1. I’m reducing my exposure to international funds, particular ones that are in Asia.
I think emerging markets are having issues, and the international indexes have done well for the past few years. Nothing lasts forever, so my I’m reducing my allocation from roughly 30% to about 15%… Part of that will be moved into one of them “Target 2030 Blend Funds”, part of that will be held in a 2.5% money market account for the time being until I figure out what to do.
2. I’m trying to reduce the number of stocks i still hold in my after tax trading account.
3. I am selling one property and going to be adding some cash to probably do a 1031 exchange to a slightly larger place in a better location that rents better. Maybe Carlsbad… Don’t know exactly yet.
In summary, I’m trying to reduce my level of risk as I get closer to early retirement I hope. we shall see
AMD was a simple being lucky like a broken clock twice a day….I’ll stay in to at least year 2020, since I already sold something to cover my initial costs + a little extra. So anything else extra at this point is pure profit….Contemplating selling all my 1/18/2019 $12 calls and adding more 1/17/2020 $15 calls. It’s roughly $1.50 price difference, but gets me one extra year to expiration, and at the current stock price, both contracts move almost $1 per share per $1 actual stock price increase…Doing so will allow me to pick up an additional 20 contracts without adding any more money to the pot, and extends the expiration by 1 year.
