KDK Fund Activity for Week Ending 1/11/14 (UUP, more)

UUP Option Trade

UUP ended the week at $21.67. The Jan 24 $21.50 call option bid price is now $0.18. That is a drop of $0.08 from last week. The option trade will continue as there is still a probability that the price of the ETF will rise due to upcoming economic reports being released in the next two weeks.

KDK Stock Fund

The plan is to make a purchase next week. The Fund will be purchasing shares of the Realty ETF Realty Income Corp.. The symbol for this ETF is O. Currently, the price of O is $38.50. Reasons for the trade include a monthly dividend and decent current valuation.

Other stocks on the future purchase list include Starbucks, Verizon, Ford, and Costco. KDK is always looking investment ideas. KDK Fund can be reached at kdkfund@gmail.com.

**All posts on this blog are information and opinions only. They are not to be considered recommendations to buy or sell any security. Please do your due diligence first before trading and investing.**  

KDK Fund Week Ending Jan 3 (UUP Call Trade, Upcoming Purchases and more)

Hey everyone

The current UUP $21.50 January 24th call option trade will continue.. The bid price of the options is currently $0.26. The target price of the option is still $0.75. UUP moved up during the week to $21.74.

Preparations for upcoming stock and ETF purchases continue. The first purchase should be coming in the next week or so.

**All posts on this blog are information and opinions only. They are not to be considered recommendations to buy or sell any security. Please do your due diligence first before trading and investing.**

KDK Fund Dec 28 Weekly Report (UUP, Year End)

KDK Fund had a quiet week. The UUP Jan 4th week (ending Jan 24) $21.50 call is still owned. UUP is currently trading around $21.50.  KDK will keep the trade on looking at the following events:

- employment numbers
- Yen actions
- Euro actions
- Fed Reserve actions

With 2013 done, KDK Fund is eagerly awaiting 2014. Lessons were learned in 2013. There were trades that made money but did not have great set ups and there were trades that lost money but had good set ups and exits. The lessons learned during 2013 will no doubt improve the skill and results of 2014.

May everyone have a healthy and successful investing and trading 2014.

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**All posts on this blog are information and opinions only. They are not to be considered recommendations to buy or sell any security. Please do your due diligence first before trading and investing.**

KDK Fund Dec 21 Weekly Report (IAU, UUP, REIT, and more)

KDK Fund had the busiest week in its existence so far. It was a whopping 2 trades :). KDK Fund sold its December IAU $12.00 Put. You can read about it here. It also bought a Jan 4th week UUP $21.50 call option.  You can read about the specifics including why the trade was made here.

KDK Fund also found a Real Estate REIT named Realty Corp. that it will purchase shares of in 2014. The dividend is currently at 5% and is given on a monthly basis.

**All posts on this blog are information and opinions only. They are not to be considered recommendations to buy or sell any security. Please do your due diligence first before trading and investing.**

New Trade in UUP Jan $21.50 Call Option

A new options trade has been made for KDK Fund. The January week 4 UUP $21.50 call option has been purchased for $0.25. UUP is currently trading at $21.67. The goal for the trade is $0.75. The trade will end on Friday, January 24th. Reasons for the purchase are as follows:

- Recent Federal Reserve decision to taper QE

- Increased GDP points to further strength in economy and further tapering of QE

- Increased GDP of previous quarter points to possible upward revisions of current quarter.

- Possible double bottom forming a W formation (there are 3 W formations marked previously in the chart).

- Japan and Europe still in the middle of their own QE programs

- US Government passing actual budget that provides more stability to market and economy

- Cost of trade showed only $0.08 of time value when the trade was made.


 **All posts on this blog are information and opinions only. They are not to be considered recommendations to buy or sell any security. Please do your due diligence first before trading and investing.**