🗓 Post Date: 9/14/26 ----------------------------------- 🚦 Started: 8/17/26 | 💵 $100 Only 🎯 TRADE DETAILS - CLOSED #️⃣ Trade #: 4 🎟 $KDP | 3 shares @ $31.64 avg 💲 Capital Deployed: $94.94 💵 Cash Remaining: $9.44 🕒 Time in Trade: 6 days ✨️ Trade Results: +$0.98 🪜 CLIMBING PROGRESS 🔙 Previous Ladder: $104.38 👣 Step Change: +$0.98 (+0.938%) 💰 Current Ladder: $105.36 🧗♀️ Total Climb Returns: +5.36% ⛰️ Total Journey: 5 weeks 🔄 Trades Completed: 4 ----------------------------------- Hello tradevestors, 👋 Week 5 is officially underway, and I just closed out $KDP in the green! 💚 That brings the winning streak to 4-0. 😎 Let’s see if I can keep it going! I've entered a new trade and will post updates after it closes. Follow along, and let’s see how high I can climb this 1 Stock Ladder. 🧗♀️ 🪜 Myra, The Weekly Tradevestor read more
As I always say, the market has and will always give you opportunities. Today is another day. Decide whether to take it or leave it. Personal favourite list for today: 1. $BE 2. $GLW 3. $LITE 4. $NVDA 5. $DRAM 6. $CRDO 7. $AVGO DYOR. read more
I’m a beginner trader learning stocks and options, and I’m starting with paper trading before slowly moving into real trades and ramping up. For experienced traders, what stocks or options would you recommend a beginner focus on in the current market? I’m open to U.S. stocks/options, Canadian ones, or a mix of both. Looking for good tickers to learn and practice with while keeping things manageable. 📈 Would love your recommendations!
The reason was the bond market: yields pushed through 5% and repriced every stock at once. But the index color hid the real story. The market did not fall as one. The leaders held. $QCOM closed up over four percent Tuesday while the indexes bled, the cleanest strength on my board. $META held green while the market fell, its relative strength at the top of my scale, though it is getting overbought. The weak side sank. $WDC , $LRCX and $AMAT , the equipment behind the AI chips, carry some of the weakest strength on my board and stayed in distribution. That is the weak side, the names the money is leaving. Two I have tracked: $AVGO kept leaking, down more than six percent, my skip holding. $ABBV walked right up to the line I have watched and my scanner flipped it to a buy, the buyers finally at the door. Not investment advice. Find more of my deep dives on my newsletter 🐝
My LEAPS and calls tanked overnight. Since it was about 90% of my portfolio I took almost a 30% hit on my entire account (not as bad as I expected). These are the risks that we take when buying options, beginners fail to realize. They see huge gains but what happens when your bias fails and price goes against you? This is what trading is, there’s no room for emotion, only logical reasoning. I have high conviction even now, which is why rolled my LEAPS into 90 - 180 dte calls on this opportunity dip. If it goes lower, so be it. But in a month max I am convinced I will not regret this decision. read more
