Hey,
Ok, we stayed with the GLD yet again this week. But we did something a lot different. We did a directional trade as we watched the market go down as GLD went up then we tried the directional trade to follow the trend.
School starts for the younger two kids Monday morning. They have a half day the first day and then the rest of the week is a full day. Hard to believe the summer is over already.
ANALYSIS
Dow Jones Index Weekly Chart
GLD Weekly Chart
Here is the trade we had on last week:
Bought GLD 129.50 Call $ (0.07)
Sold GLD 129.50 Call $ 0.44 This gave a 528.57% ROI
This is a trade that I do not do often. I only risked $175 on this trade for 25 contracts. But we did well with this making $37 per contract for $925. I did only a minimum amount of contracts and risked $ because this is not a trade I do very much. So if it went wrong I didn’t have that much exposure.
Here is the chart action and rationale behind the trade:
1. Most of the week the price stayed almost the same.
2. When the US stock price action dropped as a result of the US interest rate increases the GLD price along with gold started to rise.
3. The second day of the price decline in stocks was on Thursday. That is when I put on the trade. I bought early in the morning and sold just before the close.
4. Starting Tuesday afternoon the Dow started losing traction ultimately falling 15,483 to 15,082 – 400 points this week. This time the GLD acted like it should, when the Dow drops big GLD goes up.
5. Wednesday was a big pop that I didn’t do because I was trying to determine market direction. While I waited to see the option premium on the put side disappeared. Also as I was waiting to see if the direction had indeed changed the rest of the stocks and ETFs option premium disappeared as well. This meant the only way to do anything at all was a directional trade.
6. The only place I was comfortable with was the GLD.
7. So shortly after the market opened on Thursday I put on the trade.
PAPER TRADE
There are no paper trades on at this time.
COVERED CALLS
We still have our covered calls on Vivus and CBI again.
Symbol Company Stock Option Premium Initial Annualized
VVUS Vivus 12.28 Aug16 .33 2,676.00 14.79%
CBI Chicago Bridge
These are the completed covered call trades this year:
Symbol Month Premium Month ROI Ann Month ROI Cum Prem Cum An ROI
VVUS January $32 1.19% 14.35% $32 14.35%
VVUS February $63 2.35% 25.25% $95 21.30%
VVUS March $28 1.05% 12.56% $123 13.79%
VVUS April $29 1.08% 13.00% $152 17.04%
VVUS May $44 1.64% 11.51% $196 14.64%
VVUS June $16 0.597% 7.17% $212 15.84%
VVUS July $20 0.747% 8.96% $232 14.86%
VVUS Aug $33 1.233% 14.79% $265 14.85%
CBI January $50 1.12% 13.39%
CBI March $125 2.31% 27.73% $175 12.94%
CBI April $230 4.05% 48.67% $405 7.14%
CBI June $45 0.831% 9.98% $450 8.42%
VVUS – We have made a good deal of option premium on this stock, I just wish that we had gotten into this stock at a lower entry. We are losing our shirt on this right now due to a poor entry point. All the analysts following this stock have rated it at least a “Hold” with no analyst rating it an ”Underperform” or “Sell”. This seems odd to me as the stock has lost literally halsf its value over the past year. This is our speculative play so that is why I keep it. We are getting great dividend income from it even with the high entry point.
CBI – We did not put on a covered call this month. Just could not get the risk/reward to go in our favor. I am looking at on for the September expiry.
This is the cumulative covered call results for 2013:
Symbol Invested $ Option Prem Call Away Div Total Return
VVUS $2,676.00 $ 265 $265 9.90%
CBI $4,480.00 $ 50 $320 $370 8.26%
CBI $5,409.00 $ 400 $ 91 $10.00 $501 9.35%
Totals $12.925.00 $682 $411 $10.00 $1,116 8.63%
So far we are having a good year with the covered call portfolio. 8.63% return is a good show for the year. That 12.95% return for the year. I will take that any day of the week!!
DIVIDEND STOCKS
Here are the two portfolios updated.
