$5k Investment NOW - Let's Beat the Covid Blues w/investment fun

And not such a good day today...lol. I made 2 winning day trades on AAPL calls (+16.6%) and NFLX puts (+23.5%) but my swing trades that I'm holding onto are taking a beating today. Both accounts red today even with my 2 day trade wins. BTW-paid 3.40/contract for NFLX ($340 each) and sold them for 4.20. Now they are at $15.40 each. Could have made about 400% if I had held. The sad part is I still haven't got an exit signal so if I was more disciplined I would still be in them...ugh. Oh well
 
So that pullback hurt but I'm still up overall the last few weeks. Bought DKNG calls 8/19 at 5.70 and sold today for 9.50 for 67% profit. My only other longer term hold now id SBUX calls I bought the other day. Still about even on those ones but they expire in November so I have time and they are in a pretty good spot right now. Daytraded NKE today but stopped out for a small loss but then got back in for a nice win.

To be fair I pick my own trades for my daytrade account but use alerts from optionalarm.com for my longer holds. I do trade some of my own in that account too but my daytrade account is all my picks
 
Listening to BNN news this morning, it strikes me that investment “analysts” they have on don’t actually say anything. They make a statement like “Its important to select investments that balance the long term sustained economic risk of COVID on the markets, with short term optimism that exists today.” Then when asked for what sectors represent opportunities the answer is more double-speak investment jargon and BS. Its like listening to a political debate. By the way, I don’t get investment advice from BNN. You just have to listen to it between the segments on market movements and actual news.
 
DAL 42.05
BA 229.49
ROKU 320.00
BRKB 224.68
INO 10.82
AA 22.17
ZM 397.90
DIS 173.93
HTZ 1.63
MGM 30.84
RCL 74.06
NCLH 25.18
 
Pre-Christmas Update:

@370Dancer is kicking our butts at $21k upside. @Jimmy Buoy has made up a little ground since our last update but still holds the bottom spot. Shocking to me that only one of us is in the red!

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Pre-Christmas Update:

@370Dancer is kicking our butts at $21k upside. @Jimmy Buoy has made up a little ground since our last update but still holds the bottom spot. Shocking to me that only one of us is in the red!

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I spread my 5K around several investments, here are the runners:

BA 14 shares @ $149.29 worth $221.78 each; gain of $1,014.78 48.55%
HAL 100 shares @ 6.69 now worth 20.11 each; gain of $1351.16 200.46%
MGM 10 shares @ 13.25 now worth $30.98 each; gain of $177.35 133.83%
UPS 9 shares @ $105.65 now worth $173.92; gain of $630.50 63.47%
 
We purchased AMC at 4 something back in April, 2,000 shares, it fell to 2 something for the longest time, but now it's 19.88 (just increased today 300.00%) something a share... I want to cash out take the money and run, but the wife wants to either stay, or cash out and move to another investment...
 
ON the other hand, we chickened out on NCLH, it fell below our purchase price, and as soon it made it back we sold, so just a tiny gain...
 
We purchased AMC at 4 something back in April, 2,000 shares, it fell to 2 something for the longest time, but now it's 19.88 (just increased today 300.00%) something a share... I want to cash out take the money and run, but the wife wants to either stay, or cash out and move to another investment...
Run forest run.
 
I'm having a pretty good week here. This morning I was down almost $800 but I made a few day trades and closed the day up $575. I bought QQQ puts right before close today mostly as a hedge but I'm anticipating a pullback here. Hopefully we get a big gap down overnight then bounce right back. I'll be looking for entries if I see them.

Puts are fun to trade cause the market typically drops 3x as fast as it goes up.
 
Sold AMC, 2K shares at 14.23 yesterday, just under 8$/share profit (we bought at 4 earlier, sold at 6, ended up buying more at 6.50 (or so, a few weeks later back in mid 2020, if I recall...) if it goes to 2, I’ll buy again. I think customers (maybe not all) will go back to the movies once COVID declines, and the shares will rebound, to 13 or so. Our AMC theater here is renovating with better seats, more dining, beverages/beer/liquor.
 

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