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Escaping the 9–5 matrix | Road to Glory -

Documenting my investing & options trading journey. Sharing lessons along the journey. Not financial advice.

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🚨 PORTFOLIO UPDATE 🚨

Actuary by day. Part-time degen by night.

Here we go!

Thought I'd share where I'm currently at in my investing journey and my road to $1M.

Trading 212 - S&S ISA

This is my ISA port, which I've been building since the start of 2025.

I'm mainly invested in AI, its picks and shovels plays and space stocks. Yessss I love Rocket MONEY - $RKLB, $PLTR, $NVDA and $HOOD.

The port has been held back a bit recently by my exposure to photonics stocks. I'm still optimistic about the long term potential and hoping we see a much better 2027 for these plays.

Options Trading Account

I started options trading around October last year, so I'm pretty happy with how things have gone so far.

With options, I like to keep things simple. I genuinely believe simple = success.

I mainly focus on selling CC and CSP on a handful of stocks I have strong conviction in.

I want to own companies I actually believe in, rather than chasing every opportunity that comes along that yields high premiums.

One thing I'm learning and trying to control is that it's easy to get tempted by whatever is performing best right now. But just because something has worked for a year doesn't mean it'll keep working. Something I'm trying to remind myself of!

NOW HERE'S MY DILEMMA.....

Seeing how my options trading has been going is genuinely tempting me to move more money across from my ISA. Plus I'm not tempted to put anymore money into my 20k ISA allowance. Wild stuff.

Part of me is even thinking about going full port into options. Yeah like a degen.

But then again, am I just getting carried away by the recent performance?

Both portfolios have different strategies and risks, so it's not exactly a straightforward decision.

So do I stay patient with my ISA investment, or do I lean more towards investing into options?

I'd love to hear what you lot think, especially anyone who's been in a similar position.

THE ROAD TO £1M

One of the reasons I started Hand of Compound was to document the actual journey towards financial freedom. Not just the final results, but the decisions, lessons and dilemmas along the way.

I'm still learning, and hopefully we can all learn something from each other. If you're on your own investing journey, or just interested in building a better financial future, come along for the ride!

Let's learn, grow and build wealth together.

Not financial advice. Just sharing my journey.

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@Fearlespatriot Now I want you to multiply that by number of days into years.. give me hours of your lifetime

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@ApesAlphaHQ I'm waiting for Caroline to share her thoughts 🤔

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@Fearlespatriot What's bubu doing here

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@KGInvests_ Don't be afraid when the market corrects. It is healthy to see a market correction and when this happens there's no fear for a bubble.

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@Stealthct_Storm It is healthy if we have a correction. I'm looking forward to it

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@Ajithkumar4ak This is so controversial 👀

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@yourdivanshi Whats in the video is another question 😂

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@closingstance Always a good time to step back. One thing for me is to taking a break makes me think more clearly and make better decisions

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Right enough investing talk for a minute!.

I want to get to know the people behind these accounts a little better.

What's one thing you genuinely enjoy doing outside of investing?

Could be anything, hobbies, travelling, gaming, sports or just chilling.

Let's hear it 👇

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@traxler0991 Let's connect guys 💪

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@traxler0991 Grind grind grind LFG

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@closingstance I'm the same, love playing footy, padel, and so on. Love watching football too. Nice to keeping myself physically and mentally fit

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@EdgeReport91 Thank you bro 🔥🔥

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🚀🚀🚀 250 FOLLOWERS!! Can we push to 500?! 🚀🚀🚀

The support has been unreal.

I've got some exciting investing and options education content coming soon, breaking things down from scratch and keeping it simple for everyone.

I just want to share what I'm learning and help the community as much as I can.

If you know anyone on your timeline who wants to learn, send them my way.

Appreciate you all! Let's get to 500.

LFG!!! 🔥🙌

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@CamperdownCo Thank you bro 🙌🙌🙌

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@TheFrankzy LFG

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@SlavMarkets Thanks bro 🙌

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@PenneyInvests Congratulations 👏👏👏

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@rareliquidity Let's push

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@KGInvests_ 😂