Blog Archive: December 2025
Why I Don’t Like Selling Credit Spreads Without Owning the Underlying Asset
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Credit spreads are popular for a reason. They look elegant on paper: defined risk, high probability, steady income. I trade them myself - regularly. But over the years, one conviction has become very clear to me: I do not like selling credit…
Week 38 / Road to $25K: Closing 2025 Above $10K with Covered Calls and NVDA
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Greetings from India. This holiday season we’re in South Goa, staying near Palolem Beach — our third year in a row returning here. With temperatures above 30 °C and Kingfisher beer under $2 per bottle, the place is hard to beat. With a portfolio our…
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj (Mumbai) International Airport
| Airports | 100 seen
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport is the international airport serving Mumbai, the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the second-busiest airport in India in terms of total and international passenger traffic after…
Gateway of India, Mumbai
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I first visited the Gateway of India at the end of December 2025, during our three-week trip to India. We spent only a few short days in Mumbai, and this stop was not planned in any deep or academic way. We arrived from The Lalit Hotel by Uber —…
Road to a $25,000 Stock Portfolio with Options Trading
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With the new year of 2026 fast approaching, I’ve decided to start another challenge.This one is deliberately smaller than my previous ambitions of building a $100K or even a $1M portfolio. Not because those goals are impossible, but because this…
Week 37 / NVDA & BMY: Portfolio Up +1.11% as We Head from Tbilisi to India
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As of December 19, 2025, our covered-call stock portfolio has grown by an additional 1.11% and reached $10,465. It’s genuinely exciting to be above $10K for the fourth week in a row. I was expecting to fall under $10K this week as volatility kicked…
Week 36 / Defensive Roll on SHELL, New NVDA Weekly Spread
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As of December 12, 2025, our covered-call stock portfolio has grown by an additional 1.12% and reached $10,350. It’s genuinely exciting to be above $10K for the third week in a row.Still, I’ve been in the stock market too long to rule out a possible…
Week 35 / NVDA Spreads + McDonald’s Buys: Covered-Call Portfolio Hits $10,235
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As of December 5, 2025, our covered-call stock portfolio has grown by an additional 1.65% and reached $10,235. It’s genuinely exciting to be above $10K for the second week in a row.Still, I’ve been in the stock market too long to rule out a possible…
Mziuri Tennis Club in Tbilisi
| Living in Georgia | 55 seen
Our family has been attending Mziuri Tennis Club in Tbilisi since September 2025, after several recommendations from our BIST community. We signed up our 7-year-old for the junior program, which costs 300 GEL per month. After a few months of regular…