I stood at the beginning of the Camino de Santiago at the Montserrat Monestary. It’s a life long dream of mine to walk it one day. Better get moving because I ain’t getting any younger! Though many more walk el Camino de Santiago for other than religious reasons. Many say that the Camino is time to reset their life. It is an incredible experience and opportunity to disconnect and experience a slower daily life with few modern interruptions. Read more...

Neat infographic on where you can drink tap water in the world. This is handy when you travel because I almost made the mistake of drinking from the tap in Macau. Source: Reddit

It looks like the price per ton of Cocoa is now about $8,900 whereas Copper is only $8,700-ish. Crazy times but I’m guessing there’s WAY MORE INFLATION IN THE PIPELINE than what we are led to believe. JPOW has to keep it going until after the election. Source Reddit

My goal in with trading is to execute flawless trades. Seek the best entry, manage my risk, and exit with profit. Some of my trades are better than others but this week I bought 5 AMD calls and 5 COST calls. I’m still watching my MSFT diagonal put spread, with my first short put option expiring at the end of the week. Granted, if I get assigned (which is a low probability) I’ll just sell covered calls on those 100 shares. Read more...

Markets had an interesting week, especially if you were trading the #AI stocks like NVDA and AMD. Both of those darlings sold off. NVDA looks to be firming up but it’s too early to tell. AMD is heading lower and I expect it to test the $180 level. I’d become a buyer around there. After transferring my brokerage account over to Interactive Brokers (referral link), I put on a single #options trade. Read more...

Source: Reddit

I sat out most of the week because I was transferring my brokerage account from TD Ameritrade to Interactive Brokers (referral link). It took 3 days to move everything over and today (Thursday) I made my first diagonal options trade. I bought a Jul 21 MSFT $405 put and sold a Mar 21 MSFT $410 put. The plan is to hold the July put till about June and sell weekly puts to get premium. Read more...

I saw this on r/algotrading and cracked up. The reality is that there is no such thing as an easy buck or easy riches. You can get rich by luck but building wealth is hard. Easy bucks can disappear and they usually do. If you manage it right, wealth can stick around for a long time.

My plan is to stay out of the market today. There was some violent sell off on Friday in the semiconductors. All the stocks and ETFs I follow sold off and there were a lot of shooting starts or bearish engulfing candles. Several of the indices are looking tired too, the S&P500 has a bearish engulfing candle as well. But MSFT is hanging in there, that’s one that I want to bet on for the long term and I might be increasing my long term holdings of it. Read more...

This is a trade review of my Advanced Micro Devices AMD call option trade. Why was I interested in AMD? Because it’s getting action for momentum traders interested in the AI market. Which way was AMD trading? It was in a long upward trend. Was AMD making an all-time high? Yes. When did you enter the trade and at what cost? I entered the trade on 3/1/2024. I bought 5 May 17, 2024 AMD Calls for $8. Read more...