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Sep 3, 2023 | Sep 1, 2023 All Posts

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 Essential Tips for Options Trading

Economic Outlook Supporting My 2023 Vertical Spreads

Today, the S&P 500 is only 4% away from our pre-COVID high of 4,776 – the start of all this market management lunacy. Any new Vertical Bull Put Credit Spread I open in the next couple of months will hopefully trigger..

Feb 24, 2023 | Feb 24, 2023 Trade Trudging

Index of S&P 500 Companies Trading Above Their 200-Day SMA

This month's Trading Journal commentary will review a new chartable index - tracking the number of S&P 500 companies trading above their 200-Day Simple Moving Average (SMA). Below I charted the S&P over the past 20 years and annotated some..

Oct 31, 2022 | Oct 30, 2022 Trade Trudging

Hunt for Red November

Economically, we are a Socialistically Regulated Capitalistic Economy - and we have been since the 1800s. The 14th Amendment, passed in 1868, set the stage for using Federal Regulations to implement Socialistic reforms. And, every two years, the legal citizens..

Jul 29, 2022 | Jul 25, 2022 Business Administration

Antsy Trade Trudging

The US economy is being swept into a recession. But instead of continuing to pile out of the markets, it appears that fear-fatigue has set in as Marketeers seem antsy to get back in the fray. So, this week is..

Jul 20, 2022 | Jul 15, 2022 All Posts

Ragnarok – The Progressive Economy

The Progressive movement is primarily about ushering in a socialist economy. This has been a movement for many years, and the COVID crisis gave the movement the bold opening it needed. Has the Progressive movement unleashed an economic Ragnarok? Table..

Jul 8, 2022 | Jul 8, 2022 Trade Trudging

Help Wanted: Unifier-in-Chief

The Politics of Division has put our country in a bleak, dark, and scary funk. Where is Reagan's "shining city on a hill?" What happened to Obama's "There are no Red States, no Blue States, just the United States?" We..

Jun 24, 2022 | Jun 24, 2022 All Posts

Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered

Excessive greed, impatience, and naïveté are the bane of all Marketeers. When we take on excessive and misguided risk, we eventually get slaughtered. It is the mission of every Marketeer to understand when to use the appropriate Option strategies. Table..

May 21, 2022 | May 20, 2022 Trade Trudging

Deep Dive into a Bear Market

Correction to recession to stagnation. Inevitable you say? I'm thinking so. I'm starting a deep dive into Vertical Bear Call Option Spreads as I believe we are already caught in the mauls of a Bear Market. Table of Content Commentary..

Rolling QQQ Vertical Spreads - Deja Vu all over again

Apr 29, 2022 | Apr 29, 2022 All Posts

Rolling ITM QQQ Vertical Spread – Deja Vu All Over Again

I have two deep ITM QQQ Vertical Spreads that I have already rolled twice. And one of these expires this Friday. Should I roll a third time? If I do, I can't help to feel it will be a hopeless..