#TradingWisdom
Just sharing what worked for me after spending years and trying out different strategies, indicators, setups, Greeks and what not.. I've been profitable for last 5 yrs.
Aim for consistency over profits, if you can stick to few setups and get consistent positive results, you are setting up for success in this game. I used to run for higher gains with high risk plays with more around hope based plays instead of my conviction and setups, that eroded my previous gains quickly. I have slowed down and picking less trades but quality. I've been more consistent with wins now. Profits adds up fast if you are consistent.
Stop over trading, it's #1 factor people give back to market, whether it's trying to recover a loss or being greedy to pick more from market. Have some rules around and close or walk away after wins or losses.
Be focused: I used to try 10 different names at same time; success was sparse as it's really hard to be successful in all of them. Gains in one trade used to flushed out in another trade. So, pick your favorite ones and try repeatedly trade on those names, once you do that, you will get familiar with personality, style, price movements. Less is more I would say!
Prep before you play: Do study your setup, plays ahead of time and mark your potential entries and exits/stop losses if you are playing big sizes. Studying areas of interest, support/resistances, trendlines etc do help.
Set your rules: Come up with your own trading/investment rules which are pretty much your own customized ones, List them down and keep reading them so it becomes muscle memory. Few things that should be covered
- your setups/strategies/time frames you would like to stick to
- Checklist before entering a trade
- Indicators
- stop losses or position sizes
- Pricing/option greeks you want to stick to ITM/OTM expiry, deltas etc.
- cautionary things
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I'll share more in another thread and also will share my preferred strategies and rules.
Cheers!
$MSFT not sure what will wake this guy up!!
When rest of the world is ripping on AI, this giant is sleeping...
well, two plays you should consider
1. Sell puts
pick your comfort strike
- 350P July 17 is $460 (before next earnings)
- 400P July 24 $2200
- 450P Jan 2027- $7682 (very likely to get 100% profit, expecting $MSFT to hit 450 or more by Jan, we have plenty of time. This is sell and forget kind of trade
2. Closed your covered call. I did mine today with good profit.
3. Leaps-- Go Jan 2027 or beyond. It's hitting a key level on daily, I would add small long position vs 375 here.
Basically, premium you collect by selling puts can be used to buy stock or leaps, pick your favorite way. I've both
450C Jan 2027 or 450c Mar 2027
$SPY $QQQ $IWM
Market in some correction mode except few rare names in memory.
$TSLA almost 17% down from May highs
$NVDA ⬇️ 18%
$MSFT ⬇️ 25% (worst performer)
$META ⬇️ 18% (32 from year high)
$GOOGL ⬇️ 18%
$AAPL ⬇️ 14% ( Memory will cost apple more, price of product needs to be raised, that will impact sales, revenue)
So, you can see it's complicated relations, on one hand AI boom and other hand infrastructure costs, that led some of the falls of these big names. Memory, storage boosted due to demand. One sector wining, other is losing, that's the game.
Well, it's good to add to your LT folio some stocks, leaps or even some good opportunities at these prices for puts selling.
If you are selling puts, add 10-15% price buffer for downside and go 30-45 days minimum, I expect re-bound later in summer and some up word boom.
July earning season also coming, so that will add some clarity.
#StayCalm #Win
$SPCX before it flies back to Moon, it needs refueling :), good opportunity to start position if you have missed it last week.
I'm still not going to add more at this price point, but rather sell puts and get that premium (high IV) and my prices of 150
Sold some CSP 150P July 17 $420/con
some long dated- sell and forget kind
140P
150P
Jan, 2027
Do, what's comfortable for you, there are many ways to play here...
$QQQ @IWM $SPY
@SuperLuckeee ah, then nothing to worry :), still it was rare since you have great names and prices for most of your entries. My LT down like 2.8% today :)
@ripster47 I think 75 is going to be good support level to go long there vs 69 (SL). I would sell bunch of CSPs here, if it gets assigned, will happily take it :)
July 75P gives $247/contract, not bad at all.
@ripster47@TENETTRADEGROUP That's typicall story these days for many names- Valuation, P/E, fwd P/E, what are these, huh, look other way and lets push them to moon, profit. 😄😃. Follow the trend and get your $$$ in pocket, simple..
$SPCX paid well for lunch/dinner :)
$SPY $IWM $QQQ
Great ripping started, good for market and everyone (unless you went short )
$SPX hitting big 7400 mark again, nice recovery. I was expecting it as it had highest volume and interest
$SPX 7400C moved from $1.75 to $11 🚀
$GLD $MGC Gold traders/futures
Pay attention to some key levels, $GOLD has been on decline last few weeks and now has hit last year Nov 25 lows (when it started strong long journey to ATH).
I was trying to post this yesterday but couldn't, but wanted to call out that this may be good place to start a long position. Who knows what war situation will be but 4000 is great level and expecting some support. It did move nicely up today, the Trump tweet did another magic jump of 900 pips.
If it goes up and then breaks this level, you can exit or take short positions.
Other ways to play gold is through
$UGL $AGQ $GDXD (for short)
$MSFT not sure what will wake this guy up!!
When rest of the world is ripping on AI, this giant is sleeping...
well, two plays you should consider
1. Sell puts
pick your comfort strike
- 350P July 17 is $460 (before next earnings)
- 400P July 24 $2200
- 450P Jan 2027- $7682 (very likely to get 100% profit, expecting $MSFT to hit 450 or more by Jan, we have plenty of time. This is sell and forget kind of trade
2. Closed your covered call. I did mine today with good profit.
3. Leaps-- Go Jan 2027 or beyond. It's hitting a key level on daily, I would add small long position vs 375 here.
Basically, premium you collect by selling puts can be used to buy stock or leaps, pick your favorite way. I've both
450C Jan 2027 or 450c Mar 2027
$SPY $VIX $QQQ
Don't you love your president when he favors peace over strikes, good for everyone, isn't :)?
Love this spike, had perfect entry before this rocket spike at 725..
Thank you for your attention!
$SPY $IWM $QQQ Red day, spiked up $VIX...
That means good day to
✅Close Covered Calls and pocket profit
✅Sell some Puts and collect premium, always maintain a high probability list to sell your fav names puts, I've mine and been sharing time to time. But, do look at charts and key areas, don't just blindly sell puts just because market is down...
If you are more adventurous, hopefully put plays are working,
Sold some more puts on
$AMZN 11/20 220P $1136/con
$META 590P 01/2027 $6300/con
$TSLA 350P 11/20 $3055/contract
if mkt continue to slide, will add lower strike ones to add. I won't mind add these assigned to my folio.
So, sell only those names you want to keep and trust.
Bubble ones or high IV ones may look lucrative with premiums, but they can turn ugly fast. I've seen it and became bag holders of those names in 2022 :(, learned the lesson hard way.
Now, I just stick to my rules (you can search on my feed with detailed post on it)
Good luck! Red days are opportunity days!!!