• MonkeyGee : I agree,  there will be no growth with this president.  we will have to wait for 2024.

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• doctorpot1 OP MonkeyGee : oil price hiked in October as well, so not optimistic about Oct CPI

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• GoLeopard : thanks for sharing.
  I learnt something from your post about BBBY. Be Patience.
  In the case of selling Put, market fluctuations always drop near to the strike price, and one has to buy over the shares. I have no intention to keep the shares. So sometimes i choose "Buy to Close" the positions, just get rid of it and incur losses.
  Next day, the market reverses. and there you go, pulling my hair again.
  Paper loss is not the worst, but if you can roll the options and wait for months, and get back your money with some profits, why not?!
  Always remind myself, roll if possible before close.

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• doctorpot1 OP GoLeopard : glad this had been of help to you
  yea rolling option is an interesting concept as we always earn the time value... the drawback is opportunity cost and taking on continued risk of the share price dropping or company going bankrupt.
  but if there are no better alternatives, then rolling is not that bad.

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• GoLeopard doctorpot1 OP : yes, options preferably traded on good stock with sound fundamentals. For speculative stock, have to exit fast and also protect with a spread. BBBY is one example.

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• Cui Nyonya Kueh : I read some news. Fed will up the interest till 2024 if I did not read wrongly.Fed unlikely to cut interest rates until 2024, Goldman Sachs says

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• doctorpot1 OP Cui Nyonya Kueh : The fed do release what they expect their interst rate to look like in their report, so from the dot plot, as of now, we can see the expectation as of Sept 2022 is that they expect interest rate to start dropping from 2024 onwards. This may change, as it is just expectation.
  so if they keep increasing, then I will buy more longer term bond so as to lock in the higher interest rate for many years again hehehe
  https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/files/fomcprojtabl20220921.pdf

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• Captain Woon : Astrea VI is most attractive now with 0.5% bonus secured as well

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• doctorpot1 OP Captain Woon : based on the current price, it is giving a 4% yield too

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• Captain Woon doctorpot1 OP : More than that in my calculation. Nearly 5% now excluding the 0.5% bonus, calculate till the end of the first redemption period.

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