Wednesday, July 23, 2025 -- $217,359.86 (+$199,528.39, +1,118.97%)

 Wednesday, July 23, 2025 -- $217,359.86 (+$199,528.39, +1,118.97%)




Nearly three years have passed since my last update—and those years nearly wiped me out.  Please note that the gains and percentage gains shown are since the last blog entry, which was almost three years ago!

Life got busy, and chronicling my portfolio blunders became exhausting. I hit rock bottom on May Day, 2024 (May 1st), when my account dropped below $8,500. From a starting point of $100,000, that loss was devastating—though not surprising, given my insatiable risk appetite.

One of my many flaws is that when things go badly, I shut down.  I lose motivation.  And I definitely don’t want to broadcast my failures to the world.  That mindset clashes with the whole idea of an honest, for-better-or-worse investing blog.  So I failed miserably, hid under a rock, and didn’t come out until things got better.

Things did turn around, but not thanks to any skill or strategy.  Just dumb luck.  May 1, 2024, marked my absolute low.  Given my investment style, the portfolio could just as easily have dropped another 95% instead of surging 2,000%.

Let this serve as a warning:  this kind of investing is a coin toss with your financial future.  I got lucky this time, but that odds are, neither of us will be that lucky again.  This is still a Go For Broke blog, because I’m still chasing absurd risks, but do not attempt this at home!





















My current portfolio is:

Options
01/15/2027 FBTC $80 Call -- 20 Contracts -- $40.10 cost, $38.75 current price

Stocks
QBTS -- 10,000 shares -- $7.89 cost, $20.34 current price
INOD -- 1,000 shares -- $43.95 cost, $47.86 current price
AMC -- 3.17 shares -- $41.20 cost, $3.48 current price

Just in case you want to see detail on everything I did since my prior post on October 7, 2022, here is a RobinHood history.  If you are dedicated you can see that I dabbled in SPY, GWH, AMC, DNA, NXDR, PLTR, NVDA, BITX, SOUN, HLT, QBTS, AMD, INOD, and FBTC.  I also tried, with little success event "investments"--codeword for RobinHood's foray into betting, sports and otherwise.




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