To The Moon

Profited $11321 for the trading week of 21st to 25th July 2025.

Let’s find out which of my trades works and which trades were pulling me down.

Summary Read:

Made $11321 ($4364 from stocks and $6956 from option trades) in work week #30 2025. Overall, a good harvest week with many trades swing to my favour.

Of the 50 counters with open trades, 34 counters were profitable and 16 were unprofitable. The top most profitable trades and unprofitable trades showcased in snapshots below.

No major changes in my trading strategy for coming week and portfolio is gaining steadily. Stay bullish and greedy when the market tells me so.

At the same time, keep an eye and foot on the exit by holding sufficient short hedge in overbought stocks, volatility hedge through VXX and GDX.

Key trades that were up or down by $1000 or more will be highlighted in below segments.

Readers can refer to all trades and comments on my actual Trade Feeds for more specific trading opinion at the point of those trade entries.

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Most Profitable Trades

For the top most profitable trades, they ranged from $464 to $3867.

Most Unprofitable Trades

For the top most unprofitable trades, they ranged from -$47 to -$2243.

1. MicroStrategy Incorporated (MSTR) $Strategy(MSTR)$

MSTR Daily Chart

Profitable Trades:

Made $3867 from MSTR being my most profitable trade from last week.

Open Positions:

• Short 200 shares at average of $400

• 2 cash secured puts with same strike price of $400 expiring on 25th July and 1st Aug.

What Works:

Cash were fully secured to purchase back the shares buyback at breakeven cost if MSTR comes back to $400 or below.

I was holding paper loss on the short 200 shares when MSTR went as high as $457.22 on 16th July and now it closes at $405.89 on 25th July.

The short puts also worked in my favour as the expiring 25th July strike $400 was not hit so it ended up worthless and I get to collect all the premiums.

Possible Trade Actions in coming Days/Weeks:

I think MSTR are near support zones at $400 so I will sell new cash secured puts with strike at $400.

The goal was to net off the short trades in case MSTR exploded to the upside when BTC price breaks out.

BTC is forming a bull flag for the 3 week and might look set to break out even higher should the right condition arises.

MSTR looks weak after losing ground, down 2.61% and 4.09% for the past 2 weeks despite that BTC was trading flat for the same 2 weeks.

2. Super Micro Computer Inc. $SUPER MICRO COMPUTER INC(SMCI)$

SMCI Daily Chart

Profitable Trades:

Made $2306 from SMCI being my 2nd most profitable trade from last week.

Open Positions:

• Long 1470 shares at average cost of $67.

• 18 short calls expiring between 1st Aug to 22nd Aug with strikes at $50, $55 and $60.

What Works:

General bullishness on SMCI with tailwind on the semiconductor and AI chats pushing stocks like NVDIA to all time high.

The large long position I had was still in paper loss, but it had come back up a long way from its bottom of $17.25 made on 15th Nov 2024 when its accounting scandal and hedge fund short attacks were ongoing.

SMCI now however is up for the 8th continuous week to close at $54.47 and look set to continue trend higher alongside major bullishness in the AI plays even though some recent semiconductor companies were down after reporting on the sell the news scenarios.

Possible Trade Actions in coming Days/Weeks:

• Continue roll up and further out on the coming covered calls if they were in the money near closing. Continue to ride the general bullishness of the sector.

• If the calls were out of money, let them expire to reduce my total positions back to 15 contracts.

3. RobinHood (HOOD) $Robinhood(HOOD)$

HOOD Daily Chart

Profitable Trades:

Made $2200 from HOOD being my 3rd most profitable trade from last week.

Open Positions:

• 4 short calls with strike at $87 expiring on 1st Aug.

What Works:

HOOD was down 4.46% for the week and closed at $104.85.

BTC was actually up for the week but I guess the price action of HOOD was really overbought after continually rising for 11 straight weeks before the turn around last week after forming all time high at $113.44 and then doji candle on 18th July.

These trades are most likely a losing trade eventually, so I’m looking for a possible exit at lower levels if possible.

Possible Trade Actions in coming Days/Weeks:

• Look for possible exit at support levels to cut loss.

• Continue to roll short call further out if observe general weakness on chart movement, if hit key resistance, then decide to exit and cut loss.

4. S&P 500 Volatility Futures (VXX) $iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN(VXX)$

VXX Daily Chart

Unprofitable trades:

Lost -$2243 from VXX being my most unprofitable trade from last week.

Open Positions:

• Long 800 shares at average of $49.

• 4 short puts positions at $45 and $42 expiring on 1st Aug and 8th Aug.

• 5 short call positions with strike between $50 to $55 expiring between 1st Aug to 15th Aug.

What Didn’t Work:

VXX was my short hedge bets against market meltdown which initially would be a probable event when US tariffs pause ends on 9th July. It was then extended to 1st Aug.

Based on over the weekend news that US and EU had agreed on tariffs at 15% and futures are trading higher ahead of Monday market opens, I think VXX will continue to fall and remained at low levels until another key volatility events occurs.

Bet against TACO and lose out [Cry]

Possible Trade Actions in coming Days/Weeks:

• Decide to whether take up the remaining 4 contracts sold puts assignment when they are due. At full assignment, I will hold 1200 shares of VXX and it’s a decaying asset.

• Sell 3 more short calls this week to match up my long shares holding to capture some premiums to reduce decay losses.

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