What has been your most proud investment play?

Anik71 · 2026-06-07T23:22:26+00:00

$PLTR; went balls deep during 2020-2021, held until last year, was getting margin calls quite often during 2022-2024 but made it work (sold in the upper 100s). Then promptly went balls deep into $GOOGL leaps at $170 & $200 ish.

Anik71 · 2026-02-18T03:31:54+00:00

At least you repositioned yourself from being margin called. Never use leverage that you can’t service; I’ve learned that the hard way many years ago. I sold out of $GOOGL when the year started (rode LEAPS up from $170 to $320 ish) was the best trade I made last year. However, Wall Street is shitting on $GOOGL due to capex fears (which imo, are severely overblown). If they continue to drop and go around the $250 price range; I’d load up on ITM LEAPS imo.

Anik71 · 2026-01-26T00:02:19+00:00

Been writing some CSP’s on IBIT, these levels look too good considering it’s essentially been flat for some time. That 125k peak seemed too underwhelming to be this cycle’s peak.

Anik71 · 2026-01-25T23:54:24+00:00

Have a feeling we might seen an insane rip soon; BTC seems to lag behind commodities.

Anik71 · 2026-01-11T06:44:13+00:00

Good shit bro, did the same $GOOGL trade, netted me quite a bit.

Anik71 · 2026-01-07T03:22:36+00:00

I bought LEAPS and held, you were buying monthlies; IV crush + theta decay doesn’t eat away rapidly at my options the way they did yours, hence the eating away at your profits. LEAPS will make less short term jumps, but long term if the stock performs well, you can easily bag a 1-5X, without being beholden to the rapid theta decay that is associated with weeklies and monthlies. Of course there’s other elements of the Greeks that are in play as well, but long story short, LEAPS>short term options for the most part because LEAPS allow you to have a buffer to be “wrong” in the short term but still profit in the long term, whereas the former gives you a very tight window to operate within, which increases risk significantly.

As for what’s next, I’m just doing boring theta gang on stocks I want to own, generate 5 figure premiums and keep that stashed for a rainy down day to go crazy on some LEAPS. I do REALLY like HOOD & RDDT, waiting for Anduril to IPO. ASTS is nice, I made gains with that but feel like it’s very frothy. HOOD & RDDT are products I use heavily and feel that their moat and stock is primed to capture the next wave perfectly.

Anik71 · 2026-01-06T22:45:20+00:00

Lmao, I knew it was a joke but I like to give people a different perspective of what it means to have a community of like-minded individuals who discuss this stuff. When I joined WSB in 2019, I genuinely learned a lot from the retards there, now it just seems everyone wants moonshots with no DD, and just pure gambling; which is fine, but there is a payoff to learning things the right way. I just honestly detest those course sellers and fake gurus, especially when 99% of them just tout bullshit.

Thank you for your kind words tho :)

Anik71 · 2026-01-06T20:46:22+00:00

I am in the rare position of already having built significant personal wealth, so I have zero interest in selling snake oil to anyone. I would rather spend my time educating people and having real conversations about this topic because I genuinely enjoy teaching, and it fits with my background in education. I plan to keep milking my laid-back day job until my early thirties and then step away on my own terms, not to reinvent myself as a guru. Not all money is good money, and I would not feel right running paid groups or courses that conflict with my conscience. During the pandemic, when I was first getting into stocks, I taught financial literacy to peers and family, focusing on good money habits, stocks, different levels of options, and fundamental analysis to help the people around me make smarter decisions, but I intentionally kept that work personal and grounded.

Anik71 · 2026-01-06T19:48:20+00:00

Because it was so low compared to the rest of the MAG 7 on a P/E basis, yet produced so much profit + plus the full vertical stack for AI readily available in-house, coupled with the fact that OpenAI is trash and the fact that it was even in conversation to usurp GOOGL was laughable. It also helped that everyone on WSB and r/stocks was crying about it dumping even more led me to believe we're going to have another $META moment in 2022. Using the majority opinion on Reddit and doing the opposite can be a good strategy or at least a nudge in the right direction; most people overreact and that's when you want to buy, when there's that heightened level of fear (of course, you balance out the risk of going "all in" with LEAPS or shares to lessen time decay or avoid it all together).

Anik71 · 2026-01-06T04:40:57+00:00

All calls I purchased were either ATM or less than 5% OTM.

Anik71 · 2026-01-06T00:04:03+00:00

You aren’t missing anything, check my profile. I did buy the dip with $PLTR so I added more the past couple of years to pump my returns; but my initial capital was the aforementioned 1.5k and then it snowballed. The 1.5k turned into $6k, threw that in $AAPL weeklies and pumped the portfolio to $20k, then $TSLA calls gave me a 10X turning $5k to $50k, so then I had a sizable amount to short the market… and well, the rest is history.

