#Options Strategy Test I am now looking at the calendar spread strategy. I noted that the dates for calendar spread is pre-determined by a certain pre-set dates given by the system.   If i have in mind the following buy call calendar spread strategy: AAPL 18 Aug/20 Oct $195, i am not able to find the expiry date of 18 Aug on the short leg side, the closest to my strategy is the preset date of 2 months interval of 4 Aug. See below: 1) Can i change the dates like placing on individual option rather than use a pre-set date given by the system? 2) Can I also change the strike price, instead of the traditional calendar, Im using a diagonal spread. Using the same example above, I now want to place a diagonal buy call spread as follows: AAPL buy call 20 Oct $195 AAPL sell call 18 Aug $200

Is Tesla a buy after the stock split?Tesla’s latest move, an upcoming stock split,        should draw some new interest. As in the past 12 months Tesla shares has been on a roller coaster  from its low of $620 to a high of $1200 due to      negative investor sentiments that surround Tesla & Elon musk's embroiled in the highly                      sensationalised twitter take over. Nevertheless there are some positivities for Tesla  now & some analysts has accorded a re rating for Tesla to outperform/bullish. The short term price.  target post split is $333-$360. Factors imputed in the price are as follows:1)“improved production” from the company’s  

$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$My darling semi-conductor company is displaying massive pullback-I'm not selling yet as I believe it will turnaround in 2023.

$Airbnb, Inc.(ABNB)$This stock is highly recommended by analysts. Although online booking for vacation is picking up postpandemic, due to highly negative market sentiment, Airbnb Is also beaten to a record of 52wk low today at $92.09.

$Amazon.com(AMZN)$Despite all the negativities in the market on AMZN, hope it is bullish during its first day of trading after stock split basis on 6 June 2022. 

Have Chinese Stocks Already bottomed?What's Next for Chinese Stocks?We can never predict what the Chinese govt willdo next. After successive battering of the market from the curbs imposed on property developers that set loan limit widely known as the "three red lines”that pushed many developers to the brink of bankruptcy to the crackdowns of Chinese technology companies, that send the stocks of the latter in a tailspin.  E-commerce Titan, Ali baba was fined $2.8 billion in an anti-monopoly probe, and China's largest ride-hailing firm Didi was forced to stop user registrations while regulators conduct a cybersecurity reviewof the company, just few days after it's US listing.These introduction of regulations in the past fe

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$  I'm still bearish on TSLA for now eventhough there are some analyst who up their rating on TSLA.  TSLA May very well test the $150 support going to year end; I believe there are some more crucial factors that is still weighing down on TSLA 1) TSLA is synanomous with Ellon & the massively controversial headlines he made as a result of purchase of Twitter 2) TSLA has been oversold-contributed but Ellon to finance his Twitter's purchase. 3) Ellon's span of attention on TSLA is also diluted by the fact that he has other projects, other than the newly acquired Twitter, space-X. 4)The fierce competition TSLA is facing from otherchinese EVs like Nio, BYD, Li auto, Xpen

The name Tesla is synonymous with Electric Vehicle (EV). Ellon selling of 6.9b of Tesla has no bearing on TSLA’s performance or it does not signal that he is downsizing his interest in TSLA. Infact he has in the past sold some of his interest in TSLA with same speculations that is done to finance his Twitter’s purchase. Notwithstanding I will still buy & hold Tesla for the long term as EVs are the only vehicles that will dominate the road going forward into the 2030s. Infact Biden administration is supportive of the new clean bill & the inflation reduction Act in particular that has just been passed, if approved will accord Tesla with tax credit beyond the sales of 200k EVs. Also we know that interests in EVs charging has been ramped up with names like charge point holdings, b

$Qualcomm(QCOM)$Hoping to give some moral support to my fellow investors. Hopefully today encouraging market close will revive market sentiment. 

$VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF(SMH)$  A good buy going into 2023 now that chips industry has fallen by average if 40%to 70% from high of 2022. Also with Biden support of the chips Act in the pipeline & the I anticipated boom of the EV industry that requires chip for the cars.  

As we know the S&P has lost 20.6% in the first half of 2022-it's worst in more than 50 years. Despite the trashing of the US stock market, my investment strategy is simple, stay invested for the long term at least 10 years with diversified investments in stocks & real estate.Now the reality check, for US market although the S&P has lost more than 20% my portfolio only shed about 10%. However although the US market appears losing its steam, I think this is only a short term phenomena, I'm giving the market to bottom down until September 22, and hopefully it will reversethese loses towards year end. On the flip side I'm only investing my liquid funds that I don't have immediate need & Infact I'm taking this once in a fewyears opportunity that the market is presenting to inves

$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$ As we know Nvidia has dropped 57% YTD. My worst performing stock in 2022 is tipped to stage a comeback. I couldn't agree more as Nvdia is the leader in high end chips market. Betting On Nvidia is like doing the same to technology.  Its market focus include data centres, cloud, AI, automotive & autonomous driving, robots, drones, supercomputing, graphics, among others. For that I know Nvidia is well positioned to recover despite its recent earnings misses by a wide margin. The industry as a whole has underperformed the market & Nvidia is no exception. I still have faith in Nividia who used to be one of the the forerunners in the chips sector that has now been badly beaten by the ma

$Amazon.com(AMZN)$ AMZN is a LT investment stock.  Although AMZN isnot getting a thumbs up by analysts presently, I'm still bullish especially its cloud services business which it is a dominant player other than its main E-commerce business. It has also diversified into healthcare business.  AMZN is without doubt a force to reckon with in the future.

$Blue Water Vaccines Inc(BWV)$Not in the blue but in the deep rate.  Still not budging & holding on-hopefully the storm will be over soon😭😭😭

$Twilio(TWLO)$Thought this stock will fly to the moon but obviously not meant to be.  Still I do see the potential of it bouncing back, so not willing to close my position.

INCOMEInterest rate hike that sent fear in the market coupled with recent factors that sent panic and fear in the stock market means more income for momentum investor like me.  I know from history that the market will increase about 10% at year end after the rate hike.  So if my horizon is short term buying especially strong companies that I've always wanted T o buy but was overpriced like Amazon & Alphabet,Tesla etc (the lists go on as 95% of stocks were down prior to the announcement of rate hike)is a good opportunity to increase my income.  I will also go long term for good profitable companies with strong cashflow, especially those that I've mentionedand analysts are also bullish about. In short whatever your investment objective is at the end of the h

$Amazon.com(AMZN)$Yay!! Woke up to have in multiples of 19X shares more  in account!!!  What a bumper!!! I believe Amazon will easily surpass the $200 mark in the short term.  Congratulations to all Tigers who own Amazon.

$Netflix(NFLX)$ Finally seeing the light from the other side of the tunnel. Hopefully the streaming service for Nflx will bring in more good news for its investors.

Powell speech-market up or down?In the past Fed has sent mixed signals to the market that resulted in mixed interpretations & wild swings initially 4 weeks of summer rally then of late last 3 days of market reverse because market expect Fed to be dovish on the interest rate hike which did not materialise.  So what is the expectation for the coming speech at Jackson hole? Let's begin with the facts-what we do know is that inflationary pressure has been contained although employment is still high.  Fed did acknowledge that the aggressive rate increases in the past to curb inflation, yet it still want the economy to expand.  Citing the "slow global growth and muted inflation" Fed has lowered the target range rate hike by a quarter percentage to