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I’m a preternaturally good worrier, and as we bring to a close to this sensational quarter (at least the part that started on August 17th, so let’s call the most recent eighth of a year sensational), I am wringing my hands, as I always do, about what could go wrong. After all, the bears have been dominating in a way unseen since 2008.
Why am I messing around with boring-ass options that don’t expire for 121 days? Why am I not trading all the action today? Because…………….I don’t enjoy being chopped into HAMBURGER!!
Let me share a personal experience and hope you and I can both learn something from it.
I’m not sure precisely when it began, but this premium post from March 7th is a good place to start. In the post, I make it abundantly clear that the real estate fund IYR is one of my favorite analogs of all time (using such words as “crazy about this analog” and “just ga-ga”). I’m certain this wasn’t my first post about it, but it is at least one where I put a stake very firmly in the ground that I am bonkers about the IYR short.
