Another consistent month for dividend paying stocks. A few of my oil stocks have cut their dividends down but it is as expected and did not really make a dent.
Options activity really picked up. I am at my highest Premium month ever with over $3,300. This consisted of playing Apple puts. I sold weekly puts and they all expired worthless as Apple stock rose upwards. Just wished I played it even more lol, but nobody has a crystal ball and I should be happy for the premiums I received.
Interest paid out was a bit higher but it consisted of lat month when I borrowed 100k on margin to make an Apple stock flip for a couple thousand in profit.
Adsense activity is up a but from 2 good days primarily and pageviews are an improvement from last month.
December 2014 Dividends Paid
Monthly payers
86.63 - HR.UN HR Reit
232.65 - AX.UN Artis Reit
177.33 - D.UN Dream Office Reit
133.34 - DRG.UN Dream Global Reit
94.36 - REI.UN RioCan Reit
123.75 - RMM.UN Retrocom Reit
105.00 - BTB.UN BTB Reit
80.50 - CPG Crescent Point Energy
18.33 - SJR.B Shaw Communications
25.70 - ENF Enbridge Income fund
18.17 - CJR.B Corus Entertainment
20.00 - BTE Baytex Energy
Quarterly Payers
80.00 - T Telus Corp
61.76 - RCI.B Rogers Communications
30.00 - HSE Husky Energy
22.50 - CNQ Canadian Nat Resources
135.85 - BCE BCE Inc.
37.22 - AGU Agrium
113.30 - CIBC CIBC Bank
66.00 - BNS Bank of Nova Scotia
26.40 - TRP TransCanada
41.16 - KMB Kimberly Clark
41.27 - PEP Pepsico
40.25 - GE General Electric
32.27 - BAX Baxter
40.80 - WMT Walmart
36.90 - TOT Total SA ADR
63.81 - PM Philip Morris
38.56 - DOW Dow Chemical
122.60 - GSK GlaxoSmithKline
$2,146.41 - TOTAL
Total options premiums in December
$3305.92
Options Notes -
- Playing Apple with selling puts aggressively before earnings, was easy money this month.
Total interest paid for margin for January
$3517.21
Adsense for my blog in December $19.50
- 12,321 : Pageviews for January
- 20 : Number of ad clicks
2015 Running Dividend Total $2,146.41
2015 Running Interest Total $517.21
2015 Running Option premiums total $3,305.92
2015 Running Adsense total $19.50
2015 Breakdown Dividends Options Interest Adsense
- January $2,146.41 $3,305.92 $517.21 $19.50
2014 Breakdown Dividends Options Interest Adsense
- December $2,268.05 $657.49 $396.00 $16.17
- November $2,182.56 $616.81 $501.82 $10.86
- October $2,499.87 $2,167.48 $538.20
- September $2,088.65 $1,518.76 $318.73
- August $1,482.38 $87.79
- July $1,239.74
- June $608.62
- May $531.13
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TOTALS 2014 $13,291.20 $4,960.54 $1,842.54 $27.03
Wow, your killing it AG. Hey I was wondering how you post to twitter ? Do you manually update it or is there something that can autopost for you ? Thanks
ReplyDeleteJust above your post there is a bar with social sites on it, Click on the twitter marked T and it will confirm your tweet. Thanks for the kind words!
DeleteAG,
ReplyDeleteYour snowball is a full blown AVALANCHE! Holy shit those are some insane numbers. Inspiring as always.
MDP
I am just trying to keep up to u buddy! Good day and Grind On week after week like u do!
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ReplyDeleteI recently put Ad Sense on my blog and have earned a whooping $2.62! Early retirement here we come!
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Lol I am not much better at under $20. I might just donate my adsense earnings eventually.
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ReplyDeleteThat is some serious cash coming in with dividends and option premiums. Congrats on both of those sources of income. Who do you use as a broker?
I use TD . They have good tools but their fees are quite high. I pay $10 a trade and often between $12-25 for option trades. Its adding up. I am looking to make the move to interactive brokers and try it out for a bit with a small 10k investment to test drive the platform. If its good I will transfer my whole account there. Interactive brokers have the lowest margin rates as well which is a huge plus on top of lower trading fees.
