I can't honestly say this has been entirely due to my options trading, a lot of this profit has been from companies researched and bought last year or during the last big dip in 2023.  In the bear market of q3 2025 I went long several LEAP calls on tech stocks that I read might see upside with potential projects and deals in the pipeline. It was mainly to farm income on PMCC but I eventually exercised my long call options this year after buying them in Q1 2025.  Mainly I had hoped to have made more but the temptation to take huge risk and gamble continues to be a weakness I have to rein in. 

$Caterpillar(CAT)$   One of my favourite stocks this year: picked this up in January 2026 on the back of news about data centre construction ramp ups. Caterpillar is an established name in the business and apart from the popular yellow cranes and bulldozers that we often see at construction sites, they provide generators and power for data centres.  It is low now, and a good time to pick it up. I personally am going to pick up some more pieces of this stock. One of my favourite pick-and-shovel trades on the back of the AI boom.  There is more upside to be had, and this is a long hold investment for me. I'll either do CSP on it and then if I get filled on my put strike I'll begin to short covered calls o

Happy to have made >100k in 5 months of 2026 from mostly options trading.  Obviously wish it could be more, and still made so many mistakes, but everything is a learning journey. 

$NVDA 20260109 195.0 CALL$  NVDA Jade Lizard Part 2: closed the final leg for +US$3K. Held the calls through the Fed cut expecting possible hawkish or sell-the-news vibe. This was the second part after I took the 70% profit on CSP leg. Continue to hold Nvda stock and will continue to sell a new covered call next week. 

$CRWV 20260220 65.0 PUT$  I closed the CSP and took the approx 30% instead of trying to squeeze the last bit of theta out of it. Momentum appears to have lost steam and I don't see aggressive buying volumes on the dips unlike recent trends. Felt like retail buying not backed by institutional. Gut feeling isn't the best strategy but for this one happy to log that it worked out with recent bearish news on CRWV. The 2$B convertible notes seem a red flag and hints of over leverage.  In line with the AI bubble narrative it is worth to be more cautious with these stocks that have expended most of their gas in the recent bull runs this year. I might be wrong but anyway, happy to take profit and start over. had no idea a mult

$NVDA 20251219 165.0 PUT$  POV: You set up a jade lizard before earnings, took 70% profit on the CSP right before NVDA nuked (caught that IV crush 😎) and now you’re just sitting back letting the credit call spread finish the job. 🐉💅📉 

$NFLX 20250516 1105.0 PUT$ 

Enjoyed reading this simply written and insightful post by @koolgal 

$ARM 20260605 255.0 CALL$  More covered calls.  a portion of this profit is from PMCC; did a deep ITM LEAP call ARM long call option to maximise the covered call premium profit a little.  Caution on these, be sure to track earnings and company performance so you don't get the underlying ripping through your strike price on bullish headlines.  Still working through preferred delta and gamma with these headline sensitive and volatile tech stocks.  Does anyone really use .3 delta or do you stay more conservative <.3? 

$PLTR 20260515 155.0 CALL$  More regular farming on one of my holds.  The premium isn't great but I managed to snag PLTR in the early days (9-20$ range) so multiple lots can be covered on options.  Pure luck, I wouldn't say there was much skill involved here. Just farming income from lucky timing in 2023. 

$ASML 20260508 1550.0 CALL$  Regular weekly to bi weekly covered calls on ASML.  While it's exhilarating to get lucky on a company and make a neat profit on bullish news, the need for consistency and regularity of income is a huge boon regardless. Hedged both ways, capital gains, and cashing out on dips is simple, reproducible and fuss free.

$ASML 20260424 1435.0 CALL$  Usual weekly covered calls easier to do with bearish market on war news.  Tech stocks covered call season is here! 

$ASML 20260402 1445.0 CALL$  Decided to open 2 short calls this week, one covered and one not, still convinced that the bullish sentiment in the stock market is an inaccuratr delayed response to actual economic conditions. With the straits still closed and no resolution in sight i expect more bearish headwinds.  Covered call szn 🗿

$PLTR 20260417 177.5 CALL$  Not a massive cash out but this was 70% of the covered call's total value, and I held it for only 2 days before deciding it was past its time decay and while I could have gotten more today, still glad for the ROI on this.  PLTR has not been the spectacular bullish meme stock of the past despite all the U.S. defence contracts it holds and seems a prime stock to sell covered calls on. 

$ASML 20260327 1600.0 CALL$  It's covered call season! Currently on the look out for bullish stocks that will inevitably feel the pinch of rising oil prices due to the closed straits. My biggest challenge is setting the expiry to align with global announcements or earnings calls to avoid getting blasted through my strikes.  ASML continues to be one of my favourite tech stocks to sell covered calls on. 

$PLTR 20260213 200.0 CALL$  Caught the IV crush on this covered call and happy it has worked out profitably 

$Alphabet(GOOG)$  exercised the long LEAP call of my Google PMCC from January 2025. Has reaped me a decent income over the year and happy with the underlying gain on the stock. 

$ASML 20260116 1180.0 CALL$  Part of a hedging strategy but turned out to be profitable after I stopped loss on the short leg of the spread. 

$KHC 20251226 25.0 CALL$  Weekly CC/collecting full premium profit. Happy the strikes work out and delta was suitability risk managed 

$GLW 20251226 85.0 PUT$  Weekly PMCSP/ expires today and collecting full premium profit.  

$Yangtze Optical Fibre And Cable Joint Stock Limited Company(601869)$  Just sharing why I bought Yangtze Optical Fibre (YOFC, 6869.HK). I’ve been reading about relativity (aka: even “fast” has limits) and going down the rabbit hole on HCF, hollow core fibre. The simple idea is kind of wild: if light can travel more through air than glass, you can cut latency because air is faster for light than silica. That matters when the world is obsessed with real-time everything (AI clusters, data centers, cloud, trading, video, you name it).  For me this is akin to owning the “plumbing” that everyone needs no matter who wins. AKA picks and shovels investment and I have a "PMCSP" Running on Corning stock as well but just feel it isn't favourable to en

$ASML 20260102 1120.0 CALL$  ASML covered calls: took profit early (made ~$2K, missed ~$8K) Sharing a lesson from an ASML covered call. I sold 10 calls a bit too aggressively. If I’m honest, it was pure reckless greed because the premium looked great, so I sized up. Ate up margin like crazy cos it was majority naked call.  I bought them back for about $2K profit, but if I’d held longer, the premium kept decaying and it would’ve been closer to ~$8K. In hindsight, I exited “too early”. The real takeaway isn’t just timing, it’s position sizing. When you sell too many calls, your emotions start managing the trade for you! And as expiry gets closer, gamma risk ramps up: the option’s delta can change fast on small s

$GLW 20251212 85.0 PUT$  Poor man's CSP: found that Corning is a perfect candidate for this strategy since it is such a bullish trend stock. I would love to own this so either way the strategy works for me- if I get done on my short put I am happy to own the stock, benefit from any downside with the long leap put, and basically be paid to wait but using less margin. This is my first week farming income from Corning.