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Selling option premium has been very profitable for me and I hope to keep it going in 2025. With the incoming Trump administration’s dovish and supportive view on Bitcoin, I have to look at ways to make money off that. The IBIT ETF has been front and center lately for me and I will be looking to sell puts on this volatile bad boy. Here’s the chart for IBIT: ...

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Othmane and Maxime, holders of dual master’s degrees and founders of NewTrading, discuss the realities of day trading in this insightful article. Despite the enticing stories of individuals making quick profits off a few trades during the Covid-19 pandemic, they caution that most of these anecdotes are merely stories. Research shows that the overwhelming majority of day traders lose money. Only 3% of day traders make a profit, and that number decreases to 1% when considering those who do so predictably. Many factors contribute to these significant losses, including lack of experience, biased trading, time commitment, cognitive biases, and emotional attachment to trading. ...

Monday saw US stock futures slide, largely led by tech, while bond yields and the dollar experienced a rise amid dwindling hopes for interest-rate cuts in front of this week’s significant consumer inflation report. Traders now anticipate no rate cut until at least September, prematurely drawing attention to the Consumer Price Index reading for December. Tech stocks underwent significant losses, with shares of Nvidia and Tesla dropping as all the “Magnificent Seven” tech megacaps suffered in the market turmoil. ...

This freaking awesome! About a third (34%) of Gen Zers are opting to do what’s known as “career catfishing.” This means a successful candidate accepted a job and then never showed up, according to a survey of 1,000 U.K. employees conducted by CV Genius. The results found career catfishing is one of many strategies employees are using to gain more autonomy at work, including coffee badging and quiet vacationing. However, Gen Z applicants aren’t alone in going no- and low-contact during the recruiting process. Some 74% of employers now admit that ghosting is a facet of the hiring landscape, according to a 2023 Indeed survey of thousands of job seekers and employers. ...

I “retired” in November 2024 after being laid off by a startup that shall remain unnamed. The severance package carried me through the end of the year, but I needed a new income stream. Thankfully, my wife works full-time, but I wanted to contribute and at least partially offset my lost income. So, what did I do to backstop my financial loss? I turned to selling option premiums—lots of them. My journey began in April when I started buying premiums, and I made a tidy profit. Then hubris struck. I tried to replicate my success, only to lose my gains—and then some. Lesson learned. ...