Howdy! After the success of last week’s discussion thread, I figured we should keep going. Feel free to comment below with anything and everything money related that is better suited to a conversation or a quick question and answer than a full post. Some ideas include:
- Journaling about an ongoing job search
- Asking for ideas about how to manage an emergency fund
- Logging recent stock trades
- Talking about the impact of inflation on your budget
- Your plans for maximizing the rewards on a credit card
Again, those are just suggestions, if there’s really anything you’d like to talk about related to finance in your life, feel free to put it here.
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Not too much going on for me real life money wise, which is how I like it, although I forgot to mention an account in my last post. I have a cash management account that holds what I hope to one day be enough money for the down payment on a house. Right now it is just set up with most of the balance to automatically roll into a short term brokered CD, and with some money set aside such that, given how banking has been lately, if my main bank had trouble right when all my bills came due I wouldn’t be completely screwed.
For my little real money fun investing account, the only notable development is that MHO is getting pretty close to reaching 100% gain. If it does, I intend to sell half the position to get out what I put in, reallocate that, and let the remainder ride to see what happens.
For my paper trading account, I took some of my own advice from last week and closed the position I had on F. I have also changed my approach to the volatility trades that I had been doing with the SPX iron condors. Volatility is low right now, so long term I would expect there to be more volatility at some point in the future. With that in mind, I decided to try a strangle strategy using LEAP options. This should minimize my exposure to theta while allowing me to profit whether the future volatility is upwards or downwards. For position sizing reasons, this is no longer held on SPX, but instead SPY.
Is crypto talk allowed? I hold 2 litecoin and the price is going up right now due to the halving, rewards for mining is going from 12 to 6.
Also rebalanced my 401k a bit.
To maximize the reward from my credit card i dont have a credit card. Best solution. I am rewarded constantly by seeing others pay 20+% while i dont do that.
What 20% do you mean? The interest rate?
If you treat a credit card like a charge card and pay it in full every month there’s zero cost to you. You don’t even pay interest on the time between the purchase and the payment as long as you pay everything off on the first statement it appears.
Having a credit card is good for your credit and can save you money in the form of cash back. As long as you can keep disciplined about only spending money you already have and paying in full every statement, it’s all upside.
