$RKLB 20260116 2.0 CALL$ Ok so this was the very first options trade I wrote, over a month ago. As you can see I went long, jan 2026, and paid $2.50 for a $2 Right to buy. I have a huge amount of confidence in rocket lab going forward and my intention for this call is to hold it and excise it. Well that was my original intention. But woot, it's now officially in the money today. I'm clearly a bunny when it comes to options. And loving the comments I get from you guys that help me to expand my knowledge. I'm thinking and have actually since this first option trade... looked to cheaper and shorter term trades, but I'm pleased to see the first one, and actually all of my calls so far being in positive territory now. But this trade

Yes I'll be looking to buy more, but not the stock more likely calls. The other item that has come to my attention is that nvidias new AI chips are apparently very very greedy on power, so maybe another long term play is power stocks. Look at where data centres are concentrated and buy into power companies that support those areas. This is going to take some research but I think it's worth it. @Tiger_chat @TigerPM @Daily_Discussion @TigerPicks 

So, i believe the biggest issue fundamental investors have is the information they rely on. Often, more often than you think, it's actually wrong, or sometimes it's just calculated in a way you didn't realise. I will use two cases to illustrate, from one investor class... the dividend investor. I look at data every day, and dividend investors are looking for consistent and growing company dividend over time. Personally I want a dividend stock to be doing both. At least once a week, information about the stock I invest in is actually wrong. #arcc last week for eg on one site told me it paid a dividend of only 3 cents per share during 2 quarters of last year, totally wrong. Checking other sources quickly confirmed it to be totally wrong. Moral of the story... don't trust one source of data,

So to answer the question re tariff wars between USA and China, id like to do a wee technique used in strategic management called scenario planning, here goes: China will return fire on the new 104% tariff imposed by America, talks will break down and tariffs will continue to escalate to insane levels... 200%, 400%, heck it doesn't matter. Tariffs Will become a moot point, essentially China and America will halt all trade. China has a competitive advantage now, because the USA has blanket tariffs on the rest of the world and China doesn't, the latter will build stronger trade relations with the rest of the world. Canada is a obvious choice here, and its already happening with oil and gas. While the White House will continue with its ill conceived tariff plan (heck the gdp calculations they

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ thinking long term, rather than short term 

$S&P 500(.SPX)$ Ok l lets cut to the chase. Trump's "tariffs" are total horse nuggets! He got someone to use chat gp to figure it out obviously but clearly the illiterate person who did it questioned chat gp badly, garbage in, garbage out. For a start one of the country's on the list has a population of zero, another is a tiny attol with nothing but a US army base on it, another 2 are not actually countries. Then theres the tariff calcs, totally wrong: for example New Zealand and Australian tariffs on the USA are actually under 2% not 20%. 20% is actually the trade deficit. So would you expect a country of 6 mil people like nz to buy as much as a country of 300 mil people? Its nonsense. But its his business strategy as outlined in a book of hi

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ BUY THE DIP! what amuses me the most is market commentators, aka the sheep of Wall Street. Don't get me wrong there are many people that are intelligent and write well reasoned and researched articles. Problem is, you have to dig through a mountain of horse nuggets to find one gold nugget. There is a huge amount of click bait out there atm saying the market is about to crash. And just as many commentators saying it's the dip buy the dip, you will be a millionaire if you buy now. So who is right and who is wrong? Neither side is the correct answer. For a start, if your portfolio is down 30% over the last four months, as a retail investor you gotta say, I have no cash left to buy the dip.  It's all just short term thinking

Ok so here's the thing, that few people are talking about, well they are. But saying costs for American consumers will go up, isn't really helpful, so let me break it down. First the easy one... coffee. America can't grow coffee it's just not possible to grow coffee there. So if America imposes say 25% tariffs on brasil for eg, guess what? Your $Starbucks(SBUX)$ coffee goes from $5 to $6.25, if you usually drink 5 cups a week as an American consumer that's going to cost you $6.25 extra every week. Going forward, you will be paying around 300 bucks more a year... just to get a week day coffee fix. Yes I'm oversimplifying, but that's just a cup of coffee people! Start looking at everything else That the USA can't physically produce due to climate, t

$Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$ If only i had more money to invest! When i started using tiger trade a year ago i began with some trades in the demo account to get the hang of the tiger platform. Out of the $100,000 Monopoly money tiger gives you i put $7,000 into rocket lab. Even though its dropped more than $10 per share from highs, that single holding is worth a wee bit more in a year. Dam i wish i had more money to invest. the total portfolio is now worth over $400,000. At one point it surpassed $600,000. This is actually sobering. The more you have on the table the larger the dollar value movement.  This year will be a rocky ride for sure, while my real portfolio was small, its now significantly bigger. At first, it wasn't hard to deal with

Funny thing at the moment is the market is obsessed with macros, trump and musk. Rightfully so, but they are sooo obsessed that they seem to be ignoring very positive news from smaller caps like $Venture Global, Inc.(VG)$, $Redwire Corp.(RDW)$ and $Archer Aviation Inc.(ACHR)$ To name a few. All have dropped significantly in price but are all announcing significant positive growth initiatives that will impact profits positively going forward.  I've always made my best investment decisions following the unfollowed. Often it takes months for the market to react. But eventually they do when quarterly reports come in and the market is totally surprised. It's amusing

$Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$ Ok so this common misconception that insiders selling is universally a bad thing really needs to be put into perspective. $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$  yep insiders know what's coming, it's not pretty. So they are dumping, the headwinds are massive. I herd that elons stock is tied up with lawsuits so he can't sell, but just rumours. But it sounds reasonable, I bet he would be selling if he could. Cause Tesla is cannon fodder in my humble opinion. But palantir faces no headwinds, just huge tailwinds. Yes it's dam expensive. Insiders sell mainly because most of their salaries are in stock based compensation, so they need to sell, not because they want to. Everyone has bills t

