To The Moon

Profited $15.6k for the trading week of 28th July to 1st Aug 2025.

Top 5 Individual Ranked Trader and Top 5 Team in Tiger’s Trade to Win Challenge. Let’s find out which of my trades worked and which trades didn’t.

Summary Read:

Made $19.3k from stocks and lost $3.7k from option trades. Overall, another good harvest week with many trades swing to my favour.

Market sold down late on Fri 1st Aug mostly likely attributed to poor Non-Farm Payroll numbers and broad-based US tariffs took effect. As the result, many of my short trades like on RCL, VXX, MSTR, HOOD and TSLA turned profitable for the week.

Of the 49 counters with open trades, 19 counters were profitable and 30 were unprofitable. Many of the long trades were unprofitable matching market movement. 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 still 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 and volatility hedge through VXX, GDX and QID.

Top 4 (3 profitable, 1 unprofitable) trades that contributed to my trade performance will be highlighted in below segments.

Readers can refer to all other trades and comments on my actual Trade Feeds for more detailed analysis.

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WW#31 Top 10 Profitable Trades

Most Profitable Trades

For the top 10 most profitable trades, the profits ranged from $12231 to $458.

WW#31 Top 10 Unprofitable Trades

Most Unprofitable Trades

For the top 10 most unprofitable trades, the losses ranged from $2860 to $205.

Ranked Top 5 in Elite League Individual Ranking WW#31

Climbed to Top 5 in individual ranking and actually also Top 5 in team ranking as well.

1. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. $Royal Caribbean Cruises(RCL)$

RCL Daily Chart

Profitable Trades:

Made $12231 from RCL being my most profitable trade from WW #31.

Open Positions:

• Short 325 shares at average of $253.

• 3 cash secured puts with strike price of $300 and $290 expiring on 8th, 15th and 22nd Aug.

What Works:

RCL was down $10.93% for the week after earning released on 29th July where the company beat on earnings but missed revenue target. This is coupled with weaker forecast for Q3 2025.

I’m still holding paper loss on the short 325 shares and the recent fall helps reduce this loss.

The short puts also worked in my favour as despite the fall in share price, non of them were exercised and I also get to sell a new put with strike of $290 to continue collect more premium while waiting for price to break lower.

Possible Trade Actions in coming Days/Weeks:

• Manage the 3 open short put trade on their expiry, roll if in the money. else let it lapse and sell new ones.

• The longer term goal was to net off the short trades and buy back all stocks at breakeven or lower.

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

VXX Daily Chart

Made $2897 from VXX being my 2nd most profitable trade from WW #31.

Open Positions:

• Long 800 shares at average of $49

• 2 short puts with strike at $42 expiring on 8th Aug

• 8 covered calls with strike at $50, $52 and $55 expiring on 8th, 15th and 22nd Aug

• 6 short calls with strike at $50 and $55 expiring on 22nd, 29th Aug and 5th Sept

What Works:

VXX were up 8.46% for the week and spiked to $46.97 on Fri 1st Aug only yo close at $45.91 for the week. This enabled the premium collection on both the sold puts and sold calls for profits.

The underlying long shares position drove the most gains as it recovered a portion of its value even thought the breakeven cost is at $49.

VXX act as my bearish market position hedge and I was ready to accumulate up to 1000 shares before paring down my exposure so I’m nearly at full exposure.

Looking at volatility spike situation for me the chance to offload my holdings hopefully for profit.

Possible Trade Actions in coming Days/Weeks:

• Manage the expiring short puts, roll or sell new ones depending on market price actions.

• Maintaining full exposure limit of 1000 shares.

• Sell covered calls at holding cost of $49 or higher and if in the money, let them get exercised and recover capital.

3. Strategy $Strategy(MSTR)$

MSTR Daily Chart

Profitable Trades:

Made $2435 from MSTR being my 3rd most profitable trade from WW #31.

Open Positions:

• Short 100 shares at average of $400

• 1 cash secured puts with same strike price of $400 expiring on 8th 1st Aug.

What Works:

Another week of profitable trade on MSTR after also gaining in WW #30 based on planned trade actions.

The short positions were profitable with -200 shares at $400 and 2 short puts with strike at $400 expiring on 1st Aug and 8th Aug.

As MSTR closed last week at $366.63, 100 shares were bought back at $400 and I get to collect all the premiums from the expired short put.

Would have been more profitable if I hold the net short shares just buy back at $366, but then leading into the weak, no one knows how high or low the BTC and MSTR will trade so the information is only hindsight and not useable.

Possible Trade Actions in coming Days/Weeks:

• Maintain current open position as is. If MSTR didn’t break above $400 by end of week, then the 2 open trades will cancel out each other and be profitable.

• If MSTR goes above $400, then sell new put at $400 to repeat trade.

• Decide to cut loss if BTC breaks above $125k.

The goal was to net off the short trades in case MSTR exploded to the upside if BTC price breaks out above $125k.

BTC broke down further from it’s bear flag and $116k support thought it’s retracing back to the lower side on the range. As it stands, I’m bearish bias with BTC maybe testing $110k support.

4. UnitedHealth Group Inc. $UnitedHealth(UNH)$

UNH Daily Chart

Unprofitable Trade:

Lost $2860 from UNH being my most unprofitable trade from WW #31.

Open Positions:

• 2 long dated calls with strikes at $300

• 2 short calls with strike at $260 and $265 expiring on 15th and 22nd Aug.

What Didn’t Work:

UNH broke down for the 3rd round when it issued a profit warning 1 weeks before it’s expected 29th July earning release. It met it’s revenue target but missed earnings by 8.32%.

As the results, UNH broke down further and is trading at the $240 range so both my long dated calls suffered premium losses.

The silver lining was if I were to hold long shares, I would have suffered even greater losses at similar exposure. For now, the losses were limited to only the premiums paid and is also being slowly recover by selling short calls.

Possible Trade Actions in coming Days/Weeks:

• Continue rolling short calls further out if they are expiring in the money.

• If they are out of money, sell new calls to continue collect premium till long calls expiry.

• Add new positions at current level to average down and bet on UNH recovery story and value play.

Other profitable trades not featured here, refer to me trade feeds for details:

$Robinhood(HOOD)$ $SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$

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