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Market FIRE Review, Outlook, and Commentary: July 2023 – New Bull Market Carries On, Amid Generative AI Hype, Lessening Inflation, and Apparent Avoidance of Recession
Since the last Market FIRE Review, Outlook, and Commentary from March 2023, the economy and stock market have behaved largely as this site has predicted, with inflation continuing to decrease (albeit to levels still well above the Fed’s 2% target) and recession concerns continuing to abate. If anything, despite the overall downcast tone of forecasters…
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Taking Stock: Annual Recordkeeping on Portfolio Performance to Gauge Market FIRE Investing Objectives
The New Year is a time to review one’s annual investment portfolio performance. This piece discusses recordkeeping and reflections geared toward stock market investors using their portfolios to win financial independence.
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Market FIRE Review, Outlook, and Commentary: January 2023
Market FIRE Review, Outlook, and Commentary for Jan. 2023 – First half-year bull-run may be ahead, as inflation lessens and immediate severe recession appears to be averted.
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Covered Call Option Case Study: Arch Resources (ARCH) from 11/2021 to 11/2022
Case study illustrates author’s experience trading covered call, long call, and short put options on Arch Resources to facilitate financial independence during general upward trending bull market for coal and energy sectors but with overall Bear Market for general stocks. Case study shows timing and steps needed to preserve capital appreciation for in-the-money options through…
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General Market FIRE Approach to Stock Investing
Foundational article for StockMarket-FIRE.com discusses author’s approach to using long-term stock investing to facilitate financial independence. This approach optimizes stock holdings for use in writing covered call options to provide income without generally needing to sell underlying stock positions, except as part of regular portfolio rebalancing.
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Welcome to StockMarket-FIRE.com
Stock Market FIRE, as I developed it, thus consists of two equally important and complementary investing concepts: (1) buy, hold, and periodically adjust holdings in quality stocks, in order to generate long-term capital gains, and (2) leverage these long-term stock positions by selling covered call options against them, in order to generate consistent shorter-term income…
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