📊 16 years turning data into decisions 💰 Made work optional. Investing & wealth building 🤖 Now building with AI 👇 Sharing what I've learned. Follow along 👇
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I quit my cushy tech job after working as a Data Analyst for the past 16 years. I was able to do this, because I spent those years building a solid financial foundation and learnt how to make money work for me, so the job became optional.
I started from almost 0, ten years ago when I moved to the US from India.
If you want to learn how I did it and what I learnt, follow along.
Don’t get so obsessed with collecting option premiums that you miss the bigger opportunity.
When your favorite stocks are falling, selling cash-secured puts can be tempting. And sometimes it makes sense, especially if you’re happy buying at a lower price.
But here’s the tradeoff.
A cash-secured put pays you a premium. If the stock rebounds sharply, that’s generally all you get.
Owning the stock gives you the full upside. A long-dated call (LEAPS) offers leveraged upside, but with the risk of losing your entire premium.
I’ve been using this volatility to buy shares in some companies I like and 2-year LEAPS in others.
I’m not trying to predict the bottom.
I’m positioning for what I think these companies could be worth over the next couple of years.
Don’t just ask how much premium you can collect. Ask what upside you’re willing to give up.
Everyone. Keep calm and take a look at your thesis from when you entered the trade.
If it is still true, perhaps it is time to buy some more at a discount.
Trim your over exposed position.
Weekend is here. Enjoy halloween.
Nov will be better.
Aayush Goenka retweeted
If a red day in the market ruins your entire day, the market owns more of your life than it should.
The last few weeks have been rough. And honestly, nobody knows how much longer the volatility will last.
It's tempting to keep refreshing your portfolio, reading every market prediction, and worrying about what tomorrow might bring.
But none of that changes the market.
If your investments still fit your plan and you don't need to make a decision today, close the app.
Go for a walk. Listen to music. Spend time with people you care about. Work on something you enjoy.
And if the losses are genuinely keeping you up at night, maybe that's worth paying attention to as well. Your portfolio might be taking more risk than you're comfortable with.
Markets will do what markets do.
You still get to decide how much of your day they consume.
Take care of yourself. The portfolio can wait.
If a red day in the market ruins your entire day, the market owns more of your life than it should.
The last few weeks have been rough. And honestly, nobody knows how much longer the volatility will last.
It's tempting to keep refreshing your portfolio, reading every market prediction, and worrying about what tomorrow might bring.
But none of that changes the market.
If your investments still fit your plan and you don't need to make a decision today, close the app.
Go for a walk. Listen to music. Spend time with people you care about. Work on something you enjoy.
And if the losses are genuinely keeping you up at night, maybe that's worth paying attention to as well. Your portfolio might be taking more risk than you're comfortable with.
Markets will do what markets do.
You still get to decide how much of your day they consume.
Take care of yourself. The portfolio can wait.
Aayush Goenka retweeted
This market is so pathetic it's embarrassing. We are in the earliest days of AI. Every use case you've implemented personally in the last year I guarantee you large enterprises have made 0.1% the progress due to their bloat and bureaucracy. Let that sink in.
Aayush Goenka retweeted
Great day to be a long term investor with conviction and an appetite for opportunity. $AMZN
oh $AMZN
The fastest way to turn a winning trade into a losing one?
Fall in love with it.
I sold all my $META call LEAPS when the stock was trading around $720–$750 a few weeks ago.
Then watched it climb to $780.
Did I regret selling? Of course. Nobody likes watching a stock run without them.
But look where it is now (~$612).
I didn't catch the top. Not even close.
What I did do was stick to the exit plan I'd made before entering the trade.
I've learned this lesson enough times: the moment I start moving my profit target because "there's more upside," I'm no longer following my strategy. I'm negotiating with my emotions.
You don't have to catch the top to win. You just have to know when you've won.
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