Ready to Invest? How I Got Control of My Personal Finances & Started Investing in the Stock Market
I wish I’d had the help I needed. Finding the right people can make all the difference. By Patricia Saylor I kept my house. In 2008, I...
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Patricia Saylor
- Apr 16
- 9 min
Boost Your Dividend Portfolio; Reinvesting Dividends, Selling Puts and Covered Calls, Capital Gains
Anyone with a basic understanding of investing can set up a dividend portfolio. It's a set it and forget it way to make money. But with...
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Patricia Saylor
- Jan 11
- 5 min
Calls and Puts, Buy or Sell, Rights and Obligations - Understand Option Contracts
Understand Option Trading Before You Get Started Incorporating options trades into your portfolio can be a great way to boost your...
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Patricia Saylor
- Dec 5, 2022
- 8 min
Financial Freedom & Building Generational Wealth; Learning How to Invest in the Stock Market
A Gift from Grandma When Alyssa was still a girl, her grandmother gifted her 10 shares of stock in the Coca Cola corporation (KO). ...
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Patricia Saylor
- Nov 1, 2022
- 4 min
A Stock Market Game for Students May Teach the Wrong Lessons; 5 Reasons Why (& Better Alternatives)
Many stock market games designed for students are an exercise in gambling, not Investing. My Son's Middle School Stock Market Game Taught...
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Patricia Saylor
- Jan 29, 2022
- 3 min
AT&T Stock | Trading T | Using Puts and Calls to Reduce my Cost Basis
Upcoming Trade I own 100 shares of T (AT&T stock) with an adjusted cost basis of $24.90/share. At the close of the market on Friday,...
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Patricia Saylor
- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
META ETF: Investing, Trading Options | (Update: New Ticker METV as of 1/31/2022)
META On December 28, 2021 I decided to start building a position in an ETF META (not to be confused with the company, Meta, formerly...
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Patricia Saylor
- Jan 2, 2022
- 11 min
What to do When Stock Price Drops; My WIX Stock
Introduction From late 2021 until late 2023, the share price of WIX dropped from the mid $200s to the low $60s, then recovered to the mid...
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Patricia Saylor
- Dec 19, 2021
- 4 min
Easy Options Trading; Sell Puts to Buy Stock at a Discount
If you already manage your own investment account and know how to buy and sell individual shares of stock, you can learn this way to pay...
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Patricia Saylor
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
Learn How to Invest in the Stock Market; The Montessori Way
I designed my stock market course the Montessori way. While there are no pink towers to build or colored beads to manipulate, I build a...
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Patricia Saylor
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
Teach your kids to invest, give the best gifts for teens and prevent them from squandering it!
My son was only angry with me for a little while! When I first learned to invest for myself, I created an account for my then-12-year-old...
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Patricia Saylor
- Oct 4, 2020
- 3 min
Supplement Your NC Teacher Retirement Pension | Why Public School Teachers are Great Investors
(Spoiler- It's mostly because we don't know what we are doing!) Most teachers never look at those deductions on their monthly checks, so...
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