$TQQQ STRANGLE 240223 CALL 62.5/PUT 48.5$ With the recent slightly hotter than expected inflation data, the market took a dive and recovered slightly before the close, I am expecting the market to be ranged bound for awhile with other economic data this week. Opened a few strangle contract on $Nasdaq100 Bull 3X ETF(TQQQ)$  expiring next week to earn premium or acquire/sell some at an attractive price. [Cool]  

$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$   NVDIA is a long term hold for me. My target price is about $1200. Their earnings shown a growth of about 8%. However, Nvidia is making a China Complaint chip for the China Market that is said to launch this year, I can only see more growth ahead unless there's a change in future news. I will continue to sell calls and puts to optimise RoR. Their graphics and data center side still strong as usual.  I was expecting a +-15% change after earnings report and its currently up 8% after market, It's a good report and I'll get to keep the premiums from my strangle. Wouldn't mind buying more at 545 or selling at 940 (highly unlikely by this week).  $NVDA STRANGLE 240223 PUT 545.0/CALL 940.

$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$  $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$  Have always believed in NVDA since my gaming days and when GPUs were used to mine cryptocurrrencies. Now it's onto A.I. I still believe that this is just the beginning of what NVDA has to offer and will play an important part in whatever is ahead in the tech space. A recent article showed NVDA would be partering with Cisco to improve cybersecurity using AI, this should further improve their data center business. Apart from these, NVDAs reports are showing good growth and numbers to support it. However, I feel it is definitely overextended and due for a correction or range bound. I'll just continue to hold here and  sell some calls.

$Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$  Have been holding PLTR for a long time as I still believe that PLTR has a big role to play in AI for the government, military and possibly the healthcare sector. PLTR has constantly shown growth in both the commercial and private sector with renewed contracts and new contracts. They are also using their own product to assist themselves. This is good to see as well to build clients/investors confidence. Let's go PLTR!

$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$  is a long term hold for me. Will not jump into buying other chip stocks for now as NVDA is considered cheap compared to the others. What many might do wrong is jumping into another chip stock thinking its the next NVDA. My target price is about $1200. Their earnings shown a growth of about 8%. However, Nvidia is making a China Complaint chip for the China Market that is said to launch this year, I can only see more growth ahead unless there's a change in future news. I will continue to sell calls and puts to optimise RoR. Their graphics and data center side still strong as usual. I was expecting a +-15% change after earnings report and its currently up 8% after market, It's a good repor

$SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust(SPY)$  I do not have 15 years of experience yet but hopefully I will be able to beat the SP500 consistantly. The most important way to beat the market is to invest in quality stocks, stay updated and keep up with news and earnings but to also trade (buy puts to hedge, sell puts and calls for income to reinvest). Also, keep cool and calm, do not trade on emotions. Take the night off if you're not feeling it or losing your emotions. Do not force a trade. (I try to remind myself daily but still fail at it sometimes)

I think learning to hedge using options is a skill that investors as well as traders should have in their arsenal. I decided to hedge my downside risk when the market rally started to get shaken by inflation news, jobs data and news of a hard landing and also the spike in the vix (volatility).  I hedged by buying $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$  and $Invesco QQQ(QQQ)$  puts as NVDA was my largest position. Why didn't I just sell my NVDA and buy the dips? That's because my average cost on NVDA is really low and I'm still bullish on NVDA and would like to keep my position. The hedged allowed me to hold my entire NVDA position without it losing value, potentially lowering my average cost even fut

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ I would say both are equally important. Timing would be important for traders while ticker would be more important for investors. Traders are always looking for the right time to jump in and out of a trade, what they need is a ticker with volatile no matter the quality of the ticker. Investors would look for a ticker that shows good management, growth potential for the long run. For me, i try to get a good timing (CSP) and a good ticker, that's definitely a way to optimise your RoR. [Miser]  

This year I'm going to try out even more options strategy and try to make my very own and also to be even more level headed (emotionless) to prevent any impulsive or stupid trades that would lower my win rate and hopefully allow me to continue beating the indexes. Apart from investments and trading, probably start reading a little more, DRINK LESS and spend quality time with the family.  Lastly, to get a job. welp![Facepalm]  

Does it really matter? I have my portfolio hedged and ready to sell puts. Always be vigilant,  buy puts to hedge or sell puts to get the stocks you want in your portfolio at an even more attractive price.  If not, just get extra income with the attractive short put premiums as such high IV.  Remember to not be tempted by the premiums and sell puts on random stocks just because the premium high, do you own DD and sell puts on quality stocks. Good luck everyone!

2023, my portfolio was lifted mostly by big growth stocks while value stocks helped to balance with its low volatility while small grow stocks really lagged behind due to the high interest rate environment. However, I am optimistic that this year would be great for my bag of small growth stocks as we look forward to interest rate cuts. Hopefully the rate cuts would also continue to give big growth stocks a boost. Would be wise to trim some positions that has grown and became too heavy in the portfolio and hold some cash, but let's give it somevtime and reassess constantly.

Thank your Mr. Trump. Benefit more from you compared to my own government. 🤣   *It's a joke but true. For people with no sense of humor. 🙄 

February was great, stocks performed well and my new options strangle strategy was performing as well. Will continue to test the strategy in March. Good luck and all the best for March everyone! [Miser]

$WDAY STRANGLE 240301 CALL 370.0/PUT 260.0$ IV crush strangle from yesterday was a success and now to find the next company that's reporting earnings and repeat. 

$WDAY STRANGLE 240301 CALL 370.0/PUT 260.0$ Expecting $Workday(WDAY)$ to make a 8-10% move in either direction for this earnings report but I'll use a +-15% stranggle to optimise RoR (IV crush), I'm also fine with stocks being being assigned or getting called away.

$NVDA STRANGLE 240223 PUT 545.0/CALL 940.0$ I am expecting a movement of +-15% at the release of $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$  earning report. Opened a strangle to earn premium (maybe iv crush) or buy more at attractive price or sell my shares if it reaches that high. Not going to be the direction with a buy option. Good luck everyone!