Friday, October 3, 2025, -- $589,191.02 (+$34,914.67, +6.30%)

Friday, October 3, 2025, -- $589,191.02 (+$34,914.67, +6.30%)

This was another day capping a spectacular week (+54.71%) and month (+361.63%). The saying "15 minutes of fame" refers to a brief, brilliant moment of success that almost everyone experiences sometime in their life.  This past month was likely this portfolio's 15 minutes of fame—a performance unlikely to be repeated, at least not while its value is over $10,000.  Here is the graph for the past month:



We human beings have a habit of normalizing our situation, perhaps because we are so adaptable.  That situation may be great or may be terrible, but we adapt.  As a result, a positive change in a poor situation may inspire joy in us and a negative change in a great situation may cause us angst and depression.  This feeling carries into investing.  While a month ago, when the portfolio was sitting just over $127,000, I would have been ecstatic to finish the year at $250,000.  Now, given the portfolio's dramatic increase, I would be depressed.

I started the day with just over $10,000 in margin purchasing power and sold the 400 INTC shares for $37.80 each so that I could purchase 75 PATH 11/21 $12 call options for $1.67 per share.  This gives me the right to pay $12.00 for 7,500 shares of PATH up through 11/21.  As the portfolio above indicates, this position is losing money.  My 27 QBTS 10/03 $23 call options expired today and because I did not have sufficient buying power, Robinhood, on its own, and without notifying me, sold those contracts for $10.14 per share.  My net gain on those options was about $22,302!  In addition, even though I think that PLTR is overvalued, I purchased 300 shares of PLTR after the close because it just felt like it fell too far today and will recover next week.  Here are my trades from today:





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