Each week, I collect my trade data from my brokerage and I copy that into an Excel Sheet. Then I add a few columns that I need to create the datapoint for that trade.
I'm up to 25K rows of trades (over the last 5 years).
The last step is to pivot the data and see what happens for that week, month, quarter, and year.
Week 27 spans two quarters and two months. This is why the data looks like this on a pivot table (since I track the data by trade date, which can infer the month and quarter).
So far, the option/dividend returns are about 11K. If you minus the DIVIDEND (-$5300), that still leaves you $5800 from options trading. So far, I'm happy with my results for the year (2025). If I can keep this up, I will end up with double the value (~20K) by December 2025.
However, there is one thing that has been working against me since 2024. I've been selling about 10K of dividend stocks that I get and using that cash into QQQM, IBIT, CAVA, WING. The purpose of that was to do some portfolio rebalancing. If I kept on reinvesting the dividends, I would have been getting more and more exposure to "BORING Dividend Stocks".
When I first started the rebalancing, it was mostly selling the "actual" dividend paid. However, I have been selling about 10%-20% more or getting it close to "round lot" for option trading (covered calls). This means that my dividend will not be GROWING, but more likely getting smaller over time, even if you factor in dividend increases in the future. I was fine with the trade-off, since I was moving my 'CASH' into higher-growth stock holdings (like #QQQM and #BITCOIN).
This view will show the historical pattern of LFUS/MARA/MET/MRVL over the last 2 years. The data is on a different tab using a PIVOT table. This helps me find tickers that are working and which ones I'm not making money from via Option Trading.
Q3-2025 is only 3 "Trading Days" of data.
Next is to zoom into the DETAIL (daily trade) data. Looking at this will show how my pivot table data is created.
Here are the last several weeks of trades around LFUS:
Here are the last several weeks of trades around MARA:
Here are the last several weeks of trades around MRVL:
Showing people what I'm buying is not about "Flexing" but rather it's around "transparency". People like to know when I got into a position or when I exited a position. I have publicly said that I only put in about 8K in new capital each year, and that goes into my 401K plan.
This portfolio gets none of that NEW #CASH infusion, but rather it requires me to "#SELL" something before I can #BUY something. Meaning that I have to trade one STOCK for another.
You can see that I am selling Ford (F), Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Gilead (GILD), Visa (V), and a few others.
Just because I'm selling does not ALWAYS mean that the stock is bad. VISA will continue to grow over 12% a year, but it has become too LARGE of a holding, so I needed to sell VISA. That is why you see me buying a Mastercard recently. Also, I'm not going to post everything for the last six months in this post. If you want, you need to read and follow me as I post weekly (and sometimes within the HOUR) of my trades.
My goal has always been to prove to people that they are real traders who post their TRADES as they are making them. I don't post only winning trades, but rather when I make them. I have posted them on Twitter and Facebook for the last several years. In options trading, I believe the % of winning traders is between 20%-30%, meaning that more of them are losing money. This is true with people selling a "system" around trading. If I can make money trading, I don't need to sell anything.
Looking forward to Q3, and I'll keep an eye on Bitcoin. I don't know when, but it looks like it wants to head to 150K. I'm starting to believe that we will not see a 70% correction anymore, and that 20-40% might be the new normal. This means that BITCOIN will become an easier investment to hold in a portfolio and not sell as the price drops.
One dollar at a time!
Solving-Chaos
