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What about Div ETF Fund diversity? Like anything else, you can own too many, having fund overlap with so many of them owning the same things, so much so that they'll move in unison. They're all fighting for your dollar, so it seems logical that they'll own the same things. How many is too many...

Doesn't it cost them more than a penny to pay a penny? I know it's probably symbolic, but if they're truly in a pinch, it's stupid.

According to my Yahoo stock info, FTR is paying a 20.39% dividend and BPT is paying a 16.85% dividend. How can that payout rate possibly be sustainable?

Those dividends aren't sustainable, right?

Is there much difference between owning MO or PM, big picture, long term? Thank you, Arnie

So I wonder how Karen is doing today?

SET 2029.72 and I was short the 2020 Puts... Close one. Enough for this year... Is it too early to have a drink? :) Wait, what are the Jan Monthly's doing?... ;-)

I sold the Monthly SPX 2090 calls and got an email today that I was assigned. I thought the settlement was the open on Friday morning? The S&P did not get above 2090 all day Thursday and did not gap up on Friday's open, not getting above 2090 until about 15 minutes into trading. The option...

Could someone please pour me a cup of coffee to wash down that huge slice of humble pie I had to eat today?... Ouch...

I'm involved with aviation, specifically Beechcraft Bonanzas, and there's a group that offers Bonanza specific training. I thought the acronym was BPT for Bonanza Pilot Training, so I googled BPT, saw the stock and saw the huge dividend, so I bought some, watched it go down $3 in no time, sold...

No, I did not short it , sure wish I did. Too chicken to short a stock.

Wow, what a fall...

Another great week in the paper account... Karen ain't got nuttin on me. Let's see, if I do a cash out refi on my RE, do the cash access checks on the CC's to build up the portfolio, I could make a killing trading with that much capital! Signed, Walter Mitty ;-)

Thanks everyone, very interesting replies. I'm obviously nothing like Karen S, but like her, I only trade S&P 500 options. It is funny to me how I'll sweat most trades in my real account, and be so cavalier with my paper account...Let 'er rip, tater chip. I trade the weeklies, in my paper...

I do trade...a lot.... But much safer positions with big cushions.

No, I know it's not real. I take huge one sided positions, no balance... Absotutely fearless. Always bull put credit spreads, WAY out of the money... Haven't lost yet. Karen Supertrader's kinda stuff. My real account? Big chicken.., It's gotta be because it ain't my money, real money, that's...

Now that's funny...

Fear of loss.

... Sure wish I could do the same in my real account. I do ok, but I'm killing it in my paper account. Same strategies... Oh well...

Well, with my option trading I broke even for the year yesterday...mostly Bull Put Credit Spreads...the down days came when I got spooked and closed out a position at a loss when doing nothing would have been the thing to do...I'da been fine... Ah, Credit Spreads, make a couple hundred, lose a...