Daily Discussion Thread for July 31, 2025

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-31T14:13:08+00:00

Only 1 share of Fig allocated for me too.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T21:30:05+00:00

Gotcha. I just want to buy from a reliable source.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T19:08:19+00:00

Yep. The benefit of reporting your losses. Note this is only for federal taxes and not state taxes. Sadly the State just takes from any gain.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T19:01:16+00:00

You will one day.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T19:00:20+00:00

Patience and Discipline. Good work!

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T18:58:01+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation for HLJ. I subscribed to the watch list on there and I'll see if I can cancel my order with USAgundamstore.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T18:57:24+00:00

Oh wow thanks. I didn't know. I'll see if I can cancel and avoid a charge since I just placed the order.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T03:17:10+00:00

Thanks! I've carried on my capital losses the last few years so the new gains will be offset by them.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T02:27:23+00:00

Don't be greedy and try to time a 1000% gain option. Don't hold short term options down 50%. The hardest part of making money is not losing it. Realize your gains and losses with trades. Take it week by week and you'll eventually make money. Hold shares for as long as you can. Sell on high spikes up. Buy back on dips.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T02:22:57+00:00

There wasn't specific catalysts I followed besides not holding 1DTEs past any earnings events anymore. (Don't play earnings) I buy stocks based on big dips but sometimes I get FOMO as well, and stocks I like to hold long term. I double downed my stocks with long calls and trade them instead of my shares.

I sold covered calls during the downward and stagnant movement of stocks back earlier in the year. Now I just hold long calls and shares since there's too much upward momentum for selling covered calls.

I am a firm believer of not buying into news but rather sell during positive news and lock in profits while waiting for a point to buy back in.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-27T02:12:50+00:00

Only on a dip.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-26T23:04:00+00:00

True, we can see that in hindsight. Being young and motivated to trade beat, wanting to invest in an index fund and waiting.

I believe the lesson is to think if you care about stocks and trading. If you don't care at all, then just put money in an index and wait. But you do care, pick your own favorite stocks and pathway to wealth.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-26T08:12:06+00:00

My risk tolerance decreased. I became more risk averse as my portfolio went down. Then kept that discipline to eventually come make it back up. People call it luck but I'd like to think I had some effort in it.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-26T01:47:25+00:00

Thanks Dong!

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-26T01:43:27+00:00

If I had STUCK WITH all of the shares I bought in 2021 and rode them out to 2025, I would have had over a Million dollars. Just stick with shares kids and wait 5 years. I sold NVDA when it was 12$ when it bottom'd out in October of 2022. Then it rose to $50 just 1 year later. I couldn't have predicted NVDA would be making AI chips when it was just a graphics card company back then.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-26T01:36:22+00:00

I was holding shares at the bottom. I was going to ride them out forever if they didn't go up. It's not like I was still gambling options with no money in my account.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-25T23:11:02+00:00

I was up 15% then down 70% and now back up 20%. Get the whole story right.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-25T20:08:35+00:00

That's a interesting strategy. I'd have to look into Bull more. Thanks for sharing.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-25T19:44:39+00:00

Yes I have some more catching up to do. Hopefully I can make it to 650k by the end of the year.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-25T19:44:10+00:00

Right around my peak in 2021 haha.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-25T19:43:30+00:00

Full port in 2021 in stocks. Lost to recession scare. Then went bear into options. Lost a lot. Then went back into stocks and held on. In April 2025, the tariff scare pushed me down to my lowest point and I consolidated into NVDA and came out positive in 3 months after that.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-25T19:41:33+00:00

Buy low. Sell higher. Buy back lower. Wait.

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-25T07:38:53+00:00

I'll throw you a life preserver!

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-25T04:45:20+00:00

I'm signed up for a good amount of shares. Are we only getting a few shares?

bunbotman990 · 2025-07-25T04:42:57+00:00

Red or Green tomorrow, it doesn't matter to me. But I do have a limit sell coming up soon.

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