$RKLB 20260116 2.0 CALL$ Ok so this was the very first options trade I wrote, over a month ago. As you can see I went long, jan 2026, and paid $2.50 for a $2 Right to buy. I have a huge amount of confidence in rocket lab going forward and my intention for this call is to hold it and excise it. Well that was my original intention. But woot, it's now officially in the money today. I'm clearly a bunny when it comes to options. And loving the comments I get from you guys that help me to expand my knowledge. I'm thinking and have actually since this first option trade... looked to cheaper and shorter term trades, but I'm pleased to see the first one, and actually all of my calls so far being in positive territory now. But this trade
Yes I'll be looking to buy more, but not the stock more likely calls. The other item that has come to my attention is that nvidias new AI chips are apparently very very greedy on power, so maybe another long term play is power stocks. Look at where data centres are concentrated and buy into power companies that support those areas. This is going to take some research but I think it's worth it. @Tiger_chat@TigerPM@Daily_Discussion@TigerPicks
So, i believe the biggest issue fundamental investors have is the information they rely on. Often, more often than you think, it's actually wrong, or sometimes it's just calculated in a way you didn't realise. I will use two cases to illustrate, from one investor class... the dividend investor. I look at data every day, and dividend investors are looking for consistent and growing company dividend over time. Personally I want a dividend stock to be doing both. At least once a week, information about the stock I invest in is actually wrong. #arcc last week for eg on one site told me it paid a dividend of only 3 cents per share during 2 quarters of last year, totally wrong. Checking other sources quickly confirmed it to be totally wrong. Moral of the story... don't trust one source of data,
So to answer the question re tariff wars between USA and China, id like to do a wee technique used in strategic management called scenario planning, here goes: China will return fire on the new 104% tariff imposed by America, talks will break down and tariffs will continue to escalate to insane levels... 200%, 400%, heck it doesn't matter. Tariffs Will become a moot point, essentially China and America will halt all trade. China has a competitive advantage now, because the USA has blanket tariffs on the rest of the world and China doesn't, the latter will build stronger trade relations with the rest of the world. Canada is a obvious choice here, and its already happening with oil and gas. While the White House will continue with its ill conceived tariff plan (heck the gdp calculations they
$S&P 500(.SPX)$ Ok l lets cut to the chase. Trump's "tariffs" are total horse nuggets! He got someone to use chat gp to figure it out obviously but clearly the illiterate person who did it questioned chat gp badly, garbage in, garbage out. For a start one of the country's on the list has a population of zero, another is a tiny attol with nothing but a US army base on it, another 2 are not actually countries. Then theres the tariff calcs, totally wrong: for example New Zealand and Australian tariffs on the USA are actually under 2% not 20%. 20% is actually the trade deficit. So would you expect a country of 6 mil people like nz to buy as much as a country of 300 mil people? Its nonsense. But its his business strategy as outlined in a book of hi
$Tiger Brokers(TIGR)$ BUY THE DIP! what amuses me the most is market commentators, aka the sheep of Wall Street. Don't get me wrong there are many people that are intelligent and write well reasoned and researched articles. Problem is, you have to dig through a mountain of horse nuggets to find one gold nugget. There is a huge amount of click bait out there atm saying the market is about to crash. And just as many commentators saying it's the dip buy the dip, you will be a millionaire if you buy now. So who is right and who is wrong? Neither side is the correct answer. For a start, if your portfolio is down 30% over the last four months, as a retail investor you gotta say, I have no cash left to buy the dip. It's all just short term thinking
Ok so here's the thing, that few people are talking about, well they are. But saying costs for American consumers will go up, isn't really helpful, so let me break it down. First the easy one... coffee. America can't grow coffee it's just not possible to grow coffee there. So if America imposes say 25% tariffs on brasil for eg, guess what? Your $Starbucks(SBUX)$ coffee goes from $5 to $6.25, if you usually drink 5 cups a week as an American consumer that's going to cost you $6.25 extra every week. Going forward, you will be paying around 300 bucks more a year... just to get a week day coffee fix. Yes I'm oversimplifying, but that's just a cup of coffee people! Start looking at everything else That the USA can't physically produce due to climate, t
$Rocket Lab USA, Inc.(RKLB)$ If only i had more money to invest! When i started using tiger trade a year ago i began with some trades in the demo account to get the hang of the tiger platform. Out of the $100,000 Monopoly money tiger gives you i put $7,000 into rocket lab. Even though its dropped more than $10 per share from highs, that single holding is worth a wee bit more in a year. Dam i wish i had more money to invest. the total portfolio is now worth over $400,000. At one point it surpassed $600,000. This is actually sobering. The more you have on the table the larger the dollar value movement. This year will be a rocky ride for sure, while my real portfolio was small, its now significantly bigger. At first, it wasn't hard to deal with
Funny thing at the moment is the market is obsessed with macros, trump and musk. Rightfully so, but they are sooo obsessed that they seem to be ignoring very positive news from smaller caps like $Venture Global, Inc.(VG)$, $Redwire Corp.(RDW)$ and $Archer Aviation Inc.(ACHR)$ To name a few. All have dropped significantly in price but are all announcing significant positive growth initiatives that will impact profits positively going forward. I've always made my best investment decisions following the unfollowed. Often it takes months for the market to react. But eventually they do when quarterly reports come in and the market is totally surprised. It's amusing
Funny thing at the moment is the market is obsessed with macros, trump and musk. Rightfully so, but they are sooo obsessed that they seem to be ignoring very positive news from smaller caps like $Venture Global, Inc.(VG)$, $Redwire Corp.(RDW)$ and $Archer Aviation Inc.(ACHR)$ To name a few. All have dropped significantly in price but are all announcing significant positive growth initiatives that will impact profits positively going forward. I've always made my best investment decisions following the unfollowed. Often it takes months for the market to react. But eventually they do when quarterly reports come in and the market is totally surprised. It's amusing
$Palantir Technologies Inc.(PLTR)$ Ok so this common misconception that insiders selling is universally a bad thing really needs to be put into perspective. $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ yep insiders know what's coming, it's not pretty. So they are dumping, the headwinds are massive. I herd that elons stock is tied up with lawsuits so he can't sell, but just rumours. But it sounds reasonable, I bet he would be selling if he could. Cause Tesla is cannon fodder in my humble opinion. But palantir faces no headwinds, just huge tailwinds. Yes it's dam expensive. Insiders sell mainly because most of their salaries are in stock based compensation, so they need to sell, not because they want to. Everyone has bills t