2023 Trading Recap – $11,000 in profit!

2023 trading recap

As 2024 draws to a close, I wanted to recap 2023’s results, so that when I close off the trading books for 2024, I can easily and quickly have a YoY comparison. I restarted my trading journey in July 2023, with a funding deposit of $4,000. In those 6 months, I made a total of … Read more

CFD Trading with CMC Markets – Dec 2023

CFD Trading Dec 2023

As I shared in my previous trading summary post, I wanted to leverage the Bitcoin ETF hype and focus all my trading energy on RIOT Platforms. So I did. Here are the results: Realised P&L was $7,174.02. After deducting fees and holding costs, net profit was $6,373.19. With the exception of 1 trade on Meta, … Read more

Can’t stop! Won’t stop! Gamestop!

can't stop gamestop

Phooo… you’re gonna want to strap in for this one. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would have heard of the turmoil in Wallstreet, getting their asses handed over to them for extreme naked shorts on video game retailer Gamestop, by a ragtag group of retail investors in Reddit, no less. If you … Read more

Buying MicroStrategy as an indirect exposure to Bitcoin

buying microstrategy as exposure to bitcoin

Everyone’s talking about bitcoin these days, it seems. If you’re starting to feel that FOMO, but not sure how to get your hands on some coins, you can consider getting $MSTR stock as an indirect exposure to bitcoin. If you don’t know MicroStrategy, they are a business intelligence firm that recently converted their entire treasure … Read more

Gamblers of Robinhood

gamblers of robinhood

As casinos and sports shut down in the name of Covid, the world’s gamblers naturally turn to the only thing they can bet on. Stonks. People like Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, in the wake of sports pausing, re-fashioned himself to Davey Day Trader, and started trading stocks and buying up airlines at the … Read more

Understanding Candlestick Patterns

Understanding Candlestick Patterns

As a stock trader using technical analysis, understanding candlestick patterns, and identifying bullish and bearish candlestick signals are an important toolkit to have. In this post, I will introduce the idea of reading into the basics of candlestick analysis, and take a look at some bullish and bearish candlestick charts. You can also read more … Read more