Today I want to look at a few simple ways to increase your odds of making money from selling options. Option selling, i.e. selling cash secured puts, is my primary strategy to generate income from my trading portfolio. I talked about the details of my strategy in this post. The […]
Its been a while since I’ve talked about option selling as an income strategy. Actually, my first and only post on the topic was back in mid November of 2010. With the US stock market on a nice uptrend since that time and with volatility being low it hasn’t been […]
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Welcome the Economic Pulse about page. Here we’ll take you through what we’re trying to do, why it matters, and the impact it can have on your investment results. In Econ Pulse, we are primarily focused on doing the following. If you prefer I’ve put together a short screencast the covers […]
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Time for my annual post updating statistics for the various portfolios that I track. This is the last post rounding up 2020 statistics. All portfolio stats were gathered using AllocateSmartly, P123, and various other sites like MSCI. Obviously, there are many more portfolio options out there. This is just a sampling […]
In today’ post, I’ll formally outline a model I’ve alluded to several times in the past, the VOL-COMP model. The model is a combination of the SPY-COMP model (which is the basis for all the models in the Economic Pulse Newsletter) and the VOL Curve Original model with several enhancements. While […]
Recently, I have received a bunch of questions on the volatility curve model that I introduced a few months back. In this post I wanted to answer a few key questions on the model. Current Status What has the model done during this most recent period? The details are for […]
Time for my annual post updating statistics for the various portfolios that I track. This is the last post rounding up 2019 statististics. All portfolio stats were gathered using AllocateSmartly, P123, various other sites like MSCI, and the wonder that is Excel. Obviously, there are many more portfolio options out there. […]
Update: added comparison to SPY-COMP. This post introduces a quant trading model based on volatility. More specifically it uses the prices of volatility futures contracts based on the SP500 to make risk-on and risk-off decisions that can be used to trade various risk-assets. Why Volatility? There is a bunch of […]