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What Will They Say About You in 2225? Inheritance and Legacy in the Age of AI
In his will, my sixth great grandfather references “a silver cann with my name engraved thereon”—a deliberate legacy. But so were the names of the people he legally claimed as property. Two centuries later, I’m asking my AI assistant: what traces I am leaving—and how might they be viewed through a future lens?
Patricia Saylor
May 198 min read


Options Risk Management for Beginners
How to Really Trade Options Safely: Watch on YouTube If you're learning to trade options, you've probably heard a lot of hype—but not...
Patricia Saylor
Mar 303 min read


Weekly QQQ Options Trading Update; Selling Cash Secured Puts and Covered Calls on Schwab ThinkorSwim, Rolling Options Contracts, Nov. 1, 2024
Since May 2024, I’ve been documenting my weekly trades on QQQ, sharing a step-by-step look into my options strategy and the decisions I...
Patricia Saylor
Nov 4, 20243 min read


How to Lose Money Trading Options (and How I Profit): My Strategy for Consistent Income
If you're buying options, you're essentially placing a bet on the movement of a stock or ETF. If your prediction is right, you can make a...
Patricia Saylor
Sep 9, 20246 min read


Why is Option Trading So Confusing? 2 contracts, 4 ways to trade them, 8 possible outcomes
Have you ever felt like options trading was a puzzle you just couldn't crack? I know the feeling all too well. So once I figured out how...
Patricia Saylor
Oct 26, 20236 min read


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...
Patricia Saylor
May 24, 20235 min read


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...
Patricia Saylor
Apr 16, 20239 min read


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...
Patricia Saylor
Jan 11, 20235 min read


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). ...
Patricia Saylor
Dec 5, 20228 min read


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...
Patricia Saylor
Nov 1, 20224 min read


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,...
Patricia Saylor
Jan 29, 20223 min read


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...
Patricia Saylor
Jan 3, 20222 min read


What to do When Stock Price Drops; My WIX Stock
Introduction (January 2024) From late 2021 until January 2024, the share price of WIX dropped from the mid $200s to the low $60s, then...
Patricia Saylor
Jan 2, 202215 min read


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...
Patricia Saylor
Dec 19, 20214 min read


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...
Patricia Saylor
Dec 5, 20212 min read


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...
Patricia Saylor
Nov 28, 20212 min read


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...
Patricia Saylor
Oct 4, 20203 min read
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