This portfolio is an income portfolio made up of 100 shares of each stock. These stocks are some blue chips, some Business Development Companies (BDCs), Closed End Funds (CEFs) and some small caps that look like they will grow. Some of these I have talked about before, some not. I will give a brief note on each of them in the coming weeks:
Ticker Name Buy Current Div Pay Div
Price Price Date Yield
PSEC Prospect Capital 10.68 10.89 08/29/2013 11.96%
AGD Alpine Global Dynamic 4.84 4.64 08/29/2013 7.43%
TCPC TCP Capital 15.28 15.11 08/29/2013 8.99%
MO Altria 34.26 34.29 10/10/2013 5.17%
T ATT 37.34 34.18 11/01/2013 4.82%
ARCP Am. Realty Capital 16.69 12.94 09/15/2013 5.37%
GLAD Gladstone Capital 8.98 8.34 08/31/2013 9.35%
STI Sun Trust Bank 29.37 34.60 09/14/2013 1.36%
WFC Wells Fargo 37.74 42.75 09/01/2013 3.18%
KKR KKR & Co Units 20.77 19.37 08/21/2013 6.39%
Buy Price Portfolio Value = $21,595.00
Current Price Portfolio Value = $21,960.29
Gain/(Loss) So Far = $365.29
Portfolio Return = 1.69%
Dividends Received So Far = $305.32
Portfolio Return w/ Dividends = 3.11%
Current Prices as of 08/16/2013 Closing Price
We keep our dividend moat portfolio. I have made the new portfolio as a way to show that a good return can come from another type of dividend model besides the moat philosophy. All the new equities are well rated in their business area and are quite strong companies. The financials look great so the dividend payout is relatively safe. Also many of the new equities must pay out most of their earnings to keep their tax status. Slow and steady climb with this portfolio. This past week many of the stocks in the portfolio paid the quarterly dividend. Total return is now over 8% with the portfolio portion at almost 7%. This is great! This portfolio is showing my primary philosophy with stocks – buy great companies on sale and then let them ride.
Here is how Portfolio #2 shakes out:
Ticker Name Buy Current Div. Pay
Price Price Date Shares
KO Coke 36.89 39.05 10/01/2013 137.800
AGD Alpine Global Dynamic 5.76 4.64 08/29/2013 1,001.005
AOD Alpine Total Dynamic 4.37 4.02 08/29/2013 1,283.110
MO Altria 34.26 34.29 10/10/2013 152.562
INTC Intel 22.87 21.92 09/01/2013 242.196
HIX Western Asset Hi Inc II 10.53 8.84 08/22/2013 531.753
MCD McDonald’s 91.74 95.03 09/15/2013 55.964
MSFT Microsoft 28.55 31.80 09/13/2013 184.025
JNJ Johnson and Johnson 68.03 89.37 09/12/2013 72.098
PG Proctor and Gamble 68.72 79.90 11/15/2013 73.638
Buy Price Portfolio Value = $51,996.01
Current Price Portfolio Value = $53,922.16
Gain/(Loss) So Far = $1,926.15
Dividends Received So Far = $1,080.96
Dividend ROI = 2.08%
Stock Return = 1.63%
Total Return = 3.70%
Here is the watch list. Our three keys make getting on the list and then getting into the portfolio rather difficult. Here are the three keys: (1) a moat business model, (2) dividend of at least 3%, (3) solid fundamental analysis numbers.
Ticker Recent Date Div Target
Name Price Yield Price
COP ConocoPhillips 67.38 4.53% 58.00
BAC Bank of America 14.42 0.35% 11.00
BRKB Berkshire Hath B 115.24 No Div Pd 100.00
FUN Cedar Fair 43.55 4.85% Up to $45
VOC VOC Energy Trust 15.10 10.94% Up to $14.75
ConocoPhillips – This stock has great potential as the move significantly higher as the recent earnings was good and it has beat the street consistently.
Bank of America –This stock is keeping up a pattern of growing revenues and earnings after nearly collapsing in the banking crisis. This is a stock that I wish I had gotten into at this time last year at around $4.00
Berkshire Hathaway B Class – This is the way more affordable way to get into Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett than the $150K+ regular Class A shares. Over any period of time 2years or greater an investment in Berkshire has made money. This past year (2012) the S&P beat Berkshire, only the 5th time that has happened in the history of Berkshire – over 40 years. So this is one that is purely price appreciation. DISCLOSURE – I own this in my personal stock portfolio –one of the few stocks I do own.
Cedar Fair- This stock has Cedar Point as well as several regional amusement parks. It has been doing really well this year. I wish I had gotten into this one at the beginning of the year when I first came across it.
VOC Energy Trust – This is an MLP that is called a statutory trust. This means that is will only be around for a finite time before it must terminate. If there is still income coming in when the termination date happens there most likely will be another statutory trust formed to take advantage of that or the company will turn itself into a conventional MLP. This company holds oil and gas interests in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. It hit a dry well earlier this year which is the reason of the income drop so far this year. Again this company is generating lots of cash and will still turn out dividends at a nice rate. With the WTI (West Texas Intermediate)oil price now approaching the Brent price (VOC largely gets paid the WTI price for its oil) and it looks like it will be doing that for some time to come the cash stream looks good for this company. Getting in at a ceiling of $14.75 would be a great thing for good income for years to come.
QUESTIONS
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