$Royal Caribbean Cruises(RCL)$   RCL: taking loss. Closed all my short positions on RCL at $363 and eat my humble pie. Another one of the large positions that I've closed these few weeks in my attempt to rebalance my portfolio and cut off dead weights. Taking loss is a part of the trading game but taking large losses is not. For this case, I was over exposed with large trade that went sour. Bitter this might be, I'm owning my trade decision and share this out just like I've shared the other 1000+ trades since Trade Feed function was enabled. A lesson for myself to remember and what don't kill me makes me stronger 💪. 

$VXX 20250815 40.0 PUT$ VXX: collect $50 (0.6%) premiums from these short pits with strike at $40. Contract expires next Fri on 15th Aug.  Volatility is coming back down after initial spike last Friday 1st Aug on weak non farm payroll data.  Decided to initiate new trades with lower strike and if assigned will be able to lower my holding average of VXX shares that I already owned.  Won't know when the next volatility event will happen, but VXX for me is a bear hedge so it will continue to decay and lose some money over time unless market is sharply down.

$SOFI 20251128 26.0 PUT$ sharing profitable options trade to earn weekly coins.  Going to expire this Friday so it's almost fully depleted.  Slight scare last week when it dipped to $23.52 last week and was in the money with strike $26.  Price recovered sharply this whole week and it trades above strike so I'm going to let it expire worthless since Fri is only half day trading due to Thanksgiving holidays.