Why These Are Strong, Profitable Companies for Long-Term Option Sellers Selling put options is not about chasing excitement. It is about discipline, patience, and choosing assets I am genuinely comfortable owning if the market forces assignment. As we move toward 2026, volatility is likely to remain a constant feature of the market—driven by interest rates, geopolitics, technology disruption, and shifting capital flows. For option sellers, this environment is not a threat. It is an opportunity. The key is what we sell puts on. I focus on companies and ETFs that meet a few non-negotiable criteria: • Positive earnings or strong cash-flow visibility • Durable business models • Liquidity in the options market • A valuation framework that provides downside support The following list reflects na

Last Week and 2025's Recap1.The US Market - Gained double-digits for a 3rd straight year in 2025Indexes: $S&P 500(.SPX)$ recorded a weekly drop of about 1.03%, with technology stocks showing mixed performance and investor sentiment cautious due to Federal Reserve minutes and geopolitical tensions. $Dow Jones(.DJI)$ saw a decline of approximately 0.67%, $NASDAQ(.IXIC)$ fell by around 1.52%. Triple play: The $S&P 500(.SPX)$ ’s 16.39% total return for 2025 marked the third year in a row that the index generated a double-digit gain. The Mag 7 names contributed 42% of the S&P 500’s total return in 2025 and 55% o

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$   2025 Market Reality Check: Silver +139%, Bitcoin Red. Is the "Easy Money" Era Over? The scorecard for 2025 is in, and it just shattered the most popular retail narrative of the last decade. If you spent 2025 chasing "digital gold" or waiting for a small-cap breakout, you likely ended the year frustrated. But if you held boring, tangible assets or looked outside the US bubble, you made a fortune. The divergence in this data is violent. We didn't just see a market rally; we witnessed a historic capital rotation. Money didn't flee the system—it fled speculation and piled into scarcity. With Silver ($SLV) nearly doing a 2.5x while Bitcoin ($BTC) finished in the red, the market is sending a loud signal for 2026. Here is the

One-sentence recap 2025 reminded me that leverage magnifies mistakes faster than conviction, but disciplined alloca tion, capital preservation, and steady options income allowed my overall portfolio to remain resilient and profitable despite market uncertainty. ⸻ 2025 Investment Recap: A Year Where Risk Management Beat Market Noise Introduction: A Year That Tested Conviction 2025 was not a year for complacency. Markets swung violently between fear and euphoria, driven by political surprises, policy uncertainty, and a historic acceleration in artificial intelligence and computing power. Donald Trump’s return to the political stage reignited concerns around tariffs, fiscal policy, and geopolitical alignment. At the same time, AI capital expenditure exploded, pushing megacap technology compan

2025 will go down as one of those years that felt emotionally longer than it was on the calendar. It was a year where headlines moved markets faster than fundamentals, where fear and euphoria alternated with dizzying speed, and where the line between discipline and impulse was tested almost daily. From Trump’s return to center stage and the policy uncertainty that followed 🇺🇸, to artificial intelligence reshaping capital allocation at a pace I had never seen before 🤖, to gold quietly rewriting its own history while equity investors were distracted by megacaps — 2025 was not just a trading year. It was a psychological endurance test. Looking back, the question that matters most isn’t how much was made, but what was learned, what was missed, and what scars were earned along the way. ⸻

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$   The Brutal Truth About Wealth: Why Your 9-to-5 Matters More Than Your Portfolio (For Now) Is your goal to get rich overnight, or to never have to say "yes" to a boss you hate ever again? Let’s be real for a second. We all love posting screenshots of 50% gains and 10x baggers here on Tiger. But the original intention of investing wasn't to gamble for a lucky break—it was to reach a state where your passive income eventually exceeds your active income. That state is almost impossible to achieve in a year or two. It’s not a lottery; it’s a discipline. And for most of us starting out, the "boring" reality is that your day job is actually your most important asset. 1️⃣ The "Boring" Math of Accumulation Many retail investors

