Options Update: August 2016

This article is the first in a new series of articles about my options trades in DivGro.

Some readers may not be interested in options, so they can just skip these articles. Others may be interested in learning about options or just following along. And I'm sure there are several dividend growth investors, who, like myself, are interested in boosting dividend income with options trades.

As for myself, this series will help me to track my options trades and to learn more about options. Certainly, some of the learning will come from research I do before writing articles, but I hope I'll also learn from questions and comments from those readers that share my interest in options trading.

Tracking your DGI Portfolio

Last month, All About Interest posted a nice article about using Google Docs for your portfolio. In his article he describes several ways to import data into a Google Docs spreadsheet. The easiest and most convenient way is to use the GoogleFinance function, which fetches current and historical stock information from Google Finance.

The purpose of this post is to explain the content of the above-mentioned article for readers that are not so technically inclined. I'm not presenting anything new here, except for a sample spreadsheet containing the necessary formulas.