My trading/ investing philosophy is that I’m like an insurance agent that picks and chooses which policies I wish to insure. Most common time frame is 28-60 days, occasionally down to 10 days.
If I can continue to develop my intuition I can choose riskier policies to insure. Let’s say there’s a hurricane heading to a city. People without insurance would be desperate to get coverage but no insurance company would touch it even though not every house gets destroyed. What if one could develop their intuition to such a degree that they would somehow know which houses would remain untouched. I’m not there yet but the thought intrigues me.
I do this by selling options. I have better luck selling then buying options. Potential for higher gains with less capital when buying options but that requires intuition to be really dialed in to have long term consistent winnings. The hurricane level risk in regards to buying options is purchasing a short term call contract right before earnings if one has a strong feeling of a stock ripping after earnings. It’s 50/50 as to whether it’s a big gain or max loss.
Have run 12 min of ROW over 2 sessions, on washout now. Considering next cycle of DRG4, ROW, and ASBR/HOM. I think that will be a smooth cycle without getting to deep into recon city. Then work in EOG ST1 the following cycle.
Weekly investing cash flow for week ending Jan 24. $516.17 USD. Forced one through today to get over 500.
Got away with this one. Ended up closing it for a debit of -$7.42 to take the risk off the table the other day. It was a credit spread trade that was getting in trouble. Had a conditional order in place to close it when it got the the upper strike price. Instead it sold 2 more contracts as I made a mistake in setting up the closing order. Decided to let it ride and got away with it. It was a high risk move that I will consider trying again at some point.
Calculated my monthly cash flow for 2024 in CAD using the ratio of 1 USD = 1.44 CAD. Not entirely accurate as the ratio wasn’t 1.44 throughout the year but that’s what it’s been at for awhile.
2024 yearly avg/month: $1226.79 CAD
QTR 1 monthly avg: $1053.27 CAD
QTR 2 monthly avg: $860.16 CAD
QTR 3 monthly avg: $1185.11 CAD
QTR 4 monthly avg: $1808.65 CAD.
Best month was Nov 2024 at $2343.10 CAD. That more than covered my mortgage for the month which is my biggest expense. Didn’t withdraw it to pay for it, nice to know that I could cover it with investing cash flow.
Main sub for QTR’s 1 & 2: Khan. Supporting subs KB and ASBR with short stints of DD and LB.
Main sub for QTR 3: DRR. Supporting subs ASBR and LB.
Main sub for QTR 4: DRG. Supporting subs EmpD/HOM and Minds eye.
QTR 1 2025 January is off to a great start and surpassed last Nov already. Will post the monthly total after Friday.
One could assess the above and say it was DRG that kicked my investing results into high gear. Also enrolled in my 3rd investing course at the start of November. I will say that DRR/DRG eliminated some limiting money beliefs.
EmpD wasn’t the best for overall drive but stacked with DRG and HOM it seemed to increase the urgency of increasing my investment results. Prior to EmpD I was spread to thin trying this and that. Realized I had a profitable side hustle this whole time and that I should narrow my focus to build it up.
Took a 5 week staycation in Nov Dec, during which time I narrowed my focus to methodically work through the investing course as well as a manifestation course through Mind Valley.
Weekly investing cash flow for week ending Jan 31.
$313.63 USD
Monthly investing cash flow for Jan 2025
$2432.70 USD and $24.20 CAD. Total in CAD at 1.44:1 ratio is $3527.28. My best month ever. It’s enough to cover my 14 day Mexico trip this March at a 4 star resort. Didn’t withdraw it but that’s how I’m starting to view it. Its also roughly 50% of my take home pay.
USD/CAD is currently 1.4545 after hours. Spiked today due to incoming tariffs. I anticipate the Mounties to man the border in the coming days once cooler heads prevail and it coming back to 1.44 soon.
In other news I gave my second toastmasters speech on Monday. It went quite well, got a lot of good feedback compared to my first one.
Talked about how Tom Brady used a chip on his shoulder and chose his enemies wisely to experience unprecedented success on the football field and how I can copy his method for myself.
There’s a speech contest next month, I don’t qualify for it as I need to have 6 speeches completed to qualify. Will definitely attend and maybe the next couple rounds to observe the quality of speeches that it takes to make a couple more rounds. It takes 5 or 6 wins to make it to worlds.
Saturday ran 3 min loop of EOG ST1. Anger recon Saturday/Sunday. Also applied for a job that I think I have low probability of getting a call back. Didn’t upgrade my resume either. May try AI to re write my resume and match it to the particular application. Just started using META AI the past couple of days. Asking about stacking various subs, my first dive into AI.
Today/Monday. DRG/ASBR/ROW 4 min each. The anger has passed and joy/optimism is remaining. Don’t care if I get a call back from that job or not, was a recon application haha. Will test out EOG Wednesday again.
USD/CAD spiked to 1.4795 now back to 1.4320 due to a pause of tariffs. For 2025 it’s ranged from 1.43 to 1.45 with the exception of the spike Sunday night. Twice in the last decade I’ve seen it spike to 1.46 excluding the other night. Once in 2016 and again in 2020, both times when oil was low. 1.46 is a solid ceiling for it. Don’t trade forex but have watched that currency pair and oil for a couple decades.
