I opened 1 lot(s) $VXX 20250516 50.0 PUT$  ,VXX: collect 1.2% premium in this cash secured put with strike at $50. Contract expires this Fri on 16th May. VXX dropped 13% on Monday after news of lowered US and China tariffs and the market rallied. This is turn meant reduced volatility in the meantime till the next event. Chance to cover back some of the shorts I've sold over the past few weeks when volatility spiked. Will start accumulating VXX at $50 and below as expect the 90 days world wide pause to eventually create some last min uncertainty before it either extended or selected countries get their deals completed. Either way, it's inefficient way of world trade that causes uncertainty and possible missteps. 

I opened 1 lot(s) $VXX 20250523 50.0 PUT$  ,VXX: collect 1.8% premium in this cash secured put with strike at $50.  Contract expires next Fri on 23rd May.  VXX dropped 13% on Monday after news of lowered US and China tariffs and the market rallied. This is turn meant reduced volatility in the meantime till the next event.  Chance to cover back some of the shorts I've sold over the past few weeks when volatility spiked. Will start accumulating VXX at $50 and below as expect the 90 days world wide pause to eventually create some last min uncertainty before it either extended or selected countries get their deals completed.  Either way, it's inefficient way of world trade that causes uncertainty and possibl

I closed 50.0 share(s) $VanEck Gold Miners ETF(GDX)$  ,GDX: close a quarter of my short positions on GDX as this gold miners ETF cooled down significantly on Monday on news that US and China deescalated the tariffs war and greatly reduced the tariffs imposed on each other.  Took a small profit on these stocks. This is on top of the options profit from the initial short positions. Overall a good venture. 

$iPath Series B S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN(VXX)$   Sharing to earn weekly 50 coins.  Volatility came down sharply on news of resetting of US and China's tariff rates.  Market is cheering so expect to reduce some positions with profits. 

I opened 4.0 share(s) $Alphabet(GOOG)$  ,GOOG: bought in some additional shares to average down and increase my share holding on GOOG.  The sell down on news that AAPL might consider adding AI services into their phones that might impede the success of Google search and other services which until recently was a captured market due to AAPL and GOOG unique tie up collaboration whigh GOOG pays AAPL a significant sum to stay a a default search app. 

I opened 1 lot(s) $AMZN 20250523 200.0 CALL$  ,AMZN: collect 0.75% premium from this covered call with strike at $200.  Contract expires in 3 weeks on 23rd May.  Stock touch its small resistence level of $192 and might retrace or breakout depending on general market.  Earnings already out so that took away an element of uncertainty.  Tariffs will certainly hit its product business but the web services and entertainment should survive mostly intact.  Selling new short duration calls to capture come premium but also aware the timing might not be perfect.  $200 should provide additional resistance to slow down or to break higher.

I opened 0.96809 share(s) $iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF(IJR)$  ,I opened $iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF(IJR)$ ,Take a look at the latest order I posted！ IJR: another weekly DCA into IJR ETF. As it stands, my current average is about 11% in the red so any new purchases as averaging down tv e total cost.  Hope for reversal, yet at the same time understand that it might under perform overmarket in current environment.

I opened 1 lot(s) $GDX 20250516 52.0 CALL$  ,GDX: collect 1.3% premium on this sold call with strike at $52. Contract expires next Fri on 16th May. gold price continue to stay elevated. Still betting that $3500 resistance will be a strong one for now until new catalyst or weakness in the market push it above the level. In the meanwhile, sell new call to capture some premium on the bearish side betting that it will retrace before making the next big move. 

I opened 1 lot(s) $GDX 20250509 50.0 CALL$  ,GDX: collect 1.7% premium on this sold call with strike at $50. Contract expires this Fri on 9th May. gold price continue to stay elevated. Still betting that $3500 resistance will be a strong one for now until new catalyst or weakness in the market push it above the level. In the meanwhile, sell new call to capture some premium on the bearish side betting that it will retrace before making the next big move. 

I opened 1 lot(s) $GDX 20250530 53.0 CALL$  ,GDX: collect 1.75% premium on this sold call with strike at $53.  Contract expires in 4 weeks on 30th May.  gold price continue to stay elevated. Still betting that $3500 resistance will be a strong one for now until new catalyst or weakness in the market push it above the level.  In the meanwhile, sell new call to capture some premium on the bearish side betting that it will retrace before making the next big move. 

I opened 1.0 share(s) $Costco(COST)$  ,COST: add another short positions to average up the cost of short on COST.  Great company yet at the time of very high premium paid to own this stock.  Seemed overvalued and didn't factor much of tariffs pressure on imported consumer goods that either raise price to consumers therefore lower demands or absorb price increases therefore lower profit margins. Full impact of the tariffs to neighbouring countries Mexico and Canada as well as rest of the world is still not fully understood.  Betting on bearish mood for a very high valuation company. Trade might take some time to pan out as long as bulls add onto COST as consumer staple counters. 

I opened 1 lot(s) $GILD 20250516 95.0 PUT$  ,GILD: collect 1.15% premium on this cash secured put with strike at $95.  Contract expires next Fri on 16th May.  Poor timing when selling this early of the trading session and GILD fell almost 5% for the day so the put were in the red for now.  Still have some buffer before hitting the strike price of $95.  GILD is still the market leader for HIV drugs and it's a pretty captured market providing a steady revenue stream amidst uncertainty.  Trumps hawkish RFK's on medisave and anti big pharma might dampen mood for this stock.  Will see how to trade this over a medium period. 

I opened 1 lot(s) $ANF 20250606 85.0 CALL$  ,ANF: collect 1.9% premium on this covered call with lowered strike at $85. Contract expires in 5 weeks on 6th June.  ANF is making lows and been bearish and had been down 65% off its May 2024 peak.  Since I have these on average of $100, will be incurring loss if calls ends in the money. Will decide what to do with it when expire nears.  For now ANF suffers tariffs headwinds as most fashions products manufactures in high tariff countries and also facing possible declining consumer spending should US economy cools.