2022 February Options

I didn't get much premium in the month of February  and i was only trading options for AMC.

I was able to collect  $92 in options income.

Date	Call	Option Premium	Notes
2/8/2022	AMC 2/25/2022 Call $35	12
28-Feb	AMC 3/4/2022 Call $26	20
28-Feb	AMC 3/11/2022 Call $28	31
16-Feb	AMC 2/25/2022 Call $28	29	roll

Compared to last year this quite a decrease

	2021	2022
January	64	97
February	485	92

Still its better than 2020 when i didn't do any options. I have been all options income back to buying my dividend Stocks.

2022 February Dividend Report

 Month 2 of 2022 is in books and This month I received close to $ 651 in dividends from my stock holdings

Now this a new record for me  for February, This happened  due to my investments in last year in VZ,BMY.

Compared to previous year SBUX moved its payment this year to Feb. vs March Last year.

	2021	2022	difference
T	53.56	56.57	3.01
AAPL	82.52	88.97	6.45
PG	20.86	25.11	4.25
O	6.24	6.77	0.53
MA	0.8	1.72	0.92
T	53.51	58.59	5.08
VZ	17.13	46.72	29.59
CVS	25.2	28.42	3.22
WRK	7.08	9.01	1.93
BMY	0	48.34	48.34
GD	23.1	30	6.9
AMP	15.71	17.28	1.57
RY	8.79	11.79	3
CAT	52.77	57.72	4.95
HRL	11.55	15.6	4.05
ABBV	67.6	85.65	18.05
NNN	3.63	3.83	0.2
AGNC	6.17	6.59	0.42
DE	19.43	26.99	7.56
SBUX	13.18	14.94	1.76
SBUX	9.7	11.18	1.48
	488.83	651.79	162.96

February Dividends  have been increasing for the last few years.

This year the increase is like 33% compared to last year.

2022 Goal: This year the Goal was to receive 14K in dividends and so far I received $1075 and its like 7% of the goal. Current projections for my account show 13.7K without any new investments or Hikes.

 

2022 January Options

 

With volatility  reduced greatly   i see price for my calls and puts are down. Still i was able to get $97 in options income this month

This also resulted in assignment of puts

Date	Call	Option Premium	Notes
1/4/2022	AMC $24 PUT SELL 1/7	37	Assigned
1/5/2022	HOOD $16.5 PUT 1/7 SELL	25	assigned
1/11/2022	AMC 1/21/2022 Call $36	19
1/11/2022	HOOD 1/21/22 $22 Call	7
1/26/2022	AMC 2/4/2022 Call $36	9

Compared to 2021 Jan  this month is better. But other  months will be difficult.

I will continue to collect as much premium i can from some of my covered calls.

	2021	2022
January	64	97

2022 Dividend Hikes --AMGN,UPS,GILD,PEP,TROW

 In 2022  my portfolio received 12 dividend hikes so far and 1 dividend  Cut(T). The dividend increases will offset the project cut and add some more

Shares	Divided Increases
CINF	13.7952
CVX	9.12
ADM	2.6172
ED	3.12
AMGN	18.6768
TROW	28.1232
GILD	7.92
MMM	2.0776
PEP	0
PRU	4.174
UPS	22.32
D	3.63128
WFC	24.09
	139.66528

 Biggest Impact are WFC,UPS,AMGN and TROW. I have been adding TROW to my existing position.

Even with the cut of T dividend ,this will impact me more than $100 and these increases will offset and around $30 in additional dividends. 

2022 January Dividends

January is  in books  and this month i received $423 in dividends for the month .Compared to previous years some of the biggest increases were from Fundrise, ITW and DG. I was doing recurring investments in DG and ITW last year.

	2021	2022
WMT	9.23	9.51	0.28
MO	25.98	28.72	2.74
LADR	4.67	4.83	0.16
O	6.24	6.75	0.51
CSCO	21.55	22.6	1.05
VTR	15.15	15.39	0.24
BNS	40.8	46.94	6.14
MO	21.5	25.95	4.45
ITW	7.24	15.54	8.3
STWD	25.32	27.45	2.13
DG	3.6	7.67	4.07
CSCO	10.08	11.03	0.95
IRM	6.17	6.35	0.18
PEP	11.69	13.07	1.38
MO	7.99	9.46	1.47
AGNC	6.17	6.54	0.37
STWD	56.24	58.78	2.54
CINF	33.53	36.03	2.5
NLY	12	12.62	0.62
JPM	9.9	11.2	1.3
Fundrise	30.3	46.73	16.43
	365.35	423.16	57.81

Compared to all my Previous January this is the second highest and compared to last year its an increase of  18%.

2022 Dividend Goal: This year my Goal is 14K in dividends ,Last year I was able to get 12.5K in Dividends ,so this year i need another 1500 in dividends to reach my goal. I am hoping to achieve this with New investments and dividend increases.

With January dividends this stands at 3% of my goal.