Good Article on Microsoft (MSFT) and Intel (INTC)

In the course of my reading today I came across an article I'd like to share. Microsoft and Intel are both raising their dividends at healthy clips, are very heavily traded and have great fundamentals. This makes them ideal enhanced income investments assuming one initiates their position when the stock is trading near the bottom of their trading channel. It's interesting to me that some high flyers during the dot com boom are now strong conservative income plays. Look for this gal to trade these issues when the opportunity arises. In fact I initiated a Microsoft investment earlier this afternoon.

Feel the Fear?

Things are getting more interesting as the market drops due to Euro fears. Dividend Champions are dropping in price but after their large run up of late they need to pull back even more before I enter into any new income investments. I've been looking at INTC and COP among others but I'm not seeing obvious opportunities. Come to Momma! :)

Weekly Options

I'm going to open this blog with a post about weekly options. For an income investor who sells options, the advent of weekly options is the greatest thing since sliced bread. For many option income strategies, time decay will be the option sellers best friend. In a weekly option, time value decays extremely fast. In addition, a new option can be sold weekly rather than monthly. (Of course some savvy traders buy and sell an option multiple times in a month as it moves through it's chart's price cycle.)