Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. Dividend focus or growth focus? I think this is a common question that most investors will have when they start their investment journey, or when they rebalance their portfolio. This a a dilemma for me till today as well, should I even consider to include the stock in my portfolio if it does not pay dividends? I will break down my thoughts about this in the following segments. 1. Dividends Are Not a Guarantee of Quality A dividend payout doesn’t automatically make a stock superior. Intel (INTC) is a great example of how even a long-standing dividend aristocrat can face challenges due to competitive pressures, technological shifts, or mismanagement. Dividends can s

$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$   I personally dont trade earnings call. But as you can see on my chart, it's indecisive. So I will take an air of caution and hold off till market open tomorrow, after the earnings call.  I rather miss out then lose out. [Cool]   @Madluvyz - Specialist in using technical analysis to sell options and swing trade. 

As I predicted, technology stocks were running up a tad too fast, leading to a boiling point. Now its undergoing a minor correction.  My sell Call spreads are all safe now. Phew! It was a positive end to the week. Onwards to the next one!  [Cool]  [Miser]  [Heart]  

Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. I personally think that there is still bearishness in the market, looking at the tremendous challenges that the trump/republican administration has to overcome. So I will take a precautionary bullish sentiment till the inauguration day.  Taking into account the unstable mental space of trump, I will not take a firm stand on a definite santa rally. [Glance]   @madluvyz - Specialist in using TA to sell options and swing trade.😺

Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. The announcement of Deepseek, a rival company of AI from China, being able to produce AItechnology at a much lower cost. But if you look deeper, everything is premature.  The cost of research and execution is not even taken into account yet. So I really do not believe this will change the landscape and potential of US based AI companies.  It just makes them cheaper and at a discount, if you are a long term trader. So I believe NVDA will bounce back, and bounce back hard if it does.  @madluvyz - Specialist in using TA to sell options and swing trade.😺

An overview on some companies on my watchlist that are announcing earnings on the coming week. Most of them are speculated to be beating earnings estimates. However, as we saw in GOOGL, beating estimates doesn't necessarily equate to a bullish move in the stock.  I used to trade pre/post earnings , betting a strong upside or downside move. But I have stopped since a year ago as I felt the risk/reward ratio does not make sense anymore. I prefer selling vertical option contracts as it is more sustainable and enable me to have a healthier mental space. But if you are an earnings trader, this will be useful information. 

$PANW VERTICAL 241129 CALL 410.0/CALL 412.5$  Filled @ $0.57db. So overall earnings = $0.72 - $0.57 = $0.14/$2.50 = 5.6% over 5 days.  I was going to close the trade yesterday before earnings. However, I didn't get a fill. Post-market indicated that there was a drastic drop post earnings. But on market open, the stock went up.  Earnings report beat estimates so I am closing the trade early and taking a small profit. I might buy some shares before stock split.

$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$   Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your own due diligence before making any decision. NVDA, the "darling" stock of 2024. It dipped despite earnings beat. I think maybe because the beat is not good enough than market sentiment. Another point is the sharks (Fund houses) think NVDA is at a infection point, so they are massively dumping stocks.  So according to my TA, NVDA havent even drop to its previous support lvl of $131, so I wont even entertain the idea of entering a position till the stock reach its support level.  However, if you are already holding stock of NVDA, and have a time horizon of at lest 5 years, do not panic sell. Hold it as NVDA will surely re

Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. Maybe this will be a trigger for recovery in war stocks? Or a final jab at Trump by Biden before the Republicans take over the reins? It will be an interesting 2025 and beyond. But a firm believer that as long as you stay invested, you will eventually reap the rewards. Use compounding and time to your advantage, not to your disadvantage. [Sly]   @madluvyz - Specialist in using TA to sell options and swing trade.😺

$SNOW VERTICAL 250221 PUT 172.5/PUT 170.0$  Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. Opened a new trade on SNOW, looking to ride the bullish momentum. 2 weeks expiry just before earnings announcement, and keeping the spread tight at 2.5.  @madluvyz - Specialist in using TA to sell options and swing trade.😺

Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. I added NIO x 10 shares @ $4.40 each yesterday. I watched the documentary named Next Gen China on youtube. It featured NIO as its focus as they are piloting a battery swap technology which enable users to have a new battery in their cars at all times just with a press of a button in the car, even when you are sleeping, dining in a restaurant or chilling. The car has an automated technology to drive to the nearest battery swap station, and the whole process is automated and driverless. This eliminates the trouble of having to find a EV charging station on the road, and waiting for your car to be charged. The time saved is being rewarded back to the consumers. They

Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. Will I jump on the AI craze wagon? Looking at the list of AI companies with their fundamentals, only three companies out of the list are profitable. With that said, C3AI, one of the most discussed AI stock, did secure a collaboration with Microsoft and has some patents on AI tech being approved.  However, I still remain the outlook that AI is a speculative play, much like commodities such as cryptocurrencies. You would need to prepare to lose everything that you invest in. So be wary of how much exposure you have in it vs your overall portfolio. Make a smart and calculated bet, not just following the noise.[Cool]   @madluvyz - Specialist in using TA

$NVIDIA(NVDA)$   Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. NVDA seems to resume its bullish reversal after the brief shake up by news of deepseek being able to create an AI algorithm with a lower cost model. Never doubt the potential and instrinsic bullishness that NVDA has built. They are one of the pioneer companies that started tremendous investment in the AI space, designing chips and tech to support that thesis.  Heard from the canadian investor podcast recently that Singapore is the highest comsumer of NVDA chips in Asia, ranking third in amount of purchase. But taking into account the small size of Singapore, the sp

Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your own due diligence before making any decision. $META VERTICAL 241213 PUT 547.5/PUT 545.0$  Opened a vertical put position on META, with $0.56cr. Meta is near its bottom regression line, all the indicators is signaling a potential bullish reversal.  Coupled with the traditional end of year bullishness, believe that META will not drop below my strike price. 😁 @madluvyz - Specialist in using TA to sell options and swing trade.

$SUPER MICRO COMPUTER INC(SMCI)$   Selling a 17/16 put spread on SMCI 20 Dec expiry.  Clear indicators of a bounceback, 17 is at the lowest support lvl at the nearest bottom regression line.  My rule of thumb, at lest 20% profit from every trade.  [Miser]   In this trading game for the long run. @madluvyz - Specialist in sell options trading and swing trading.

KO has hit the bottom of regression line, and bouncing off with slight bullish signal. With that, Im going for a 60/59 Put spread, 27/12/2024 expiry, for at lest $0.20cr. Giving it time to turn bullish and tradtionally stock rally real hard going into the end of year and new year.  But with Trump at helm and Republicans having full control of the Senate and Congress, its hard to predict. So coming from a pure Technical analysis perspective.  @madluvyz - A specialist in using technical analysis for sell options strategy and swing trading. 

Started my investment journey 5 years ago. Started with purchasing ILPs from insurance agents, and eventually realizing that the fees involved is too much, so I closed my plan and suffered a loss.  So from this, Ive learnt that in order to control my own money flow, I have to start learning how to manage it on my own. So I started understanding what is expense ratio, MER and etc... So after that, I started RSPs with etfs.  From that foundation, I started to explore options trading through a seminar I attended at MBS. Eventually I paid for a course and trade side by side with a "guru". His trade record is not as amazing as he advertised, however the content he presented was easily relatable as he is a Singaporean. I realized that most information in the internet are based in overs

$QCOM VERTICAL 250228 PUT 160.0/PUT 162.5$  One of the many losses Ive beared over the past two weeks d/t sharp drops in the tech sector as my options were heavily weighed on tech. Will avoid tech related stocks going into start of March. 

Disclaimer: Whatever I say or post doesn't act as financial advice, so please do your due diligence before making any decision. Resilent - Traditionally safer sectors like Utilities and Healthcare.  Shaky - Tech stocks. Although I should emphasize that there was a small jump towards the upside at closing yesterday. But I still think its not the strong rebound that everyone is waiting for.  With these reasons, I open the option trades that were posted yesterday.[Cool]   @madluvyz - Specialist in using TA to sell options and swing trade.😺

$Microsoft(MSFT)$ HOLD!