Seasonality refers to cyclical “patterns” that may repeat over defined periods of time. These periods/cycles occur regularly and last anywhere from a few days, e.g. 7-day Santa Claus rally that might occur in December/January every year, to longer term, e.g. 4-yr Presidential cycle. Some investors believe that this “seasonality” is tradeable. Most Investors reading this […]
Options Corner – 17 October 2020
I have not made any adjustments to my “portfolio hedge” position since 6 October (https://itawealth.com/options-corner-19-september-2020/) but, with the October Options expiring last Friday it is time to take a look at the remaining position. SPY traded around the $350 level for most of last week and I had to “sweat it out” a bit because […]
GLD Options Inflation Play – 16 October 2020 Update
There haven’t been any adjustments to the GLD inflation position over the past month as GLD prices have remained relatively unchanged. However my October short Calls expired on Friday so I rolled them out 2 weeks to the October 30 expiry date and at the same $185 strike. I am hoping that, at that time […]
Options Corner – 19 September 2020
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 […]
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