(Intelligent Investor Chapter Breakdown) Chapter 1: Investments vs Speculation Investors vs Speculators. Investors use analysis and collect information to make an educated decision on buying a financial instrument that will return its principal value and a decent profit. Speculators make financial decisions based on emotional conviction. For the longest time in history investing was associated with speculative trading of common stock, due to the fact that the majority of the public were unfamiliar with common stock and companies. Common stocks were deemed risky due to historical crashes, even though analysis at the time showed that stocks were deeply undervalued. Institutional investors must adequately educate the public on the difference between investing and speculation or they risk bein
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TL;DR If you want to invest in ASML, but you are cautious about the entry price, my advice is to set a price alert on your brokerage app. I'm setting one right now at a 10% price drop, and when that alert hits I might open a small position, I’m also setting another alert at a 20% price drop and if that alert hits I will open a larger position. Quick analysis of ASML ASML is a company that specializes in the manufacturing of photolithography machines, Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) systems critical for producing our modern semiconductor chips. The company holds a near-monopoly on EUV technology and is the main provider for the chip manufacturers like $Intel(INTC)$ $Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
$TIGR 20250307 6.5 PUT$ Saw tiger reaching 6.5 levels and decided to sell puts there. The good thing is I'm glad I followed my original plans to not just sell puts weekly but to wait for the right price first. I'll be watching these key levels but if the China Market continues to pump, I will be betting that there will be a new floor for this stock around 7 -7.5. Market is in panic right now so proceed with caution. Selling puts is a bullish strategy, for those of you who own stocks, selling calls might be a safer hedge for you in this market. Im still in the red for my NVDA calls, but I plan on still holding, I'll keep you guys updated. @CaptainTiger &nbs
$GRAB 20250221 5.5 CALL$ sold a call on grab high kast night. Have been monitoring the stock for a while and it's gradual increase from 52 week low. The sudden jump made me think there would be quick correction at open, and sure enough there was, I bought shares and closed this call and later reopened another call to lock in my profit and hedge myself. I will share my inheritance trades soon.
$AAPL 20250314 227.5 CALL$ Decided to play some apple calls last night after ibsaw the sharp sell off. Was waiting to buy a call at the bounce and make a quick snipe. Unfortunately, I misread the volume data, while reading the MACD histogram. I should have waited for confirmation on the volume. Instead I wanted to get in early, and instead bought the fake out and the stock pushed lower. In red you see where I highlight the fake out, and in green I circled the real volume building, the stock was going down, but volume was steadily building, that should have been my confirmation and I would have bought at 0.25 a contract instead of 0.35, and made 0.13 difference instead of 0.3 Remember people ALWAYS watch the volume care
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$STLA 20260116 13.0 CALL$ a stellantis call I did when the stock was 12.50. I had a feeling market was pumping it up to dump, because when it was at a PE of 3, this stock could barely stay at 14. And now it has a PE of 8 and the stock is close to 13 dollars? In the short term its prime for a drop. Its P/B is really low and with a book value per share of 28, stelkantis is oversold. BUT Management sucks, they double down on crappy investments and divest from their profitable ones. They are riddles with strikes so their work force reliability is questionable. Their ROA is so low that their large assets don't make much of a boon in fact one could make the argument that such menial returns could be seen as depreciation of th
Stellantis all in with ny small US port. Give me time to stop worrying about where to put my US cash and focus on other things.
$TIGR 20250228 7.0 PUT$ bought back my tiger put that I sold last week, when stock dipped to 7 dollars. I knew the stock had been oversold, with 2 straight days of selling. Judging from the EMA and volume analysis, I determined that there wouldn't be much more room to go down, and that Market Movers would be looking to scoop up the stock. It was a risky bet selling so close and I made the mistake of trying to fight the price so ended with 0.26 premium for 3 contracts. The following day Tiger stock fell even more and my position was ITM, but I did not panic because my conviction was strong. And even if was wrong. I would get assigned and own shares of s company I didn't mind holding. 7 is not the price I would buy at but don't m
$GRAB 20250221 5.0 CALL$ Taking profit on my final grab call of the week. In total I did 2 calls in the same week. 1 at Monday Open when stock hit 52 week high, then closed after the dip. Then I saw that the sell off was extreme and knew that the following day the market would buy the dip. So sold another call, but used a GTC order which I think is important for Singapore traders, we cant stay up late at night monitoring the market. This time instead of closing I decided to see how the option would decay as the week came to an end. On Friday the option was bouncing between 0.15 and 0.05 and I decided that 90% profit is more than enough, didn't want to risk the chance of market pumping last minute and having to sell
