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Interest Rates and our Stock Market Investments

September 5th, 2009 · 16 Comments

A few weeks ago, I wrote an article pertaining to The Yield Curve which describes a graph of the interest rates of short, intermediate and long term treasury debt securities. This sparked dozens of questions and comments from our readers on this subject so I thought I’d follow-up with some basic economic information on the impact that [...]

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Tags: Conference Board · Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Method · economic news · inflation

Using Leading Economic Indicators in our Covered Call Decisions

July 18th, 2009 · 28 Comments

Here’s my take on the economy and how it influences our covered call decisions: In a healthy economy, stocks are more likely to appreciate in value and we can then take a more aggressive posture with our investments. This means selling more O-T-M strikes and generating even higher investment returns. If we are experiencing economic woes [...]

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Tags: Conference Board · Economic Indicators · Economy · Leading Economic Indicators