All in TSLA IRA and HSA accounts are up 4% on the year vs. $TSLA down 9%. These are better results, much better than the brokerage which wasn’t hedged as much.
I’ll do the brokerage update tomorrow or Saturday.
I’m guessing the brokerage will be down 2-5% ytd.
Just got scammed at a Mexican gas station. I like a good scam.
No credit card machine working... Right.
960 pesos for 1/4 tank. Right.
Well, they got my cash and we left. Two minutes later we were like, “that isn’t adding up.”
They got us good.
Traders story: how it started and how I got to where I am today with $tsla.
Wild story how this all played out.
@Jed_Bratt
I never traded options until my account crossed $2 million. Never paper traded either. Everything changes when it’s real money anyway. Not my personality wasting time on fake games or trades. I can see the benefit but not something I was interested in.
Flash back to late 2019. Fresh off a divorce, I get a $200k settlement check. I’m six months single and just starting to date my now wife. Corporate sales are on fire 125k base plus 20 - 40k quarterly commissions. Cashflow is strong.
Total investable money hits around $350k. I start moving cash from checking into Fidelity.
On a golf trip one guy is killing it swing trading so I jump into NIO FCEL and a couple other. $be was one funny enough but I could buy more FCEL shares so I bought it.
I fall in love with FCEL. Keep buying 1k then 10k at a time until I’m holding 50k shares by year end. Covid hits March 2020, I sell everything else and go all in 150k shares at under $1.25. No options just conviction on the new CEO bonus and green energy.
Corporate commissions keep rising so every extra dollar goes into $FCEL. Biden wins late 2020 green energy squeezes. I sell my initial $400k at breakeven and let the rest ride. Late December I cross seven figures then mid January I hit $2 million.
That’s when I started researching FIRE on YouTube and come across covered calls.
My wife was in a masters program taking a derivatives course and her dad had her selling calls as a teenager. I started selling covered calls on FCEL exited the rest 15 23 from a 1.88 cost basis and the account sat at $2.6 million.
Moved into dividend kings but premiums sucked. Then mid 2021, I go heavy into $TSLA. The premiums blew my mind. I pulled $800k in gains and premium by end of year.
Figured I could make 10 - 20k a month consistently. After a sailing trip I submitted my resignation and retired at 33 right at the market peak.
I knew sequence of return risk was the killer so I stayed 100 percent cash selling puts 20 percent out on $TSLA. Super relaxed making steady income. Then bought the 2022 dip hard all the way down to $150. Took the 55 percent drawdown gut punch but recovered strong.
Since then it’s been the same cycle. Big drops, recover, trim and regroup. Each year I get better.
That’s the real journey, no fluff. From zero options knowledge to where I am now 5 years later. I’ve done it all during this period. You name it, Ive done it. Some success and lots of failures. More 50% drawdowns anyone should ever experience in 5 years. I’ve had a lifetime of them crammed into these years.
Now I’m dialed into what works for me and I do my best to focus on that. Ultimately the underlying has to come though.
I’ve picked my horse and riding it out until I’m satisfied.
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Question for you @grok What percentage of the time does $TSLA close hear the lower range of the trade day range versus the high of day range.
For example, trading range of 372-384. Based on the data you have access to, can you tell me historically where the typical close occurs. Lower, mid or upper part of the daily range? @grok
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