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.

Recent Buys--TROW,CSCO,SO,WMT,BMY

 With New year started ,i added few shares in existing Positions

This will add another $97 in dividends for my annual dividends.

I am looking adding AVGO,AFL  in upcoming days .

2021 December Options

 Final month of the year is in books and i received around $420 in options  and for the year i  received more than $4.5k

As month of my months i was  dealing with AMC,LCID,HOOD.

Date	Call	Option Premium	Notes
27-Dec	AMC 12/31/2021 Call $50	9
27-Dec	LCID 12/31/2021 $34 put	75
20-Dec	LCID 12/23/2021 $35 put	61
6-Dec	LCID 12/10/2021 $35 put	115
13-Dec	AMC $20 PUT 12/17 SELL	82
13-Dec	HOOD $18 PUT12/17 SELL	49
17-Dec	AMC 12/23/2021 Call $50	30

None of  the calls or puts were assigned this month .Most of the options income is reinvested into dividend stocks .

January	64
February	485
March	556
April	274
April	204
May	154
June	216
July	424
August	354
September	448
October	280
November	624
December	421
	4504

This year turned out to be decent one for me from options point. If I can repeat this in 2022 it will be good.

2021 December Dividends

 Final Month of 2021 is in books and I received very good Dividends for this month and this helped me achieve my goal of 11k in Dividends for 2021 .Total Dividends for this month are $2881 and most of them are my from retirement accounts $2881 and this a new Record for December and This pushed my 2021 Dividends to 12.5K for the year. This is almost 1k a  month 

Compared to 2020 December  my dividends were up by $1200 and 71%.Now some of increase came from dividend hikes and other from New investment like LMT,AVGO

Dec-19	Dec-20	Dec-21
2688	1677	2881

Currently the quarter ends are the big numbers  and January seems to be the lowest dividend month for me. I am trying to add more funds if possible .

2022 Dividend Goal: This year I am hoping to achieve 14K in dividends .