many markets… And there’s one particular area of the market I see a potential 5% pullback. That’s not to sound warning bells…but more to alert you of a potential […]
My Dividend Hunter service provides a list of high-yield investments to build an income-focused portfolio. Many closed-end funds pay very high yields, so the conflux of my focus on high yield and investors discovering closed-end funds (CEFs) leads to many questions from my subscribers about specific funds. Let me share what I think about the […]
Luminar Technologies (LAZR) became a publicly traded company in November 2020 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and rose more than 30% in its debut. Shares eventually surged to a high of $47.80 just 13 trading days after going public, but are now trading in the high teens. Although it might be too early […]
When buying options, it’s generally a good idea to keep the capital outlay to a minimum whenever possible, because options typically lose value at a regular rate due to time decay. As such, minimizing the option premium paid (the cost) is essentially the same as lowering risk. Using vertical spreads is one way to take […]
According to the National Institutes of Health, an estimated 7% of U.S. adults, or approximately 19 million, experience MDD each year, as reported by Axsome Therapeutics (AXSM). In addition, “according to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide, and is a major contributor to the overall global burden of […]
You can be your own capital gains calculator to prepare for your tax bill. Read on for how to calculate and minimize capital gains taxes.
After dropping out of the spotlight in recent months, option trading in Nikola (NKLA) is back. The electric truck designer is expecting to install hydrogen filling stations in CA, and the stock jumped nearly 15% on the day the news broke. Considering the company hasn’t produced anything meaningful to date, the crowd took this as […]
