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Posted by Martin February 04, 2026

Tweaking my Growth stock trading rules

Tweaking my Growth stock trading rules

In this post about adding COIN to my growth stocks positions I described how I trade growth stocks. But lately I got stopped out fast from many positions I opened. Today’s market is sentiment driven rotation so far (out of tech stocks to defensive stock). This is possibly due to expectations about bad data coming Continue reading →

Posted by Martin February 02, 2026

Closing BTCI, opening BITI

Closing BTCI, opening BITI

Bitcoin has its bloodbath and we got stopped out from the long position BTCI this morning. Because the trend of Bitcoin is negative despite this morning attempt to bounce, I am opening a short Bitcoin position using BITI: I will be placing a stop loss on the new BITI position.  

Posted by Martin February 01, 2026

Market Outlook for 02/02/2026 – 02/06/2026

Market Outlook for 02/02/2026 - 02/06/2026

Here is my outlook for the market and some of my core positions for the week of February 2nd to February 6th. This outlook is pure technical view based on simple technical rules.   Last week, the markets reversed the pre-market decline and paired all losses. Then rallied on FED. We briefly topped 7,000 level Continue reading →

Posted by Martin January 27, 2026

Adding Coinbase (COIN) to growth portfolio

Adding Coinbase (COIN) to growth portfolio

In my spreadsheet, you can see growth trades based on AI screener. It is somewhat an experiment to me. That is why I keep positions extremely small. Here are the rules: If a stock shows on the screener list, I buy the symbol. I buy approximately equal dollar position to match others. After I buy, Continue reading →

Posted by Martin January 26, 2026

01/26/2026 New Trade – SPX Put Spread (WINNER)

01/26/2026 New Trade – SPX Put Spread (WINNER)

We are opening a new put spread this morning: Order Summary Sell to Open 1 SPX 01/30/2026 Put 6770 Buy to Open 1 SPX 01/30/2026 Put 6755 Limit GTC @ 1.05 Credit      

Posted by Martin January 25, 2026

Market Outlook for 01/26/2026 – 01/30/2026

Market Outlook for 01/26/2026 - 01/30/2026

Here is my outlook for the market and some of my core positions for the week of January 26th to January 30th. This outlook is pure technical view based on simple technical rules.   Our TACO is on it again. When he fucked everything and everyone up in Davos, embarrassed our country as no president Continue reading →

Posted by Martin January 21, 2026

TACO of the United States

TACO of the United States

Donald Trump, our TACO of the United States chickened out again. He no longer wants Greenland. He will no longer impose tariffs on the EU countries… As the moron in chief said, it is a long infinite process. Why the markets reacted to his announcement about tariffs in the first place? Didn’t investors already learned Continue reading →

Posted by Martin January 18, 2026

Market Outlook for 01/19/2026 – 01/23/2026

Market Outlook for 01/19/2026 - 01/23/2026

Here is my outlook for the market and some of my core positions for the week of January 19th to January 23rd. This outlook is pure technical view based on simple technical rules:   SPX – I trade options against SPX (and /ES futures) to generate income that can be invested into dividend stocks or Continue reading →