Not to scale. Installing solar on your house is should cost you $20k for a 10kW system, with 26% back with the ITC bringing you down to $14,800. That will generate at least 12 MWH per year, so if you're paying $120 per MWH that gets you to 10% per year before state level incentives. But, since you're avoiding a cost paid for with after tax dollars, once you've gotten your initial investment back you're getting that return effectively tax free, which would be better than 12% before tax. That's an example of something I would classify as actually low risk, but then you can only put about $15k into it for your average home.
Safest way to make 1% per month
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I stumbled across this looking for a different title: Haven't read the book but sounds like what you are looking for.
Amazon.com: THE 12% SOLUTION: Earn A 12% Average Annual Return On Your Money, Beating The S&P 500, Mad Money’s Jim Cramer, And 99% Of All Mutual Fund Managers… By Making 2-4 Trades Per Month eBook : Carter, David Alan: Kindle Store
Amazon.com: THE 12% SOLUTION: Earn A 12% Average Annual Return On Your Money, Beating The S&P 500, Mad Money’s Jim Cramer, And 99% Of All Mutual Fund Managers… By Making 2-4 Trades Per Month eBook : Carter, David Alan: Kindle Store
1) He's a Trumper so there is that cognitive-ceiling.
2) I saw the Greenwich/Madoff prospectus in the summer of 2004. The moment I read "split-strike conversion" I knew he meant synthetic bull verts. The fact that someone was running money without understanding the payoff was surreal, but I didn't look deeply into his history. Now, I didn't cry fraud bc we had just witnessed the internet bubble and were early in the housing crisis. ofc he was exposed before reporting 2008 numbers, but I would have been calling the SEC had I looked into his prior performance.
I don't know, I read all the posts here and I really was interested in the topic op decided to go for. I mean, I'm not exactly doing this since 10 years or so, but I am nearing 2 years at least.
I am a premium seller with options, mostly on equities, sometimes ETFs, but more interestingly futures (CL/NG). I'm not one of the degenerates from reddit's WSB or theta gang - I know how to risk and money manage and I don't like leverage. So, it's not just that I don't leverage, I actually deleverage: Being short vol most of the time, I hold around 0.55 of my bankroll cash as collateral and actively play the corresponding 0.45 of the bankroll as actively used collateral for premium selling mostly on a monthly basis. This is supposed to result in 10-12 waves of trades a year. However, I do operate on the 0.55-cash-collateral, too. Very safely, or at least, as safe as can get, so there actually is some kind of gain on this 0.55-part, too.
I actually managed some heavy drawdowns in Feb/Mar '21 on short puts this way (upper 30% range on numerous positions) quite ok, so I guess and hope this counts as a risk management which is kind of resilient.
Now to the 1%/month-thingy: Totally ignoring what comes out of the 0.55-part of the bankroll, I intend to score 1%/month (for the total of the bankroll that is) by way of this strategy, and I must say, that I overachieve - not exactly by far, but still - significantly.
So, all in all, I guess, this is my take on a 1%/month strategy. But it consumes some time in my case.
EDIT: Just to add...maybe I sold myself too cheap here. This is indeed delivering way above the 12%-mark/year. All in all, ignoring the fact that 2021/22 were good years, I estimate this approach to deliver close to 20-25%/year pre tax.
I am a premium seller with options, mostly on equities, sometimes ETFs, but more interestingly futures (CL/NG). I'm not one of the degenerates from reddit's WSB or theta gang - I know how to risk and money manage and I don't like leverage. So, it's not just that I don't leverage, I actually deleverage: Being short vol most of the time, I hold around 0.55 of my bankroll cash as collateral and actively play the corresponding 0.45 of the bankroll as actively used collateral for premium selling mostly on a monthly basis. This is supposed to result in 10-12 waves of trades a year. However, I do operate on the 0.55-cash-collateral, too. Very safely, or at least, as safe as can get, so there actually is some kind of gain on this 0.55-part, too.
I actually managed some heavy drawdowns in Feb/Mar '21 on short puts this way (upper 30% range on numerous positions) quite ok, so I guess and hope this counts as a risk management which is kind of resilient.
Now to the 1%/month-thingy: Totally ignoring what comes out of the 0.55-part of the bankroll, I intend to score 1%/month (for the total of the bankroll that is) by way of this strategy, and I must say, that I overachieve - not exactly by far, but still - significantly.
So, all in all, I guess, this is my take on a 1%/month strategy. But it consumes some time in my case.
EDIT: Just to add...maybe I sold myself too cheap here. This is indeed delivering way above the 12%-mark/year. All in all, ignoring the fact that 2021/22 were good years, I estimate this approach to deliver close to 20-25%/year pre tax.
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Are those loans to contractors or the owner of the thing being constructed?