Using the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Covered Calls to Preserve Long Term Capital Gains

One of the tools I regularly use to preserve gains and especially long-term capital gains is writing covered calls on positions that I think can do down in the near term. Technical analysis is a great tool to predict short-term price movements.  Take the example of Crown Castle Internationa. Crown Castle is a real estate investment trust and provider of shared communications infrastructure in the United States. Its network includes over 40,000 cell towers and nearly 80,000 route miles of fiber supporting small cells and fiber solutions. Wikipedia CCI has got most of the ingredients we want for a low-risk equity … Read more

Using the Relative Strength Index (RSI)

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) was first developed by renowned technical analyst J. Welles Wilder. It is not to be confused with relative strength, which compares a stock’s price performance to that of an overall market average, such as the S&P 500. Instead, the RSI analyzes the recent performance of a security in relation to its own price history. RSI is a valuable tool to determine overbought/oversold levels. There are five major principles of RSI analysis: 1)  When RSI goes above 70 or below 30, it indicates that a stock is overbought or oversold and vulnerable to a trend reversal. … Read more

If you knew your stock was going down tomorrow would you sell it today?

Everyday before the market opens, I put a plus sign, minus sign or zero sign in front of every stock symbol I own.  The plus sign signifies that I think the stock goes up today, the minus is down, and the zero sign is I don’t have a clue.  I keep these sheets for several days comparing my predictions to the actual results.  The cost of transactions is so miniscule that if I have a high confidence level that a stock is going down, I have to ask myself can I own this stock cheaper tomorrow.  If so, why do … Read more