$Stellantis NV(STLA)$ The downward move finally came. This was after Stellantis announced that they were cutting their projections by quire a margin. It has reduced its operating income margins to 5.5% down from 7%, when previously it had projected double digit range. The company is expecting North America, its largest sector to experience a lot less in sales. Its cutting their projections. Stellantis is definitely tightening its belt in expectation of the gloomy outlook on the auto industry for the coming year. They are offering incentives and cutting their expectations. They had a more aggressive growth so it is understandable that they will receive a harsher slump than other companies like
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Investment Vs Speculation
Investment Vs Speculation
$Grab Holdings(GRAB)$ I bought Grab shares yesterday at the high and sold a covered call at 5.5 then when the stock fell took profit, waited for the rebound and sold a deeper call, 5.0 strike because I wanted to hedge my position and lower my venture cost. In total I manged too reduce my cost to 4.77 and with a 3 day strike at 5.0 this is an acceptable capped profit of 0.23. If the stock falls before expiry, then I'm hedged until 4.77 and I shall sell more calls. Here's why I think in the short term I can make a decent profit and that my trade is safe. Options Market Signals Implied Volatility: 104.6% (extremely high), reflecting expectations of sharp price swings. Call/Put Ratio: 7.29 (bullish bias), with heavy call volume at $5.0 and $5.5 strik
$Alphabet(GOOG)$ Bought some Google shares but small position 1. Its the only cloud not dependent on Nvidia: Google Cloud has carved out 11% of the global cloud market, a significant jump from 6% just a few years ago. In 2023, they generated about $33.1 billion in revenue, showing impressive growth and potential. 2. Leader in quantum computing: Google's "Willow" chip might be a quantum leap. It can tackle problems in minutes that would take even supercomputers 10 septillion(what the heck is the number?) years to solve. 3. Search Domination: Google still holds over 90% of the search engine market share worldwide. Every day, billions turn to Google first, last, and always. Perplexity? Not even close. Google's still the king,
$Hershey(HSY)$ (HERSHEY, A GREAT AMERICAN COMPANY) I bought some Hershey because I believe it is a solid long term investment, due to the fact that the company has decent management in a competitive sector, and the stock has been oversold. However Hershey does face quite a few struggles; price volatility, supply chain disruptions, and sustainability concerns. While all these things make such a company a potentially risky investment. I particularly like the way Hershey has gone about handling them 1. Pricing Strategies Incremental Price Increases: Hershey has adjusted product prices to offset rising cocoa costs while balancing consumer demand. Premium Product Offerings: The company has introduced higher-margin premium and specialty choc
$Stellantis NV(STLA)$ My investment strategy is value investing. And ny research showed this company has decent vakue and its stock is severely undervalued. It was sold off due to fear but it can make its steady comeback now that rate cuts have come. Don't plan on taking profit until it goes up a lot more and if it falls I'll just add more.
$GRAB 20250307 4.0 CALL$ so I've been kinds quiet lately because I have been making some bad trades, and didn't want to advertise crappy trades in case anyone watching followed them, however I do want to be transparent and upfront. My return has taken a huge hit mainly because of one of my stocks $Stellantis NV(STLA)$ . I also made a mistake with this Grab call, where I sold too deep and too early, when the stock was only halfway up its recovery, I sold a call at 0.80, when if I had waited a day longer I could have sold at 1.10. It was ITM too so if it had been called away, with my previous option gains I would have just only been break even. So the second I saw
TL;DR: Alphabet is probably the safest high-growth play in the market right now. Megacaps are definitely not value investment but if you want the stability of megacap but the cheapest one on the market, then Google is your best bet. DCF calculations pit it at a a range of 114-221 $Alphabet(GOOG)$ another bloody red day, Google fell a bit lower to 163. And is now in morningstars range of a fair vakue pick. However I think Google could very well go lower amidst all this fear and the DOJ break up. But in the long term its great at generating FCF, doing share buybacks and is the most intuitive software out there, while LLMs like ChatGPT may compete in the search engine game, not many people know how to use them reliably and many still rely on the eas
$TIGR 20250124 7.0 CALL$ Sold a 0dte call on Tiger stock yesterday, whe selling options can rely on a premium strategy, I decided to try trading and rolling same day. Since my TA skills are still quite low. I simply relied on RSI and MACD to time my trades. I sold the call around the second peak of the day, then waited until it fell again to buy back the call and close my trades, taking profit. Now the amount is really small to play with, eventhough my P/L is decent the realised profit is small with a cheap 0dte option. I plan to use these baby steps to slowly build confidence until I have the net assets to start playing more expensive options. @Optionspuppy
$Stellantis NV(STLA)$ My entry price was 15.05, stellantis bought back shares at 13.6 euro after the stock crashed. This tells me that they think 13.6 is a good undervalued price for their company. A company buying back its shares tells us 2 things. 1. They have confidence in their future plans so they want to own more so they can benefit more from their success. 2. The believe this price is below their own valuation for their company so they stand to make a profit either from growth or dividends. While stellantis pays dividends it doesn't have a long history of consistency so it's safe to assume they plan to make their profit from growth. Follow if you want me to post more about defensive investment trades if your the kind of investor who
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