With the rate of returns, you just need a black swan 10% scenario event to cancel out all the hard earns premium you collected throughout the way.

So its not excactly a 100% money guaranteed method like what ak or guru professed.

but his loss is capped doing covered calls... and afaik he is also doing secured puts to buy his stocks... and his stocks has gone up in value when called away... he has made money along the way and so not as bad as ppl think it is

picking a strike with high IV and 60% OTM already gave one a statistical edge... toss a coin 10 time it can be 100% heads... but 10000 times it will be 50%... selling options you need to be statistically relevant... just like the casino, some joker will walk away with the jackpot... but overall they still win...

anyways... i dont follow ak or anyone at all... dunno what they have professed...

some charting will help...

and some of your counters may not be optimal for underwriting... but i get it... its what you want to own, options is just extra...

bro Ramjade... not sure if you remember... hehehe



and since Apr 11...



there's a lesson for you somewhere... bro Tos2 too...

anyways, cheers...

we're all in for the money...

FA is but only one aspect of evaluating buy sell or hold...

i pick walmart without any FA or TA... only market and situational awareness... 

before all the AI play exploded... i posted about it too i think in the ibkr tered... anyways...

As of now not doing too well, as Trump spooked the market and threaten fed independence. The name calling and temper tantrum not helping as well.

Still got two weeks left, hope mag 7 report cards will create a sentiment reversal, if not my will need fresh capital injection if i want to continue.

I really wonder how does algo take into consideration of trump and its impact, theres not much past data to do the learning on. Almost like flying blind.

And don't always think US stock is invincible. Everyday S&P 500 S&P 500. Finally the ugly side of USA is shown - all because of one clown.

Buy and hold i have another account for that and have slowly diversified out to be under weight US and overweight China. Canada and EU could be good as well if valuations drop further.

As for short term trading and volatility trades, US is still the best for now. The most liquid, reactive, active with a variety of products.

Hi anyone do provide service stock signal?

Market close green again. Every dip is getting bought. I'm going all in. Not gonna miss the boat again.

Hi just wondering why VOO instead of the Total World ETF with QQQM? I am asking because I have been buying QQQM and CSPX too. But am contemplating to stop SP 500 and buy Total world instead because of the higher overlap of companies btwn SP500 and Nasdaq. And just in case US doesn’t do well anymore
Would like to know your thoughts.

I thinking,... not only will US stock dividends be hit, capital gains and options premiums earned will be hit too soon. Basically,... anything that has to do with US instruments will be hit with taxes and deductions so long as the beneficiary parties are not US Persons..

And US REITs listed in the SGX too,... they may not have the REIT privileges soon. There will be withholding taxes imposed on the dividend payouts from Prime and Utd Hampshire REIT,...

Hope it doesn't affect irish domiciled etfs.

Do u think it will affect unit trust returns too?

Sometime,... emm,... how we interpret this is not important,... it's how our brokerages and fund houses interpret that is important. The brokerages and the fund houses are the ones doing the withholding.

You're wrong.

I know brokers worldwide who still collect withholding taxes when there are instructions that such proceeds do not require taxes withheld. Then when we ask them why are they withholding when there are these instructions and these instructions, they just say they will need to withhold,... and that they will remit (back) to the IRS. God knows if they do,...

We have to take it up with the IRS after that.

If they have followed proper instructions earlier, we wouldn't have needed to do more work with the IRS.

Brokers DON'T JUST HELP THE IRS, THEY DO MORE THAN WHAT THE IRS TELLS THEM TO 'PROTECT THEIR ASSES'.

So is Singapore. But why are there talks now abt taxing unitholders who invest into US REITs listed in Singapore ?

I'm sorry bro,.. I don't know,... but I do know know is this US Administration is really keen on taxing as many of the outside world as possible. If it doesn't happen today, it might happen tmrw or the next year. There is so much uncertainty out there.

I'm sure many high net worth individuals would have moved some of their assets out of US-linked investments. Many funds would have taken similar steps too.

Tq for your replies,...

There you go,... brokerages are covering their asses, right ? So they just tax first-lar,... therefore you were wrong when you said "Won't be broker."

I can tell you,... the broker will be the first line to withhold tax,... then subsequently, we will need to go back to The IRS to claim back what the broker took. We need to raise IRS File Numbers, etc,...

For IBKR, will they do withholding taxes onto instruments like PFLT, and if they do, what documentation is needed to get the exemption ? Notes as below for the latest PFLT dividend payout,.....

"PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd. (NYSE: PFLT) has announced its monthly distribution of $0.1025 per share for June 2025, payable on July 1, 2025, to stockholders of record as of June 16, 2025. The distribution will be sourced from taxable net investment income. PFLT operates as a business development company focusing on U.S. middle-market private companies, primarily investing in floating rate senior secured loans. The company is managed by PennantPark Investment Advisers, LLC, a middle market credit platform managing approximately $10 billion of investable capital. The distribution may be exempt from U.S. withholding tax for non-U.S. stockholders when proper documentation is provided, as the company generates qualified interest income and short-term capital gains."

To your second reply : REITs' mandates are to pay out 90% of their net income as dividend to unitholders. Why not fair if these instruments are not taxed against their net income ? Of all people, you shld know this. You invested in REITs too,... or,....... have I misunderstood your question ?

To your third reply,... I invest into the US, SG and into other countries too,... directly into their jurisdictions, ie having accts in a brokerage inside the ctry. I think factors such as 'easy to make money' and liquidity are available everywhere. Just depends on whether you know what to do or not. You are good in Options against US equities, hence, your biasness into the US mkts.

Nothing wrong with that tho',... just like I'm biased with the SG mkts because of its taxfree status, political stability and stable currency. OPenness into the world,.. easy to open accounts, etc,... but emm,... not so easy anymore today.

One more advantage,... but that's just me,... a convenience in attending functions in the companies which we invest into,...

Here's a stats showing US still being the largest market in the world, as well as having the highest liquidity / transactions goin' around...

Everybody knows US REITs dividends are not qualified. No need to talk abt this. BDCs and MLPs are NOT weird, they are good dividend-paying entities that invest in companies in The USA,... these are instruments that we don't see in many parts of the world.

I think I'm earning more than Adam Khoo in terms of investment income. NO need to look at him.

As a Malaysian, how do u register as MooMoo SG?

Wta with the rising anti west that’s happening here, is it still safe to be investing in US stocks?

US is always safe. The world is still parking their money in US.