Jun 26, 2008 | Investment Basics
I was about to ask Linda to marry me. My knowledge of diamond rings was one level below my awareness of the cast of Sex in the City (a show I have never watched). How many of us take our hard-earned money into a mall jewelry store and purchase an engagement ring from...
May 17, 2008 | Investment Basics
This is the third and final article in this trilogy of writings regarding generating income via stock options to erase a negative cash flow situation. In part I, our strategy was developed. Capital preservation was of utmost importance since we needed to maintain our...
Apr 29, 2008 | Investment Basics
Make money so you don’t lose money. No, this is not a quote from Yogi Berra! It’s me, Alan, speaking and I make no apologies for this seemingly sophomoric statement. On April 12, 2008, I wrote an article wherein I described a negative cash flow property I...
Apr 12, 2008 | Investment Basics
The light bulb went on! I have a property in Florida that is negatively cash flowing. I also have a skill generating cash by selling stock options. This is a marriage made in heaven! When I started trading stock options, the cash was used to pay for my son’s...
Mar 9, 2008 | Investment Basics
You can’t open a financial newspaper or watch a financial program without hearing the latest buzz-words recession and stagflation. There has been much banter lately as to whether or not we are in a recession, approaching one or simply in an economic slowdown. I...
Jan 28, 2008 | Investment Basics
WOW! For the last six weeks I have written articles that I’ve had to put on the backburners for future publication. This is due to the inordinate amount of market volatility. That’s all I’ve been thinking of, so I assume that most of you have been...