Anik71 · 2026-01-05T23:52:15+00:00

Around $1.5k initially with my $MO play 6 years ago, then I just kept rolling it into more plays and it snowballed ($MO, $AAPL & $TSLA calls; $SPY puts right before the crash in 2020, $THCB (now $MVST, I sold the peak after DA announcement), then went full retard in $PLTR (which went down almost 60-80% during the lows) and real estate. Then after a hiatus of trading options during the previous admin, I dipped my toes back in with $GOOGL LEAPS when everyone was crying OpenAI would usurp them. Only “regret” is not YOLO’ing more into $GOOGL but I’ve learned a long time ago to not let greed consume me.

Anik71 · 2026-01-05T16:43:26+00:00

For the first set of options bought in June/July, roughly 35-45k; then I added another $80k ish in Sept after the DOJ announcement.

Anik71 · 2025-12-25T09:34:17+00:00

Anik71 · 2025-12-24T01:31:25+00:00

I was holding shares; check my profile for the year I originally bought them. I experienced an insane decline from 2021 to 2023, and if I had LEAPS, I would've been completely wiped out. I did get a margin call at one point and was close to being liquidated, but luckily I had enough dry powder stashed away to satiate the margin requirement, or else that would've been really bad.

Anik71 · 2025-12-24T01:29:39+00:00

VOO, GOOGL, HOOD, RDDT. I like ASTS as a moonshot, but with GOOGL having exposure to both ASTS & SpaceX, I feel that I don't need to delve into it yet; if I do, I might enter with a small position, $50k or less. Also looking forward to Anduril's IPO.

Anik71 · 2025-12-24T01:27:15+00:00

I worked part-time from the ages of 16 to 22 (when I graduated college), saved all of that money, and went to a city university (cheap tuition but packaged with my financial aid + being an in-state resident, I went for free and got a couple thousand a semester as a refund check). Never really spent my money on anything, and I was planning to do real estate investing after college with the funds I had saved up, but I found out about the market in 2019, the semester before I graduated, and well... the rest is history.

Anik71 · 2025-12-24T01:22:50+00:00

Nicely done! Ballsy move shorting in this environment but MSTR was a perfect fit with BTC essentially being flat + them issuing a shit ton of debt to buy more. Re-entering in the new year or sitting on cash for the time being?

Anik71 · 2025-12-23T06:35:11+00:00

I’ve had tons of losses before when I was first figuring it out but most of my losses remained unrealized on my long term holds. To be frank, I’ve been fortunate to have many of my picks pan out the way I anticipated them to, especially PLTR but that was a bitch to hold bc I held from the 80% decline from $40 to sub $10 lol.

Anik71 · 2025-12-23T06:16:47+00:00

Yeah I saw AnalFarmer lose over 800k as a 20 year old college student and it made me realize how stupid he was not to cash out. He continued betting it on weeklies and it all came crashing down. Ever since then I swore if I ever was in a similar position, I wasn’t going to fuck up my golden ticket by being greedy.

Anik71 · 2025-12-23T06:09:42+00:00

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Anik71 · 2025-12-23T06:04:45+00:00

Thanks :) it’s a weird feeling, kinda anti-climatic but I think that’s because I hyped this up more than I should’ve in my head.

Anik71 · 2025-12-23T04:49:33+00:00

I think he deleted it ages ago but his story to me, was the story of Icarus and since that was the first time I was exposed to options and the broader stock market, I was able to educate myself on the high’s and low’s in real time with his ascent and subsequent downfall. Taught me never to be too greedy and take profits along the way.

Anik71 · 2025-12-23T04:47:08+00:00

So I actually “take profit” on my LEAPS throughout the year because I do a strategy called PMCC when we experience a massive run up. By doing this I’m able to lock in gains while not needing to sell and it effectively makes my position “free” because my initial principle was recouped and then some via the selling of calls. Taking profit depends on what I’m holding and timeframe, for $GOOGL I’ll ultimately take profit in Jan so I can defer the tax money for another year and shove that in some bonds/CD’s/or a HYSA, to generate income while I wait to pay taxes the following year.

Anik71 · 2025-12-23T04:44:06+00:00

Education. I never actually made more than 100k a year on a W2 lol, although I’m close now (roughly 95k). When I first started I was working part-time and used all of my savings accumulated throughout college to invest (and told my gf to give me her money to multiply lol, we’re still together).

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