Who is into trading and investing?

coopreme said:
Ya, so if you sell a call and a put out of the money against a single underlying you make money. If that ticker stays flat the value of the option you sold decays each day, and if volatility decreases then the value goes down as well. So then after x days you close the trade by buying back call and put for less than u paid or rolling out to the next date for another premium injection. Flat market, get paid.
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where did you guys learn options trading?
 
Heavy investor; day to day trader at times when the market allows.

Recently trading Amazon... I rode Amazon all the way up from the bottom of the latest crash, selling each day to re-bound peak. Maybe like a 40% return, avg 0.5-1% per day. I thought they would rocket @ latest high after earnings, and then 7% loss overnight even after stellar earnings over some AI investor fear. Wiped away a lot of $$$$$ temp. But the market is interesting if you have ZERO emotion. I could have sold b/c a fear of further dropping, but I held. It's Amazon, look at the history, growth, earnings, trajectory, diversification, AWS, etc. etc. Now we're back. 0% loss as of yesterday. I'll turn another 1% on that figure and jump back out and then back in as the market dips and peaks. On a side note: I personally need to start using stop losses @ 2% for these bigger dip moments.

I don't know anything about trading options, etc. Struggling to learn even if it's easy. Seems like day trading for 0.5-1% gains per stock, per day is my jam. Long term is great too, but I want those sweet compound interest gains to stack.

Also:

You only lose money on the stock market when you SELL b/c you're being a wuss and let emotions control you. And 2: When you buy trash companies without doing due-diligence. The market is VERY forgiving even when you pick the wrong picks; so long as you're not investing in HYPE or insane P/Es or very overpriced stocks. Time heals almost all; things recover, but 99% of people have no patience.
 
This market is different, bought Amazon down 11% in 30 days, holding... Sell at 8% gain on top of low spot. Not bad.

Was in nuclear for a bit. 16% gain in 7 days, then now negative 6%.

I guess the point is GTFO when you're up in this market; it's day to day emotions that are HIGHLY irrational and no one is following metrics anymore, it's all feels, greed and feels.
 
Was hoping for a market correction, which it did for a brief second.

Then was expecting a slight jump up in SP 500, which it did.

The only question now is will it drop deep down or just keep rising? I will give it 7 days before making a choice to invest back in or enjoy seeing the decline to buy deep at the bottom.

Like we're at a point, where all things factored in, if the market doesn't get crushed, it's going to irrationally melt up until the powers that be, randomly step in and say yeah, that's enough, drop it.
 
I dont much trading, but I do invest.

Largely just weekly purchases of SP500 of a set $ amount.

But then I have a huge lump sitting in just cash at the brokerage too, for when the SP500 dips down more than X% and I might take 1/5th of the cash and buy SP500. I do this in a tiered strategy so I can ride waves down at certain % of my cash and hold and ride back up and sell and convert back into cash when it comes up.

What I buy weekly though stays in SP500 and never cashes out.
 
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