SPYD
SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF
stock NYSE ETF

Just like the title says, I hit an all time high today in my portfolio, and historically whenever that's happened, there's been a pullback for me. Earlier this year I saw it go from over 1M down to $600K because of all the things that have been happening, DeepSeek, Tariffs, Chip policies, and a plethora of other things. I stuck through it all, even trading options some weeks like a whirling dervish trying to hold on to my hard earned money that I have invested.
In the end, all that trading paid off, and while I had several strangles setup from now until November, I woke up today to an all time high account balance significantly higher than the previous ATH, and just thought to myself "I need some time for a reset, and to get some better positioned shares, options, the whole thing.
It took over 34 trades, covering 349 options contracts, and 9000 shares. Since June of last year I had originally entered with buy prices of $129, $135, and I took some short put assignments as high as $150 in some cases. I heavily traded covered calls, naked calls, short puts, but never really sold the stock much over the year. My average buy price registered in the brokerage as an average of $141 per share.
After all was said and done, the PnL breakdown was as follows:

Overall PnL +$177,651
Stock buys and sells -$16,921 loss
Cash/Margin Secured Puts +$117,377 gain
Short Call Contracts +$77,195 gain

Just to have a completely clean break, and a new reset, I even closed all my positions in SMCI (+33%) GOOG (+6.5%) SPYD (+1%) and QQQI (+7.4%)
I will keep trading NVDA, but I think I will ease back in. I was a bit over my head for a while, and when the pressure to the downside was on I refused to give up, and had to shift some money from my "Safe" account over to bail out the margin calls.
Now, the "Safe Account" will stay as is. I mostly have a steady income fund that provides about 10% per year, and a couple of smaller investments in tech funds which incidentally I had bought on April 4th on the big dip.
It actually feels good to be liberated a bit from trying to keep spinning all those contracts. And even though I had to spend a lot of money today to close those short contracts, it is worth it to feel like I can start again fresh sitting at my own all time high.
Will I be back in NVDA? You bet! I love trading this beast. First order of business will be to watch for Cash Secured short puts in the next few weeks.
Good luck to all, thanks for reading my post.

Just like the title says, I hit an all time high today in my portfolio, and historically whenever that's happened, there's been a pullback for me. Earlier this year I saw it go from over 1M down to $600K because of all the things that have been happening, DeepSeek, Tariffs, Chip policies, and a plethora of other things. I stuck through it all, even trading options some weeks like a whirling dervish trying to hold on to my hard earned money that I have invested.
In the end, all that trading paid off, and while I had several strangles setup from now until November, I woke up today to an all time high account balance significantly higher than the previous ATH, and just thought to myself "I need some time for a reset, and to get some better positioned shares, options, the whole thing.
It took over 34 trades, covering 349 options contracts, and 9000 shares. Since June of last year I had originally entered with buy prices of $129, $135, and I took some short put assignments as high as $150 in some cases. I heavily traded covered calls, naked calls, short puts, but never really sold the stock much over the year. My average buy price registered in the brokerage as an average of $141 per share.
After all was said and done, the PnL breakdown was as follows:

Overall PnL +$177,651
Stock buys and sells -$16,921 loss
Cash/Margin Secured Puts +$117,377 gain
Short Call Contracts +$77,195 gain

Just to have a completely clean break, and a new reset, I even closed all my positions in SMCI (+33%) GOOG (+6.5%) SPYD (+1%) and QQQI (+7.4%)
I will keep trading NVDA, but I think I will ease back in. I was a bit over my head for a while, and when the pressure to the downside was on I refused to give up, and had to shift some money from my "Safe" account over to bail out the margin calls.
Now, the "Safe Account" will stay as is. I mostly have a steady income fund that provides about 10% per year, and a couple of smaller investments in tech funds which incidentally I had bought on April 4th on the big dip.
It actually feels good to be liberated a bit from trying to keep spinning all those contracts. And even though I had to spend a lot of money today to close those short contracts, it is worth it to feel like I can start again fresh sitting at my own all time high.
Will I be back in NVDA? You bet! I love trading this beast. First order of business will be to watch for Cash Secured short puts in the next few weeks.
Good luck to all, thanks for reading my post.