Some lessons in charting
Mid-winter portfolio update
Andy Sirski’s been studying bull put spreads. In this column, he tells you how it’s working for his portfolio. And, a tribute to John Clark
A lot has happened since my last column. For one thing, the Dow Jones Index came up to 14,009, within a hair of the old high set in October 2007. A lot of good stocks have made a lot of money these past 63 months. Some would call this a bull market, but most bulls […] Read morePut spreads can make us money
Andy is moving from covered calls to put spreads. Find out how he does it, and what it’s doing for him
As you know, I like to sell covered calls on some of the stocks I own. This is a rare strategy that is not understood by many, so they call it risky. I’ve had a lot of practice selling calls these past six or seven years so I figured it was time to expand my […] Read moreThorium technology might replace uranium
China’s is researching thorium, as a replacement for uranium in reactors. Andy Sirski explains what this could mean, gives us an update on his portfolio
In this column I will touch on research China is doing on the use of thorium instead of uranium to run reactors to produce electricity. The U.S. did a lot of work on thorium back in the 1950s but the administration wanted to develop nuclear bombs so it chose to focus on uranium instead. Now […] Read moreThings I wish I’d learned 30 years ago
Andy Sirski shares seven investing tips and strategies he wishes he’d known when he started investing
As we start a new investment year, I sometimes think how our life might be if we had had more financial skills 30 to 40 years ago. Not that I’m bitter. My wife and I and our family are richly blessed and I’ve learned many financial skills over the years. Still it would have been nice to […] Read more