Last week I presented a number of Option positions that might be used to hedge a portfolio. The only way to “perfectly” hedge a portfolio is to buy a Put Option – but, as we saw ( https://itawealth.com/options-corner-11-september-2020/ ) this can get expensive. A 3-month ATM Put Option on SPY might cost ~$2,000 and this […]
Options Corner – 11 September 2020
In this week’s Options corner I will take a look at how we might use Options to hedge our portfolios. Of course, the simplest way to do this would be to just buy a Put Option – but is this the best/most effective way to protect ourselves? Let’s take a look at this and the […]
Options Corner – 4 September 2020
Since I started to build my portfolio hedge position using SPY Options we have seen quite bit of price movement. When I started to build this position SPY was trading at ~$340 and it moved up to the $350 level in the first week – where I added some new “legs” to the position. In […]
GLD Options Inflation Play – 03 September 2020 Update
This post is an update of my Inflation play positions in Gold (GLD) as described in previous posts (https://itawealth.com/is-inflation-risk-likely-to-increase-a-low-cost-option-strategy-for-possible-participation/. https://itawealth.com/gld-option-position-update-15-may-2020/, https://itawealth.com/gld-options-inflation-play-08-july-2020-update/, https://itawealth.com/new-position-in-gld-as-a-longer-term-inflation-play/). This started by risking ~$3,500 to control 100 shares of GLD in the expectation of higher prices in GLD over the longer term and, through the re-investment of profits (without increasing risk) has […]
Hawking Portfolio Review – 31 August 2020
The Hawking Portfolio is a portfolio of Funds with diversification through “growth” objectives and “income” objectives. Let’s check on recent performance: where we see a relatively smooth equity curve with the portfolio nicely outperforming its VTTVX benchmark. So, let’s first check on the “growth” portion of the portfolio whose quiver is made up from 40 […]
Dirac Portfolio Review – 31 August 2020
I’m reviewing the Dirac Portfolio mid-day today so as to avoid severe overload of information as End-Of-Month (EOM) reviews become due. We’ll start with a quick look at the Dirac Portfolio quiver that is comprised of 40 stocks (rather than ETFs) that are considered for inclusion in the portfolio: At the present time the portfolio […]
Options Corner – 29 August 2020
In last week’s Options Corner (https://itawealth.com/options-corner-24-august-2020/) I started to build a “position” in SPY (S&P 500) Options and, with a ~$10 move higher in the price of SPY I have added a few more “legs” to the “position” over the past few days. In this post I will update the position and introduce you to […]
Options Corner – 24 August 2020
I realize that most “Investors” are not all that interested in trading Options – in which case you can just skip this post and move on to the next. However, from an educational point of view they can be very informative and provide a leveraged way to play in the markets with controlled risk. In […]
- 1
- 2
- 3
- …
- 26
- Next Page »