Three months ago I opened a simple two-legged option position in GLD (https://itawealth.com/is-inflation-risk-likely-to-increase-a-low-cost-option-strategy-for-possible-participation/). This position gave me the option to buy 100 shares in GLD at $120 ($12,000 value) before expiry in March 2021 (12 months away). It cost me $3,500 to acquire the position and this was my maximum risk. Over the past 3 […]
GLD Inflation Play – Option Position Update – 15 May 2020
Rather than adding updates at the bottom of my original post (https://itawealth.com/is-inflation-risk-likely-to-increase-a-low-cost-option-strategy-for-possible-participation/) I will start a new thread to avoid having to scroll down too much. The May 164 Calls that had been sold on this position expired on Friday. I might have watched until the close and let the options expire worthless but, with […]
Is Inflation Risk Likely to Increase? – A Low-Cost Option Strategy for Possible Participation
As long-time ITA members may recall I have often considered taking GLD (Gold) out of my investment “quivers”. The reasons for doing this would be because back-testing has shown that it’s inclusion has not really contributed to portfolio performance over the past ~13 years (pre 2008 recession). Also, GLD does not offer any “compensation”, in […]
TLT Hedge for Rutherford Portfolio
I don’t post many Option trades because I realize that these aren’t of interest to most ITA Wealth members but, as I mentioned in my earlier post (//itawealth.com/rutherford-portfolio-review-tranche-2-31-may-2019/), I am a little concerned about the recent exponential increase in the price of TLT (US Long Term Treasuries) and would like to protect my unrealized gains […]
Hedging Portfolios when Volatility Rises
Regular readers of this blog know that I (personally) do not like using stop loss orders to protect my portfolios. Having said that, if I can’t think of anything better to do I will use stop loss orders because keeping losses to a minimum is an important part of any investment plan – especially as […]
Fun With Options for Income
I haven’t posted anything on Options for a while because I haven’t felt a strong need to insure/protect my portfolios directly – although with markets (major indices) trading at or near all time highs it may soon be prudent to do so. However, in this post I want to describe a couple of simple, low […]
Rutherford Portfolio Hedge – Expiring 14 July, 2017
Although I don’t often use Options to hedge the Rutherford portfolio I have decided to add a short-term hedge as an example of how an “active” trader/investor might try to protect a portfolio and, at the same time, possibly generate a little income. This morning I sold a short term bearish diagonal Call spread in […]
Hawking Portfolio Hedge for July/August 2017
In the past I have used Options to Hedge my Hawking Portfolio. However, over the past 6 months I have not used these hedges – partially because I have been in the process of changing my investment strategies and have not been heavily invested, and partially because I have not felt the need for insurance […]
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