The Reluctant Capitalist Podcasts: Recent Episodes

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Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made--win or lose.

Strategies are Naked Puts, Naked Calls, Spreads, Condors, and Diagonal Spreads.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

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This episode reviews the fund's 2020 returns

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Published on: July 11, 2020 at 11:00 PM

Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made--win or lose.

Strategies are Naked Puts, Naked Calls, Spreads, Condors, and Diagonal Spreads.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

This week's episode reviews option trades on  Align Technolities. (algn) and Qualcomm Inc. (qcom)

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Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made--win or lose.

Strategies are Naked Puts, Naked Calls, Spreads, Condors, and Diagonal Spreads.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

This week's episode reviews option trades on  Goldman Sachs (gs) and Align Technolities. (algn)

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Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made--win or lose.

Strategies are Naked Puts, Naked Calls, Spreads, Condors, and Diagonal Spreads.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

This week's episode reviews option trades on  Paychex Inc. (payx) and Goldman Sachs (gs)

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Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made--win or lose.

Strategies are Naked Puts, Naked Calls, Spreads, Condors, and Diagonal Spreads.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

This week's episode reviews option trades on FedEx (fdx) and Paychex Inc. (payx)

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Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made--win or lose.

Strategies are Naked Puts, Naked Calls, Spreads, Condors, and Diagonal Spreads.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

This week's episode reviews option trades on Accenture (acn) and FedEx (fdx).

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Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made--win or lose.

Strategies are Naked Puts, Naked Calls, Spreads, Condors, and Diagonal Spreads.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

This week's episode reviews option trades on Oracle (orcl) and Accenture (acn).

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Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made--win or lose.

Strategies are Naked Puts, Naked Calls, Spreads, Condors, and Diagonal Spreads.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

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Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made--win or lose.

Strategies are Naked Puts, Naked Calls, Spreads, Condors, and Diagonal Spreads.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

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Episodes review a stock option trade made, a preview of a stock option trade planned for the following week, some option definitions, and the profitability of trades made win or lose.

Note: This is not financial advice. These are trades made and planned--as the market changes, so may the plans. Options involve risk and are not suitable for all investors. Understand option strategies and all possible outcome of trades prior to executing trades.

Win or lose, you are responsible for your trading decisions.

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A stock's beta why it doesn't work.

When a hypothesis and its outcome differ, the hypothesis' validity should be questioned and a determination of why the observations didn't match the hypothesis...brings understanding.  

There is a plethora of papers stating that beta provides a poor indicator of a stock's risk, yet none we have found explain why; this podcast attempts to do so.