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ ok I almost shorted it last week. Let's face facts, BYD has a better electric vehicle. Arguably so does Toyota, VW, and a hoast of other car companies.  But wait you say, Tesla's high share price is not about cars, it's about FSD, robotaxies and robots. While Elon has promised self driving and robotaxies since 2014, and is yet to deliver anything. Others are way ahead, and have better tech. And the robots? They can't do shite. Picking up a cup and putting it into a basket... walking very poorly. A three year old can put a circle into the circle hole. A square into a square hole etc. they can walk way better, actually most can run. And general dynamics has a robot that can do handstands, cartwheels, and it walks and runs l

First up, the market has NOT collapsed, just corrected so far. So will it rebound? Yes and no. I think this year will b very volatile. In the shOrt term trumps madness will continue to create heightened volatility. But less as the market adjusts to the madness... the new normal. For me volatility represents opportunity. Last year I brought, and kept buying. This year ill buy and sell, growth stocks, and buy dividend stocks going cheap. Longer term, trump has aready done the damage and it will take years to fix. US defense stocks for example i believe will suffer. So too will most manufacturing companies. American products will be more expensive, and while they were just better than say Chinese products in the past, china now makes much higher quality products way cheaper. The American

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ Ok ill try to be more constructive on tesla today. If you know me im a tesla bear. Elon tried to pump the stock with his new car sales yard open for business, formally called "the whitehouse". And of course his new head of car sales... Donald Trump. But to be fair if Elon contributed reportably $300 mil to my coffers, I'd ignore USA presidential potential interest conflicts and tell everyone how great Elon is and how amazing tesla cars are too. even though im on record saying electric cars are shite, oh the irony! Then in other Elon news, well hes going to double tesla production, super stuff. But wait, tesla sales are tanking, due to Things elon is doing predominantly. Plus competition is taking serious market share from

Ok today im going to talk about two stocks everone knows $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ And $Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$ They are very similar in two ways. First both have extremely loyal retail investor fan boys and girls. And both are down significantly in the last several months. Tesla down about 50%, palantir down about 30%.  From my perspective, both were way too expensive at their perspective highs, and remain way to expensive. But lets dive into that. Palantir first. Its expensive because investors see the exponential growth potential and are pricing that in. In the last few days, this has born fruit. with contracts and partnerships with $Archer Aviation Inc.

So I've been picking up $Venture Global, Inc.(VG)$ And $Redwire Corp.(RDW)$ And $Archer Aviation Inc.(ACHR)$ Plus options in $Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$. So yes im bottom feeding, picking up growth stocks at prices I consider bargains. But are they bargains? Well to answer this question you need to understand risk versus volatility. Risk is the extent to which you buy what you believe is a great stock at a decent price and it doesn't deliver. So it goes down because its fundamentals change and its no longer a great stock to own. But if the fundamentals remain unchanged, growth in revenue going forward, profits etc all rema

$Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$ so everyone. If you have followed me for a while you know im in unconditional love with rocket lab. But i have done the unthinkable. I sold half my position but i did two other things. First though, why did i sell half my position. Well since January its been extremely volatile, highs above $32, lows in the $15 range. Because it represents way over 50% of my portfolio, well im getting emails on a daily basis telling Me a margin call is impending. Got as low as 4% liquidity! Nuts!!! So i halved my position to remove all margin. I sold out at around $20. Yep it was over $32 at one point so i realized a sad profit, but dont feel sorry just yet. My average buy price was $4.32, so i realized over $12,000. Could have been $2

$Venture Global, Inc.(VG)$ just posted on this company everyone, id be really interested in your thoughts. Look up my post just prior to this one

【Voting Post】$Venture Global, Inc.(VG)$ Ok so i have been doing research on this company for a bit now and pulled the trigger this past week. Brought 10 shares in the $9 range, so im hardly going all in. For me its a five year plus investment. So the company liquifies natural gas and exports it. Crazy move investing in that atm i bet you are all thinking with Trumps tariff wars potentially screwing all VG's profits in the short term. Especially as it looks like VG will mainly export to the EU. But LNG is a commodity and as such can be Hedged. But in the short term VG got their first plant fully operational in December 2024 and will have the second fully operational in Q1 2025. So there will be a significant revenue boost in Q1 and also a significant reduction in

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ "in the long run, everything will get better" really? Was today a dead cat bounce after Elon used the Whitehouse as a car sales yard. And president Trump as an "enthusiastic" car salesman. Crap if you don't like something you don't take it for a test drive, and he didn't. Then Elon started more false promises saying the new driverless Car is "close" and has no steering wheel or pedals. First time I've heard that, has he mentioned that to the production line, cause I don't see them in production. So my third condition for the total destruction of Tesla stockholder value is now in play. That is, Elon is trying to pump the stock yet again with promises that border on lies, because they are not realistic. Meanwhile orders for Tesl

$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ i think the tesla hate will continue to gain momentum. Sales will continue to plummet over the next few months. Am i selling puts? No. Because true zealots are still holding out for self driving and robots.  For me there are just too many balls in the air. I believe the stock is seriously overvalued and now has massive headwinds. But to many have invested too much to let it go down. Personally, I would not buy it at $40 per share. Nor would i buy ford or any other US vehicle manufacturer. Trump has blatantly lied about the impact of tariffs on the US economy. China, canada and mexico don't pay, US consumers pay.  Yes the American economy is massive, and other countries could replace supply, but would they even consid