I started trading in stocks only in February 2022I have always wanted to buy stocks but I was concerned about the risk.Finally, after a lot of YouTube videos, there came the Russia Ukraine war, and stock prices plummeted. And I started my investment journey.The very first shares I bought were the ones I believe have the strong fundamentals and values. I was interested to do long term investment and mainly wanted to focus on Tech stocks as potential growth stocks because most businesses adopted digital transformation during Covid. And as a Software Engineer, I believe the IT industry will continue to grow My very first stock I bought on 24 Feb was $Alphabet(GOOGL)$because I trust its business. But the price was not cheap, I bought
$COF VERTICAL 260220 CALL 250.0/CALL 260.0$ Following Price Pattern. Low implied volatility to buy options, and with earnings upcoming, both implied volatility and stock price could go up. Plan to take Profit at 60% gain or Stop loss at 50%.
$DOW DIAGONAL 260102/251219 CALL 23.5/CALL 25.0$ Closed at a bit of loss when the stock went up. Betting for Bullish but the setup breaks, going below 23.5. Will reenter when the signal indicates bullish trend again.