The weakening of the US dollar is good news for the stock market and for most US companies that receive a large portion of their income from overseas.
Recently, everything has been working against the US dollar.
Bond yields have fallen as inflation rates have dropped, and the fixed-income market expects the Federal Reserve to stop raising interest rates as early as this summer due to the slowing economy.
The rebound in the stock market also indicates that i...

In a blink of an eye, January is over, and we are deep into February already. I wanted to do a monthly review of how I did with my options, and of course reflect and see how I can do better. This comes a lot later than I would have liked, but here it is.
As this is the first time I am doing this, I will structure this monthly review in the following way:
1. Last month's performance
2. Reflections and learnings
3. Thoughts for the next month
Perform...

This year I have decided to try using options to generate a new source of income. I have been learning as much as I can about options trading and I have also tried my hand in some simple trades. I will try to summarise what I have learned so far, and in the next post, will give a summary of some of the trades I have attempted and what I have learned.
I will not go into the details of what is options trading here, there are many online resources that are avail...

oh dear!