@wigglyz:$PDD Holdings Inc(PDD)$ $Alibaba(BABA)$ $Baidu(BIDU)$ Stock prices do not go up in a straight line. Profit taking, weak holders bailing out are expected. China's PMI came in better than expected. The trend is your friend and it is up. Good opportunity to accumulate more. Patience and holding power are the keys. Have no fear. The best is yet to come. Don't believe all those craps about value traps for these gems![Happy][Happy][Happy]

@wigglyz:$PDD Holdings Inc(PDD)$ $Alibaba(BABA)$ $Baidu(BIDU)$ Stock prices do not go up in a straight line. Profit taking, weak holders bailing out are expected. China's PMI came in better than expected. The trend is your friend and it is up. Good opportunity to accumulate more. Patience and holding power are the keys. Have no fear. The best is yet to come. Don't believe all those craps about value traps for these gems![Happy][Happy][Happy]

@happiness000:$Apple(AAPL)$ Let's look at AAPL, which is currently ~$227/share. If you bought 100 shares, you'd spent $22,700. If it runs up to $240 a share, you made $1300 in profit. Your max loss is also $22,700 for this trade.If you buy four Jan 2026 $195 strike calls, you'd have a smaller max loss of $20,200 and would make anywhere from ~$4300 to $1500 if it hit $240 a share in the next 200 days. Your payout at a $240 target starts getting worse than the shares after about 220 days, until the calls eventually expire worthless after Jan 16 2026.

@jazzyxx:$Alibaba(BABA)$ I was buying like crazy anytime share prices fell under $70 but I also traded half my position away every time BABA got above $84.I wanted to keep some exposure to China, so almost all of my BABA gains were put into BYDDF $BYD Co., Ltd.(BYDDF)$ and TCOM $Trip.com Group Limited(TCOM)$ which ended up giving me better returns than having kept it in BABA.That was not due to any particular market timing, just that I was tired of the mostly sideways of BABA and had determined being long might not be as rewarding as my original thesis. I thought BYDDF was better long and TCOM was even more undervalued than BABA and had a better