RECENT POST: Sold all my PM shares: Mr. Five Hundred is born!

Cigarettes, that is, lest someone thinks otherwise.

I don’t know that got into me, and i don’t know what got into the market (hello, we’re in a bear market, somebody forgot the script!), but i finally decided to sell me some PM shares. Actually, all of my PM shares.

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RECENT TRADES

 

07/30: Bought 01 PM AUG 55 PUTS for $1.5

07/30: Sold 12 PM AUG 55 PUTS for $2

08/01: Bought 04 PM AUG 50 CALLS for $2.47

08/04: Sold 4 PM AUG 50 CALLS for $3.3 (gain: 33.66%)

08/04: Bought 11 PM TK AUG 55 PUTS for $1.45

08/05: Bought 14 PM TK AUG 55 PUTS for $1.25

Recent articles

Que Horror!!! I just lost $2,000 (-40.16%)!

Yep, indeed i have.

I paid for my over exuberance for the following trades:

08/04:
Buy: 11 PMTK AUG 55
Price: $1.45
Worth: $1,607.10
Base price: $53.99

08/05
Buy: 14 PMTK AUG 55
Price: $1.25
Worth: $1,764.05
Base price: $54.20

Cost Average cost: $1.35

Ah, ignorance is bliss, and costly! What a difference a week makes! My guiding principle last week was
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Can “average” people make money out of Stock/Option market?

This question is one i hold closely to my heart, for i am the very definition of average. Heck i may even be below average! I’m the guy who just sort of coasts through life, neither excelling or failing. No doubt i could’ve been the person who invented the algorithm that now powers Google’s search, but i’m busy being… Ordinary.
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08/08: Gone back to $54, how the mighty have fallen!

Indeed it has! Look at the chart below:

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I never thought making TA charts can be this fun! Looks like i called it correctly before the market opened (click here to read my prediction): PM is going to pull back (and indeed it has) and this time i have the charts to prove it. Looking at the chart above:
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My first foray into technical analysis

Yesternight i went on a technical analysis binge. I was merely looking into Japanese Candlesticks seeing that i always stare at the thing, i realized there’s value in understading the chart as well. (Well, duh)

So i was learning about candle figures with cool names like doji, morningstar, harami, dark cloud and such. The thing is, because i’m such a NOOB one info would lead me into another, and then another, and another.
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I just sold all my PM shares using Trailing Stop

All (last) night long i kept pondering about whether i should get rid of my PM shares, yep that’s right ditch them, and invest in Options instead.

Well, i tried listing all the pros and cons of strictly sticking with Options and have come up with:

PROS

  • Leverage power
  • Higher gains
  • My maximum loss is already known (cost of Option) so the mental fear factor is almost negligible.
  • CONS

  • I don’t get to brag that i “owe a piece of Philip Morris” anymore. =(
  • My dividends are gone.
  • Additional effort needed to learn all the dizzying Options terminologies
  • For all intent and purposes i get to treat my stock are real money equivalents; whereas with Options i need to some extra computations (and i suck at division).
  • Time is always against my side which runs contrary to what investing should be.
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