I am not a registered financial professional and your risk is your own. Invest at your own peril.

I’ve got to get better at updating this blog—I’ve been insanely busy between my day job and freelance business. Further, I suppose I’ve been waiting for some trades to fully resolve themselves, but I’m feeling the motivation to put veritable pen to paper. So, let’s do it:

My trading account suffered a total drawdown of around $3,000 since the last update. All of this is composed of unrealized losses that I am confident will recoup themselves in the coming days/weeks.

And in truth, they’re not even losses. We are just down from the peak of the trades that we already have open. You can see I have maintained a strong position in $BB and even opened some new cash-secured puts. All good in the neighborhood.

My Roth has not fared quite so well. I decided to open some cash-secured puts on $HOOD following multiple days of red for the stock, but it’s kept on dipping. Luckily, I went a couple weeks out and the premium is enough to keep me in profit—provided, of course, the price doesn’t drop much more. If I’m assigned $HOOD shares, I’m OK with that. I expect $BTC to surprise everyone in the coming month and stage a final leg up before the cycle wraps for 2025, but maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part. Of course, this would be positive for $HOOD and I.

We’re only down $1,850 from the absolute apex of our Roth’s value, so I’m not really all that concerned. But here are the positions, if you’re curious.