Blog Archive: November 2025
Week 34 / Covered Call Portfolio Breaks $10K and Beats the S&P 500
As of November 28, 2025, our covered-call stock portfolio has surpassed the $10K milestone for the first time, closing at $10,069 — a weekly gain of +2.64% (+$269 versus last week). We reached the $10K mark a few weeks earlier than expected.As seasoned put sellers, we remain cautious and do not rule out a potential pullback in the coming weeks. Favorable EUR/USD exchange rate movements also contributed a small boost to the portfolio’s performance. Good progress overall.Additionally, at the office in Tbilisi today, we lit the Christmas tree and are officially ready for the holiday season.Year-to-date, we’re up 29.94%, outperforming the S&P 500 by a wide margin (+16%).As usual, we made no…
Week 33 / How We Earned $166 in Options Premium This Week with NVDA and BMY Credit Spreads
As of November 21, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has slightly increased to $9,810, what is another minor weekly increase of +0.77% (+$74 if compared to the previous week. $10,000 feels so close. With disciplined risk management, we should be able to hit it by year-end — a solid springboard for 2026.That said, our stock portfolio is performing significantly better than our crypto fund, which dropped 40% this week and is now more than 70% below its all-time high from just a few weeks ago. Surprisingly, but our NVDA-heavy covered-call portfolio continues to perform well. As usual, most of the week we made no major moves in the portfolio. We followed NVDA’s earnings report…
Week 32 / Weekly NVDA Options Income: $75 in Premiums and a 2.32% Portfolio Rise to $9,735
As of November 14, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has slightly increased to to $9,735, what is a minor increase of +2.32% (+$220 if compared to the previous week. $10,000 feels within reach. With disciplined risk management, we should be able to hit it by year-end — a solid springboard for 2026.Surprisingly, our NVDA-heavy covered-call portfolio continues to perform well. Its steady premium income and reduced directional exposure contrast sharply with the crypto hedge fund, which has already dropped more than 50% from its September peak.Most of the week went into building Python-powered machine learning bots for our options trading operations at Terramatris.I keep saying I’m a bit…
Week 31 / NVDA Dip Trims Covered-Call Portfolio to $9,514
As of November 7, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has slightly dipped to to $9,514, what is a minor decrease of -1.07% (+$102 if compared to the previous week. The dip is mainly due to the retracement in NVDA’s price and our need to adjust the bull put credit spread on it this Friday.Most of the week was quite slow and uneventful — which is usually a good thing. The exception was Friday, when NVDA briefly dipped below 180. I rolled our 185/175 credit spread to next week’s expiry.Frankly, NVDA is starting to look oversold to me. I’m considering taking a break from it, as I wouldn’t rule out a deeper correction — and since we’re trading on margin, that could get costly. Depending on…