A few weeks back I wrote about about buddy talking to me about his newly found investment strategy using a weekly paying ETF and selling covered calls against it. Given the illiquidity of the option market on $ULTY and the lack of implied volatility (those…
Thoughts before calculating: I think I am going to be up slightly this month. I was able to do another tranche of debt moving from consumer to my margin account. Calculating my Net Worth My Family’s Assets While I have several asset categories, I don’t…
Last month while I was away I wrote a post about reinvigorating my financial goal which is simply put to create enough tangible income so that principal doesn’t have to be invaded during retirement. I have said about a thousand times that my favorite asset…
Last month I wrote about moving one of my larger consumer debt to my margin account. I just did the second huge chunk. I am going to mark these off of my spreadsheet as completed. Even though the debt technically exists, it is unlikely to…
I’m a few days late with this post, but I did calculate it on the 1st or 2nd, so the numbers are accurate. Thoughts before calculating: I can’t do this part of it since I know the calcs! But I figured it would be a…
After some soul searching, and too many months of procrastination, I started to make some real moves on the debt. Last month I wrote, Before my next update I am going to take some drastic measures to attack this debt. It felt disengenious at best…
For the first time in a long time, I have been inspired to write about topics that are more than just calculating my debt and net worth. I recently wrote a post that is going to be constantly updated regarding my financial “non-negotiables” and when…
Thoughts before Updating: It is going to be a positive but not killer month. The market keeps ticking higher and a large part of my net worth is held in my 401(k). Calculating my Net Worth My Family’s Assets While I have several asset categories,…
It has been a while since I have sat through a too long meeting and was inspired just to write about personal finances…but it happened the other day. Someone brought up a show that will likely fall into oblivion at some point called, “The Bear.”…
In January of this year I decided to really focus in on the elimination of debt. Since all debt is not equal I created tiers for my debt: I am so frustrated right now! In March I was at 82% of my January Debt Amount, and…