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The Small Investor
http://smallivy.wordpress.com/
A blog providing investing techniques and wealth building strategies. This site is designed in particular for those in the middle class who would like to become wealthy. Also provides some analysis of economic theories and policy as it relates to wealth creation and quality of life.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1025 )
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The Dark Side of Covered Call Writing
Many people are learning a hard lesson about writing options this month. As the markets crash, they’re seeing losses in their accounts from option writing. Read more
Posted on 13 April 2025 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Budgets Aren’t Just for Saving Money
Here are 10 simple to-adopt habits that help low-income households save money without sacrificing fun. Read more
Posted on 06 April 2025 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Why the Odds Are Stacked Against Options Buyers
If you’ve spent anytime at all on X in the FinTwit world, you’ve probably found some people telling about all of the abundant money they’ve made buying options... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2025 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
The Key to Achieving Financial Freedom: Maximizing Your Free Cash Flow
Here are 10 simple to-adopt habits that help low-income households save money without sacrificing fun. Read more
Posted on 16 March 2025 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
How The Spread Kills Option Traders
There are several accounts on X talking about how much money you can make on options trading, where you move in and out of options quickly, taking advantage of... Read more
Posted on 02 March 2025 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Four Steps to Financial Stability
Here are 10 simple to-adopt habits that help low-income households save money without sacrificing fun. Read more
Posted on 23 February 2025 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
How Do You Write Covered Calls?
Today we’re going to dive into the world of options and discuss one particular strategy called “covered call writing.” This is a fairly safe way that you can... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2025 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
10 Everyday Habits That Help Low-Income Households Save Money
Here are 10 simple to-adopt habits that help low-income households save money without sacrificing fun. Read more
Posted on 26 January 2025 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Using PE to Predict Future Stock Prices
If you invest the way recommended by The Small Investor – buying into great companies and holding them indefinitely – you can use price earnings ratio, or... Read more
Posted on 18 January 2025 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Why Don’t We Just Take Elon Musk’s Wealth?
Is Stealing from the Rich the Answer? On X I’m seeing a lot of posts saying that the wealth of the wealthy should just be seized. Read more
Posted on 22 December 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Your Stock’s Way Up, but You Don’t Want to Sell. How to Delay Capital Gains.
One of the main advantages in long-term investing is the ability to delay capital gains taxes. This allows the money you would have been paying in taxes to... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Use Time to Reduce Your Risk When Investing
If buying a stock were a sure thing, you wouldn’t see the 50-100% returns that are common from individual stock investments. Taking risks is what allows you to... Read more
Posted on 24 November 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
A Simple Way to Invest in Your IRA
Before the 401k, there was the IRA. The simple investment account that anyone who had earned income could use to save for retirement. Read more
Posted on 26 October 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Boy Scouts, I Love You, But…
I was never a Boy Scout growing up, although I have done extensive camping and outdoor activities. But my son went through the program and earned how Eagle Scou... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Bob’s Backhoes
A New Forestry Road by Donald H Bain is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0 Once upon a time there was a man named Steve. Steve would spend all day on his hands and... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Three Habits to Grow Your Net Worth
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com People try to make growing wealthy sound complicated. They talk about complex business deals and special connections. Read more
Posted on 04 August 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Pay Yourself First and Grow Your Wealth
Photo by Eno Eltora on Pexels.com Personal finance advice can get really complicated. Listen to many podcasts or read a few blogs and you’ll hear about dollar... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
How to Find A Broker and Start Investing
Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels.com If you’re interested in investing, you’ve probably spent some time looking at different websites and blogs on how to... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
Accounts You Need When Adulting
Photo by fauxels on Pexels.com So, you’ve turned 18, gotten an apartment, and are ready to start life on your own. You feel great! Or maybe you feel scared.... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE -
A Financial Checklist for Your New Job
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com Congratulations on getting your first job. I know that college was a lot of late hours, then the whole job search was... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2024 BUSINESS, FINANCE