2025 Recap: Do You Regret Missing These "Easy Trade" Opportunities?
At year-end, let’s review the key investment opportunities from the year based on risk, difficulty, and return.
Did you catch any of them or did they slip through your fingers?
1. Gold Surges 70%, Silver Rushes 170% YTD
Difficulty: ⭐️ Risk: ⭐️⭐️ Return: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gold began 2025 near a low of around $2,600/oz but surged to a fresh high of $4,500/oz by December. Analysts point to inventory depletion, a collapsing gold–silver ratio, and a structural supply deficit as forces underpinning a long-term bull market for silver. $SPDR Gold ETF(GLD)$ $iShares Silver Trust(SLV)$
2. $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ April Low at $86 to $200+ and $5 Trillion Market Cap
Difficulty: ⭐️ Risk: ⭐️⭐️ Return: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Nvidia dropped as low as $86 per share in April 2025, amid market concerns around AI growth and short-term demand. However, the rebound has been extraordinary, with Nvidia soaring past $200 and crossing the $5 trillion market cap milestone. This dramatic rally underscores how quickly Nvidia can recover as long as the AI momentum persists.
3. Chinese Tech Stocks Revaluations: Alibaba and Tencent
Difficulty: ⭐️⭐️ Risk: ⭐️⭐️ Return: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Chinese tech stocks like Alibaba and Tencent have super low valuations. As market has been saying they are undervalued, who is buying? Alibaba starts its revaluation in 2025 with AI (Qwen) and delivery battles. These stocks at their low points in 2025 offered an opportunity to catch a rising tide of Chinese recovery and DeepSeek shock. $Alibaba(BABA)$ $TENCENT(00700)$
4. AMD Finally Catches Up?
Difficulty: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Risk: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Return: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
From $120 at the start of the year to a peak of $240, $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ has finally come close to doubling this year. As the No.2 player in the industry, AMD has long been overshadowed by NVIDIA’s stock performance. But this year, the OpenAI-driven investment cycle has finally pulled AMD into the rally.
Does this suggest that as the AI market continues to expand and capex keeps rising, some share of capacity and demand will inevitably flow to AMD?
5. Tesla’s $200 Support Holds Strong and Then New All-Time High
Difficulty: ⭐️⭐️ Risk: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Return: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ dropped below $200 earlier this year amid sales concerns and competition. However, after stabilizing at this level, the stock is now seeing a rebound as new models and robotaxi plans start to take shape.
Each opportunity has its risk but offers tangible upside with a mix of technical and fundamental catalysts that can drive returns into the final months of 2025.
Which opportunities have you spotted, and which ones are you considering before the year ends?
What other trading opportunities have you missed?
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On the bright side, I’m glad I caught the Tesla rebound. The $200 level held firmly, offering an attractive risk–reward setup, and the recovery reinforced the value of stepping in when sentiment is most negative. It also reminded me how important patience is when a long-term thesis remains intact despite short-term noise.
Overall, the year reminded me that the best opportunities often feel uncomfortable in real time. Going forward, I’ll pay more attention to overlooked themes and secondary beneficiaries, not just the obvious market leaders. At the same time, I’ll stay disciplined on risk, knowing that conviction works best when paired with proper position sizing.
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That is why I have invested in $Vanguard Total World Stock ETF(VT)$ as it gives me exposure to over 8,000 stocks globally from the US, China, Europe and Asia.
When NVIDIA surges, I already own it because it is VT's top holding.
When Tesla hits new highs? I already have a piece of the action.
Even China's Big Tech stocks. They are all part of VT holdings.
In 2025 VT delivered a return of 21.3%.
So while everyone is stressing over their missed trades, I am holding VT. It is the cautious way to own winners without the 2am heart palpitations.
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Which opportunities have you spotted, and which ones are you considering before the year ends?
What other trading opportunities have you missed?
Low risk
Quality megacaps and established AI infrastructure names delivered steady gains. Patience mattered more than precision.
Medium risk
Gold and silver breakouts rewarded disciplined positioning despite sharp volatility.
High risk
AI momentum, leverage, and thematic trades offered large upside but punished poor timing.
Key lesson
The biggest miss was selling winners too early or trading headlines. 2025 favoured conviction in structural trends over constant action.
Maybe I do regret missing out on the gold rally but this is an asset class I do not believe in as they do not have intrinsic growth potential. The rally is largely fear driven and a due to supply and demand. In 2026, I think it is better to invest in asset class I believe in.
I have seized many opportunities this year, and I have also missed many opportunities
The platinum rose up and shook again, it was very sharp. I don't know how to handle it well
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2. $NVIDIA(NVDA)$ is a long term investment hold
3. China repricing moment investments are challenging outside china missed
4. $Advanced Micro Devices(AMD)$ is an earlier stage company hold
5. $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ is an established company hold