May 22 - What's happening with the Markets? 110K BTC.
- Gone Dark (Social Media) but still making investment moves
- 2025 New Direction: Pokémon
- Bitcoin New Highs
- Recent Option Trades
Gone Dark (Social Media) but still making investment moves
On average, I have only posted once a month for the last 3 months. One reason was that I spent more time creating content and explaining my investment moves for a minimal audience.
I create the content on InLeo/PeakD (platforms using HIVE) and then post it on Twitter/X to share my information with a wider audience.
One unique thing I do that most investors don't do is post my trades at the time I make them (not cherry-picking an open-closed transaction). This means you can see all my trades in near real-time (especially when I post on Twitter/X every day). I have data going back 5 years around my Options Positions, my Long Position, my Incoming Dividend, etc.
Here is what I will say:
- I am still making option trades (1000-1200 trades per year).
- I am still collecting dividends in 2025 - about $12K a year.
- I am in the middle of my plan of portfolio rebalancing, from LOW risk dividend to a HIGH risk holdings (Plan: 2024-2030).
- I am still playing #Splinterlands, #BigTime, #WorldOfWarships and a few others.
- I recently started learning about Pokémon Investing/Collecting (Feb 2025).
2025 New Direction: Pokémon
When my college-age son was a "little" kid a decade ago, I took him to the local library to learn how to play Pokémon Card Game with other little kids. It was fun to do something in person and not play a GAME on a DEVICE.
I remember that Darkrai Ex was the meta that year, with the card worth over $15+ and the full art card worth around $30-40. I can tell you that my son did not have a deck worth $200 or $300. Instead, I remember going with a cheaper deck using Kyogre. Back in 2013 (or so), I remember buying Full Art Kyorge Ex #114 for around $10-15.
Now let's go back to the future to 2025. Today, that card with a price around $80 raw in the last year or so has JUMPED to around $140.
I learned that getting a product at MSRP is very hard if you live in a large city with lots of collectors. I have never seen any product at Walmart, Target, Costco, or the like. An online retailer's website gets sold within seconds of the "RESTOCK".
So the only place I can get MSRP stuff is on the official Center website. They do a better job removing BOTS that buy all the products. Now, getting one product is never going to make you rich, but if you are collecting and holding for 5-10 years, it might still be a FUN hobby. I'm not looking for FLIP weekly.
My goal in 2025 is to:
- Start with only the Current MSRP products that I can buy from retailers.
- Stick to SEALED Sleeved Pack, SEALED Elite Trainer Box (ETB), SEALED PC ETB boxes.
- It might take me two or three years to learn the patterns of this industry.
- Learn as much as I can. See if I can spot where the opportunities are.
Bitcoin New Highs
On May 22, Bitcoin finally moved from $105K to 109 K. Then 110K. Now we are at 111K. This cycle has been slow because BITCOIN peaked before the halving, but the historical pattern of reaching its new ATH within 12-18 months after its last HALVING has been confirmed AGAIN today.
This is good news for all those who use or believe that past trends and patterns are used to form future predictions.
It's not too late to start a position in Bitcoin. Even if you are buying $25 or $50 a week or a month. You have to start somewhere. The key is to start. At that pace, it will TAKE 3 or more years to get to 1% of your net worth in bitcoin unless you have no other assets saved because you are under 30 years old (or you did not start planning for retirement yet).
Recent Option Trades
Here is what I captured from May 21 Option trades:
Here is what I captured from May 21 Option trades:
Here is my option tracker pivot data:
I track the data weekly using data from my brokerage acct. I dump all the raw data into an Excel sheet and pivot based on various fields like the type of Option Trade and date (weekly).