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2025 - A Year in the Trenches

2025 - A Year in the Trenches

This Option Strategy almost always beats a SPY or QQQ Buy-and-Hold

This Option Strategy almost always beats a SPY or QQQ Buy-and-Hold

This Option Strategy Made You >2.5x Buy-and-Hold in AAPL

This Option Strategy Made You >2.5x Buy-and-Hold in AAPL

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22
Mar
A conceptual photojournalistic image features a stone-carved inscription "AMOR FATI," set against a massive, fracturing granite cliff.

The Arithmetic of Survival: "One Path" and the Geometry of Wealth

I thought this was a great time to revisit one of the most influential books I read, "Safe Haven - Investing for Financial Storms" by Mark Spitznagel. Here is a short essay.
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07
Mar
The Last Bit of Snow This Year. Timberline Lodge, Mt Hood, Oregon. Picture Credit - Me! Feb 15, 2026.

Day 103

Foolish Trader Journal, Day 103.
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01
Mar
NanoBanana Prompt:The market came out ahead at the start of the week, rising quickly in the middle, then deflating and falling behind by the end of the week.

Day 102

Foolish Trader Journal, Day 102. Flat week, but I was able to get another baby sized 0-DTE win!
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21
Feb
VIX-o-meter

Day 101

Foolish Trader Journal, Day 101.
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14
Feb
Create an image showing a visual where profits and losses are represented as a donut with the losses in red and profits in green, while the profits in green are disappearing

Day 100

Foolish Trader Journal, Day 100.
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01
Feb
Cartoon sketch of a woman trying to walk a tightrope

Day 99

Foolish Trader Journal, Day 99.
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24
Jan
A Narrow Train Track - Picture Credit - Me!

Day 98

Foolish Trader Journal, Day 98. What a week! Finally some volatility after a lukewarm start to the year!
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18
Jan
My daughter's subset of toy cars. Picture credit - me! A set of toy cars arranged like an aircraft. Also shown is Blackbird toy model - fastest aircraft I know of!

Day 97

Foolish Trader Journal, Day 97.
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10
Jan
A small aircraft flying up in the sky with a backdrop of tall trees below it

Day 96

Foolish Trader Journal, Day 96. Happy New Year 2026! Year 2 of this site begins!
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31
Dec
Tumalo Falls, Bend, Oregon, USA - Dec 29, 2020. Picture Credit - Me!

2025 - A Year in the Trenches

End of Year Review - 2025.
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