2026 Week #5 Summary - Options Trading
January 2026 comes to an end with FIVE weeks of option trading. For the month, we made about $1350 from option trading (minus $144 from dividends).
We are "slightly" behind the quarterly average based on my historical trading pattern. I'm on target to hit between $4500 to $5000 in quarter 1 of 2026, based on the $1490 that I made for January.
I have been tracking my trading data since 2019, with 2020 being my first FULL year of data logged in a pivot table. Having over 28,000 rows of trades completed since 2019, I can use a pivot table to visualize the data. Here is what I see:
The data can tell you all the Good things that are happening and also tell you the BAD things that are happening. I can see which ticker is profitable and which one is not.
Let's take a closer look based on this pivot table:
The data is based on the ticker symbol and grouped by quarters. This is only option trading (no dividends in this table) data.
Riot is a Bitcoin mining company that adds about 350-400 Bitcoin per month to its balance sheet. This industry is also moving up because of some of the PARTNERSHIPS with AI data center demands. You can see I have all GREEN quarters trading RIOT. The option premium is higher than that of other boring dividend stock and this is a great company to trade around.
Visa is, on average, a good company to trade around. January 2026 was tricky because of the "10% one year Cap on Interest Rate" that Trump wants to sign into law. This caused the stock to drop, even after the good earnings released on Jan 29.
RTX has been a stable stock moving upward for the last 2 years. The reason why I been losing money is the ITM covered call, and I also lost on increased volatility that caused my CALL spread credit (selling) to be worth more.
SKX was a buyout at a price that was above my covered call's strike price. For me to exit that position, I just ended up closing the position and getting rid of the stock. I did make money since I followed SKX at under $40 a share.