As we wrap up the year, let’s take a look back at the Top 10 Most Popular Articles on the Tiger Community in 2025!A huge thank-you to all our Tigers for contributing to the community—sharing outstanding stock insights, helping fellow members answer questions, and enabling many to discover and seize trading opportunities along the way.Thank you all for being part of our community in 2025. The Tigers whose posts were selected as the Top 10 Articles of the Year have each received 500 Tiger Coins, which have been credited to your accounts. You can view the details in the Tiger Coin Center under ‘History.Now, let’s see which articles made the list!1. @nerdbull1669 | MicroStr

I would sum up my 2025 investment journey as the year of Chuck Norris. The wide monthly swings ment I had to have balls of steel. I'm ok with this, a number of my investments  are growth stocks with crazy betas.  So I'm 55, if I had an investment advisor they would call me crazy. That's why I don't have an investment advisor.  2 years ago I had approximately $30k in retirement savings and $10k available to invest via tiger trade. My thinking back then was do I do what I should do and just invest in "safe" low yield stuff. Problem with that strategy was that at retirement age I'd be lucky to have $100k. No way was that going to be enough. So I needed to go against the norm. But also needed to mitigate the risk somehow. So I've done just that. My total portfolio is now approac

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ So to sum up my investments in 2025, well as the memes below illustrate, I'm not bothered. So I call myself the emotional investor. I don't often explain my principles behind emotional investment. Usually it's very subtle. so today in this post I'll explain one rule of emotional investment that has more than 10x my portfolio. And I will be on point regarding the topic... which is about volatility and uncertainty. For an emotional investor, uncertainty creates opportunity. The street hates uncertainty, basically a stock with high levels of uncertainty gets taken out back and gets shot in the head. On the other side is certainly. Stocks like $Realty Income(O)$ that have paid and

2025 slipped away quietly. It’s now only the second day of 2026, and like any reflective investor, I found myself staring at numbers—specifically, the P&L analysis in my Tiger Brokers account. Rows of numbers, green and red, unrealised and realised. I’ve learned that if you stare long enough, numbers stop being numbers and start becoming memories. I opened my Tiger Brokers account back in 2023. Those early years felt encouraging. Both 2023 and 2024 ended with positive overall P&L, reinforcing a sense that I was doing something right. The market rewarded my decisions, and confidence slowly but surely grew. Then came 2025—a humbling reminder that investing is never a straight line upward. For the first time since I started, my overall P&L for the year turned negative. Seeing red

🌟🌟🌟As part of my annual review for 2025, I wanted to share some raw, emotive and slightly humorous lessons from a year in the market that felt less like a sophisticated waltz and more like a high stakes game of whack a mole.  It was a roller coaster of gratitude and a few, ahem  "educational opportunities". My 2025 Market Diary: The Core Lessons Learnt I am genuinely grateful for a very successful 2025 overall, thanks largely to a few patient, reliable workhorses that reminded me that slow and steady can in fact win the race and prevent a heart attack.  The Beauty: The Art of Being Boring My biggest gratitude goes to my core index ETFs: $SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF(SPYM)$  $

$Astera Labs, Inc.(ALAB)$   $BP PLC(BP)$     Global Markets 2025 Review and 2026 Outlook Key Points BP advanced its strategic reset by agreeing to sell a majority stake in Castrol, accelerating asset divestments and sharpening its focus on core oil and gas operations to strengthen the balance sheet. European equities edged higher in thin holiday trading, led by a sharp rally in healthcare after Novo Nordisk extended gains on regulatory approval of its oral GLP-1 treatment, reinforcing investor appetite for defensive growth. Asia closed 2025 with sharply mixed outcomes, as trade pressures, political unrest and natural disasters weig

$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$  $BP PLC(BP)$   Global Markets Forecast 2026 As 2025 Draws To A Close Key Points  BP advanced its strategic reset by agreeing to sell a majority stake in Castrol, accelerating asset divestments and sharpening its focus on core oil and gas operations to strengthen the balance sheet. European equities edged higher in thin holiday trading, led by a sharp rally in healthcare after Novo Nordisk extended gains on regulatory approval of its oral GLP-1 treatment, reinforcing investor appetite for defensive growth. Asia closed 2025 with sharply mixed outcomes, as trade pressures, political unrest and natural disasters weighed on parts of the region,