DeleteAG
ReplyDeleteThanks for keeping us motivated with your updates bud. That's an Awesome January.!!
Love it. Love it. Love it. I just love seeing other money makers. Law of attraction.
Thank you for sharing this awesome journey with us dividend growers.
Tyler.
Anytime buddy. Hope all goes well with your site. It is lookin good and about 5x better than mine already lol
DeleteAG,
ReplyDeleteYet another solid month in the books, great job! If I made these numbers, I'd be able to retire tomorrow. :)
Thank you for sharing.
Keep it up,
NMW
Thanks for droppin by buddy.
DeleteCrazy good :) Keep it the great work.
ReplyDeleteMark
will keep on keepin on!
DeleteRockin' right out of the gate AG! Playing AAPL has worked out pretty well for you so far given its regular fluctuations. Here's to seeing this level of production for the duration of this year!
ReplyDeleteApple is on a good upwrd trend so all my puts have been expiring worthless which I dont mind lol.
DeleteYou are killing it with those dividends and options. Way to go buddy. Keep up the great work
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Thanks for droppin by as always buddy
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ReplyDeleteWil do, Just trying to go in the right direction
DeleteWhile the dividends coming in are impressive the options premiums really got my mouth watering. Is it a wash because of the interest you had to pay? I still want to get into options whether covered call writing or writing puts to buy into positions I won't mind owning. Either way that was a stellar options month. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteInterest is relatively low. My interest in mainly from my Canadian account holding my reits. I really like playing the options and starting to get the swing of it. Great way to pump your income up. Worst case scenario I own a stock I like at a good price level.
DeleteJanuary is typically the slowest month of the year. 2k income is excellent. Looking forward to seeing later months.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea how this year will turn out. Hopefully higher!
DeleteGreat looking net worth update. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteNet worth comin in a few days. stay tuned
DeleteWhat do you think of AdSense so far? How many spots do you have? I'm thinking of implementing it myself.
ReplyDeleteadsense is alright. Hey I am not getting rich off of it at $20 a month lol. I got 3 spots and lucky if I get a click a day lol. If I was full time writer like dividend mantra and getting over 1k a month I would be pretty happy. But for now I will give an uodate here and there and hope for the best with my sub par writing skills. I swear my simple posts take forever to do. Heck I still look down at the keyboard when I type!
DeleteI'm always impressed with the ways you can generate more income every month. I'd love to get into the more aggressive income generating strategies like you, but it's hard with only a part-time intern job as a safety net. Keep grinding away, I'm definitely learning a lot from you!
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Please take your time to do your own research when it comes to income generating. I by no means label myself an expert. I dont mind trying new things even if I fail. I try to learn from my mistakes and others as well.
DeleteJust keep an open mind when it comes to investing.
January was a great month for premium sellers with the heightened volatility. I am hoping the volatility will remain elevated through out 2015 as fattens up those premiums. Got to love the Theta decay.
ReplyDeleteWhy sell weekly options vs standard monthly options? Do you think the Gamma risk is worth it? What kind of probability of expiring out of the money do you aim for when you are selling options?
I tend to stick to about 80% of my premium sales on index ETF's. It takes out a lot of binary event risk associated with individual equities.
Do you also sell calls against your equity positions?
Cheers!
When stocks seem lofty I will write an out of the money covered call on them with a time frame of 1-3 weeks.
DeleteWhen I anticipate a stock to still rise like apple I sell puts at a few dollars below the current asking price. Usually just weekly puts at that point. If I want to own the stock I will let myself get called at certain prices and then right away write weekly covered calls on them for a few dollars on top. If I am about to get called on my puts and dont want to own I will buy back the put and rewrite for the following week and a lower price point but somewhere where I still can make a few extra bucks.
The VIX index has been all over the map lately and when its high the juicy premiums come into place.Sometimes its just not worth the risk
When writing out of the money calls I aim for about a 5% pop. Sorry If i didnt answer all your questions.
Wow - the amount you are making is insane!
ReplyDeleteYou can always make more lol?
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