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The Complete Guide to Poor Man’s Covered Puts – Trade in IWM
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Today I want to discuss a bearish income strategy that allows you to define your risk while simultaneously using less capital. The strategy is known as a poor man’s covered put.
(more…)One Hundred Thousand
There are times when people have shared with me screen shots of their balance page from their brokerage or crypto accounts. I didn’t ask to see it, but there it is, like an unexpected dick pic. This isn’t the kind of thing I normally do, since I consider it absolutely gauche, but I’m going to make an exception for a special reason. This is regarding my own crypto account, and I’m going to start off with this chart of my equity:
Pee Pee Eye
Powell has continuously offered the canard that, yes, trillions of dollars of fresh fiat have been thrown into the market (mostly his banking buddies), but, magically, inflation will just be a blip. Well, month after month of data seems to be contradicting that, as this morning’s latest report indicates.
The Three Dows
I look at 37 ETF charts every day, and three of them are based on the largest and best-known Dow Jones indexes. Let’s take a quick look at all three.
The first, and best know is the DIA or “diamonds”. As of Thursday’s close (which is when I’m composing this post) this has been moving steady-Freddy, not even challenging its short-term trendline. You can see where the rounded top almost broke down (horizontal line), but all Powell had to do was pick up the phone.
