Week 45 / Using Cash-Secured Puts to Accumulate Pfizer (PFE) Shares
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As of February 13, 2026, our covered-call stock portfolio has decreased slightly by -0.33% and closed at $11,069. Since I couldn’t continue with weekly NVDA spread trades — having already rolled them out to the February 27 expiry — I focused…
Why I Added Pfizer (PFE) Back to My Portfolio
| Stock Portfolio | 25 seen
Pfizer (PFE) is not a new name in my investing history. I was investing in PFE well before Covid, with fairly high expectations for the stock as a stable pharmaceutical blue-chip with strong cash flows and a reliable dividend profile. During the…
Why Invest in MicroStrategy (MSTR) When You Can Buy Bitcoin Directly?
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Like everyone in crypto should have heard about MicroStrategy by now. It’s impossible to miss it — Michael Saylor, massive debt issuance, billions in Bitcoin on the balance sheet, and MSTR trading like a leveraged BTC ticker. But what has always…
A Poor Man’s Buy/Write With XRP (Yes, It Exists)
| Crypto | 44 seen
On February 6, I opened a tiny XRP trade. Not because it will move markets. Not because it will fund early retirement. But because it’s a clean, honest example of how a buy/write strategy can work even in crypto.Think of this as poor man’s crypto…
Tbilisi ETH Hackathon: Finally Making It (and Mostly Drinking Beer)
| Living in Georgia | 44 seen
I first noticed ETH Chipmunks toward the end of 2025. They kept popping up on my radar via Luma links Ethereum meetups, hackathons, small community events in Tbilisi. I applied several times. Each time, something got postponed, rescheduled, or…
Week 44 / $94 Options Premium Earned Amid NVDA Volatility and Tech Sell-Off
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As of February 6, 2026, our covered-call stock portfolio has increased by another +0.51% and closed at $11,106. Wow, what a week - this has been a very tough week for tech stocks and crypto. Our Ethereum strategy fell by an additional 15%, and…
The Fisherman's Wharf Calangute
| Restaurant reviews | 60 seen
Some places just stick with you.The Fisherman’s Wharf in Calangute (Goa) is one of those restaurants we keep coming back to and not by accident. We first discovered it during our first India trip in 2023/2024, when we spent a few days staying in…
Week 43: Boring but Profitable — BMY Credit Spread Brings in $65 Options Premium
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As of January 30, 2026, our covered-call stock portfolio has once again increased by +2.43% and closed at $11,050. For the first time, we’ve cracked the $11K milestone. Awesome. Interestingly, we kept activity minimal this week the only…
How the NVDA Strategy Became the Backbone of Our Stock Portfolio
| Stock Portfolio | 36 seen
The NVDA strategy didn’t start as a master plan. It emerged out of necessity.About a year ago (2025), after the DeepSeek-related volatility shock that briefly crushed NVDA and other AI names, our stock portfolio was under pressure. I was using…
Bots, Rewards, and TerraM: Unexpected Signals from DeFi Liquidity
| Crypto | 27 seen
I minted 10,000 TerraM tokens back in 2022 with a very simple idea: raise $10,000 and trade Ethereum options. The plan was straightforward - tokenized participation, transparent backing, real trading activity. In practice, the initial capital raise…
Hiking to Turtle Lake: A Winter Trail in Tbilisi
| Living in Georgia | 86 seen
Last Sunday we did a hiking trip to Turtle Lake, starting from the stairs on Polikarpe Kakabadze street. I’ve been a big fan of hiking in Tbilisi for a long time. More than ten years ago, we used to do hiking trips almost every weekend, something I’…
How to Borrow Against Solana on Bybit to Boost Covered Call Income
| Crypto | 41 seen
On September 4, 2025, we launched the Solana Covered Call Growth Fund at Terramatris. The fund’s objective is to grow our SOL holdings primarily through selling covered calls, with most initial positions entered via cash-secured puts.Although the…
Week 42 / $107 Options Income From Rolling NVDA Credit Spreads During the Greenland Shock
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As of January 23, 2026, our covered-call stock portfolio has dipped slightly by -0.43% and closed at $10,788.The previous week was highly turbulent. As the market opened on Tuesday, NVDA briefly dipped below my call strike levels. Given the elevated…
Week 41 / NVDA Credit Spread Strategy: 0.43% Weekly Return if Expires Worthless
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Greetings from Tbilisi. After more than three weeks in India, we are finally back—welcomed by temperatures below 0°C and already missing Goa and its +31°C.Last week, we also held our annual office party (Caucasus Translations) at Babilo Music Hall,…
TerraM 52‑Week Saving Challenge: Commitment, Liquidity, and Skin in the Game
| Investments | 37 seen
I have attempted the classic 52‑week saving challenge several times over the years. I tried it with cash, mutual funds, and even speculative assets like meme coins. Results were mixed. Sometimes the discipline worked, sometimes it failed - …