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May 15, 2024 | May 15, 2024 All Posts

First Contact complete: Debriefing My Five-Year Mission into The Passive Income Frontier

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship… uh… Longshot. Our five-year mission: to boldly explore the uncharted territories of Vertical Spreads, to seek out new income streams (and promptly watch them fizzle), to boldly lose… er,..

Dec 31, 2023 | Dec 8, 2023 All Posts

A 5-Year Performance Review Selling Vertical Spreads (2019 – 2023)

As I recount my 5-year journey in the world of Vertical Bull Put Credit Spreads, I liken the strategy to the seductive but ultimately unfulfilling Mrs. Robinson. I shared my struggles, doubts, and moments of despair. Yet, small victories always..

Dec 1, 2023 | Dec 1, 2023 Business Administration

Not So Quicken – New Schwab Accounts Download to Quicken

My Ameritrade accounts were transferred to Charles Schwab on the weekend of Nov 3. And for the better part of this month, I’ve been picking up the pieces. I felt like Carl Fredricksen in a slow slog, trudging towards my..

Nov 24, 2023 | Nov 24, 2023 All Posts

How to Connect Excel with Thinkorswim

How do you connect Schwab's Thinkorswim (TOS) desktop trading platform with your Excel spreadsheet? How about how to use the Thinkorswim RTD commands to live stream data into your Excel Watch List? Even better, how about downloading my Excel Options..

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Oct 27, 2023 | Oct 27, 2023 All Posts

Why Bother Selling Vertical Bull Put Credit Spreads?

With the US deficit approaching $2 trillion this year, inflation at a gut-buster 17.5% above 2020's consumer prices, interest rates at a stifling 5.25%, expanding military involvement in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, a dangerously polarized population, a politically..

Sep 29, 2023 | Sep 29, 2023 All Posts

Ameritrade To Charles Schwab Merger – What Should I Expect?

In this month’s Trade Journal post, I want to explore what to expect when my TdAmeritrade accounts are transferred to the Charles Schwab platform. There’s going to be a little sphincter tightening for me until the transfers are completed. Table..

Sep 3, 2023 | Sep 1, 2023 Trade Trudging

Bidenomics Dances the Shipoopi (Bipoopinomics)

Has “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” been supplanted with “Inclusion, Equity and the pursuit of Climate-Justice?” It seems like Bidenomics is dancing the Shipoopi with Lady Liberty - Bipoopinomics Table of Content Commentary - Bipoopiomics This Month's Market..

Jul 28, 2023 | Jul 28, 2023 All Posts

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First Contact complete: Debriefing My Five-Year Mission into The Passive Income Frontier

A 5-Year Performance Review Selling Vertical Spreads (2019 – 2023)

Not So Quicken – New Schwab Accounts Download to Quicken

How to Connect Excel with Thinkorswim

Why Bother Selling Vertical Bull Put Credit Spreads?

Ameritrade To Charles Schwab Merger – What Should I Expect?

Bidenomics Dances the Shipoopi (Bipoopinomics)

Economic Outlook Supporting My 2023 Vertical Spreads

Out Perform the S&P 500 – Woo-Hoo!

Exit Rules – Yearlys Vertical Bull Put Credit Spreads