Weekly investing cash flow for week ending feb 7.
Margin: $408.95
TFSA: $421.79.
Total: $830.32 USD.
One of my best weeks. Off to a good start for this month. Key trade of the week: Feb 4 sell 1 PLTR 125 call March 7 contract 31 DTE. 2.5 .1121 commish. $238.79 NC. Stock trading at 104.68. If called away will be $12500 sale from a $1655 investment. My last 100 shares. Also a case of FOMO in that I had 700 shares at one point in the margin acct and sold them 18 months ago at a slight loss for house down payment.
Dumped one of the laggards for a loss and it felt liberating. Already put some of the proceeds to work. It was GOOS, ran out of patience for it to turn around. Avg price was 14, sold for 10. Have better use for the capital then waiting/hoping for rebound. The stock was break even for this year at least, now down to 9.60 the day after.
First 2 listens to EOG ST1 (3 min each) resulted in an emotional release each time that evening (morning loop).
Yesterday played 4 min. Was tired and had the most refreshing dream filled sleep. Held some resentment towards an ex sister in law that I’ve had trouble forgiving. Had a dream that we embraced with emphasis on heart to heart embracing and told her I loved her like a sister. Seems like the air is finally cleared between us.
A rather unconventional result from EOG ST1. Haven’t felt shitty regarding my money situation yet just other stuff coming up.
Weekly investing cash flow for week ending Feb 14 2025.
Margin: $364.97
TFSA: $85.79
Total: $450.76 USD.
Key trade of the week TFSA: OKLO 30 call contract called away. Purchase price 1950.35 on Dec 18 2024. Sold for $2956.91 feb 11. Sold 2 $30 call contracts for 103.79 and 140.79. Profit on shares of 52%. Profit including contracts of 64%.
Have a 45 call expiring on Feb 21 on shares purchased for 26 and change. Currently around 52. Hoping it sells off next week so I can keep the shares. If it’s in the upper 40’s will try to roll it another month.
OKLO is a small nuclear reactor company and a board member just got confirmed as the secretary of energy. There was a lot of luck involved in a trade like this and I like to think intuition played a part.
Just ordered name embedded KB4 and Synergy:Energetic Transcendence in ZPQ. Should be here in time for next cycle starting Feb 25 and to integrate a bit prior to vakay beginning March 10.
Long term plan is to run a couple of customs. A wealth custom of ASBR/HOM and possibly a KB4/EmpD. Subject to change. Will test out the KB/S:ET name embed for awhile. Also want to work through the stages of EOG. Have tip toed into EOG ST1 this cycle. Don’t consider it a full cycle until I’ve done 12 loops, have 4 in so far, will end this cycle at 5. First 2 loops were rough, after that it’s been smoother.
Have swapped out ASBR for KB4 the past couple listening days. Felt the difference while doing magnetic QiGong.
Testing out new name embe KB4/Synergy:Energetic Transcendence today IMG_3223|828x882
So far my Qigong practice felt more intense. Ran it with LOTS and HOM for last day of cycle.
Going to change things up for next couple of cycles. With vacation coming up I don’t want to be in too heavy of recon from running EOG ST1 and ROW simultaneously. Vacay starts March 10. Today is last day of cycle. Going to do 3 day washout instead of 5 then 2 mini cycles.
Next mini cycle 6 listening days:
KB4 S:EnTr name embed
LOTS
EOGST1
Second mini cycle for vacay yet to be determined:
KB4 S:EnTr name embed
LOTS or WB
PR and or DivD
My best lifts this week have been
LB Squat 330x6
Bench press(board press using 2 2x4’s for less shoulder stress) 225x8.
Tempted to order a name embedded ASBR with Synergy:Tale of the dragon.
Also want to try Synergy:Primordial Aura with something. Maybe WB?
Should wait till payday to make another purchase. Should also go through the stages of EOG first. Other name embeds will most likely side track my run of EOG.
Been reading The Hypomanic Edge. Read 100 pages yesterday. The KB/S:EnTr seems to have unlocked enhanced focus.
This is the first draft of a finance custom.
ASBR core
HOM core
Synergy: divine dominion
Synergy: the golden one
Synergy: tale of the dragon
Synergy: Primordial Aura
Deep sleep
Intuition enhancer
Lifeblood fable
Free pass
Weekly investing cash flow for week ending feb 21.
Margin $505.06
TFSA $405.05
Total $910.11 USD.
Key trade of the week:
TFSA roll OKLO 45 Call from feb 21 to March 21 on Feb 19 for $392.58 NC. Turns out it would have expired OTM but didn’t know that Wednesday when I rolled it.
Finished reading The Hypomanic Edge in 2.5 days. Favourite chapters were about Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Carnegie.
Started the next book called The Hidden Power of the 5 Hearts. A book about heart/brain coherence. It’s a smaller book and may take longer to go through as there are exercises in it.
On deck is The Alabaster Girl and The Folly of Fools. Both are 300+ pages of compact writing.
I’m 30 min into a 3.5 hr video on AI by Karpathy. It’s both dry and interesting at the same time. Normally my default speed is 1.25x for YouTube. It’s a bit fast for this one.