In 2012, I decided to help 2 of my friends with their new venture. It sounded exciting and poised for success. I knew the founders since 6-7 years. Sales projections looked great and we were just waiting to complete the product while we had a bunch of potential clients lined up. Fast forward to 2016...
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Where do i see myself in 2016? What will I do differently? What did I learn from 2015? What things from last year I want to let go and what new goals I want to set for myself? With these questions I start my new year....
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This is something every value investor tries to figure out. How much is a business worth?

I wanted to put together the analysis I do while investing long term. Long term investing is a totally different game. Companies that survive crashes are the ones that grow rapidly....
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In the past 7 months, I have gained a lot of exposure to trading options. I started getting my feet wet when I started this blog. But now, I have tested with and tried to understand the price movements of options in relation to the movements of underlying stock, and how it ties together with the time value, etc....
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I have started looking into motifinvesting.com recently. The concept is interesting. You can select some stocks (1-30), create a "motif" and invest money in the motif. There are also a lot of motifs created by motifinvesting and the community, representing ideas like Chinese Solar, Biotech, 3D Printing, etc....
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Commissions can really eat up into your profits. I should have looked at this much before I started trading actively. But, looks like Etrade is not the best place to do active trading (or at least buy-write) with the amount I am trying to trade. I looked up at the commission of other traders and looks like Interactive Brokers is the most competitive out there....
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I tested another strategy today. Called the Buy-Write. In this strategy, trader buys a stock and simultaneously sells the options for the stock. If the options expire, trader keeps the premium and stock, else trader keeps the premium and sells the options as strike price. Pretty simple in principle. This post will only be discussing the buy-write strategy....
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I am getting very confident about the covered call strategy, the more I think about it. I wrote 2 more covered calls today. KO and T, just out of the money. Fingers crossed. T was going down and KO was moving up. The call of KO is sept 27 and call for T is sept 20....
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I did my first options trade today. I have been studying the theory since some time. While executing it, I was wondering all the time that why did I not try this earlier. It seems safe. Actually, a good way to generate income if you understand how this works....
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