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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 Trade Trudging

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..

Sep 3, 2023 | Jun 30, 2023 All Posts

Out Perform the S&P 500 – Woo-Hoo!

My CND compels me to measure my Options income to gauge whether I’m making money or wasting my time. After a year of ill-reporting my P&L, I made one minor D’oh correction. I’m now relieved to see that my Vertical Bull..

Exit Rules for Yearly Vertical Bull Put Credit Spreads

Sep 3, 2023 | May 26, 2023 Essential Tips for Options Trading

Exit Rules – Yearlys Vertical Bull Put Credit Spreads

I still have the goal of a monthly income, I still believe I can do so with Vertical Credit Spreads, and I still desire to be nerdy about it all. So here are my new Exit Rules for Yearly Vertical..

Jul 20, 2022 | Jul 15, 2022 Trade Trudging

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 All Posts

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..

Jul 1, 2022 | Jun 30, 2022 All Posts

Beware the “Bull Trap”

In my longing to see a sustained market rebound, I have to be careful not to confuse the beginning of a new bull market with a bull trap. Table of Content Commentary - Beware the Bull TrapThis Week's Market SentimentEcopolitical..

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..

Oct 6, 2022 | Jun 17, 2022 All Posts

Vertical Spreads Entry Rules – Matrix Table

In this week's Journal Entry, I plan to create a consolidated matrix for my Vertical Spread's Entry Rules. I want one easy table for Bull Put Credit Spreads, Bear Call Credit Spreads, and Iron Condors. Then I plan to take..

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Jun 3, 2022 | May 30, 2022 All Posts

Trade Ranting

There are a lot of geopolitical issues on our nation's plate this year. We have historic economic woes, a watershed Supreme Court ruling, and a political revolution that appears set to jettison the Progressive Political Experiment this coming November. So,..