No Fear Today

The market is acting a bit like a bull market as of late with lower volatility and mostly trending upward. This makes it hard for a gal to swoop in and invest while others are selling. History says that patience will be rewarded especially in a debt ridden world. In the meantime time decay is working in the option sellers favor.

Precious metals seem to be taking a bit of a breather today and with all the money printing, quantitative easing and the like it's hard to be bearish. Many of my precious metal ETF calls are now deep in the money. This makes rolling for a credit a little more challenging.

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! :)

Sage Investment Advice

This quote is taken from the mentor of a well known investment guru:

"The secret to investing and growing one's money is to earn small monthly amounts through options on large cap companies that pay a dividend, have strong balance sheets, good growth prospects and have options available."

Ooooh....that's some HOT advice :)