Week 71 / Selling NVDA Credit Spreads Ahead of Earnings Greetings from Capšu Zeme, aka our summer residence in Western Latvia. After spending about eight days in Riga, we finally made it back to our place. We’ve been working in the garden, harvesting cucumbers and blueberries, and even digging up some potatoes. Lovely. As of August 14, 2026, our stock portfolio closed at $13,606 , which is another…
Week 70 / Portfolio Cracks 13K While NVDA Tests My Options Strategy Greetings from Riga! What was meant to be a family holiday in Ireland somehow turned into… a family holiday in Riga. Nevertheless, against the odds and while sipping the local beer we keep pushing our stock portfolio to new highs. Which, to be fair, makes me a bit worried. New highs feel great, but history has a habit of reminding…
Week 69 / Options Portfolio Collects $102 as NVDA Remains the Main Risk As of July 31, 2026, the stock portfolio closed at $12,840 , down a modest 0.44% week over week . Not every week can be a victory lap, and this one was more about defending positions than celebrating gains. Despite the slight weekly decline, the longer-term picture remains encouraging. The portfolio is now up 24.46% year to…
Building a 1 DTE Ethereum Options Bot: Early Results, Design Choices, and Risk Considerations Since late April 2026, I have been developing and testing an automated trading system for selling one-day-to-expiration Ethereum put options on Bybit. The system is currently indicating an annualized return of approximately 23%. This result is encouraging, but it should be interpreted carefully. The…
Week 68 / NFLX Rebounds, NVDA Spread Opened, $67.91 Collected As of July 24, 2026, our stock portfolio closed at $12,897, gaining +1.63% week over week. The portfolio’s growth was significantly supported by the recovery in Netflix (NFLX), which finally closed above $70 after trading below that level for some time. In recent weeks, portfolio performance had been weighed down primarily by the…
Chateau Chapiteau in Georgia The last week of May turned into one of those spontaneous Georgian adventures that are difficult to plan but impossible to forget. It began after Renée returned from an overnight stay with her classmates at Hotel Kopala in Tskneti . We picked her up directly from the school bus and immediately headed east toward Lagodekhi with friends from the BIST community. Along the…
1 DTE ETH Options Trading Bot For Bybit Over the past several years, I have been building Terramatris , a small crypto hedge fund that relies heavily on options trading to generate income and manage exposure to Ethereum and other digital assets. The strategy has gone through many different phases. In the early days, we experimented with aggressive 1 DTE put selling, higher deltas, leveraged…
Using Bear Call Spreads to Offset Losses on a Troubled NFLX Put Position Options trades do not always follow the original plan. In May 2026, I opened a position in Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) by selling put credit spreads. The initial idea was straightforward: collect option premium while keeping the maximum loss defined through long protective puts. As NFLX weakened and the original spreads came…
Week 67 / $147.60 in Weekly Options Premium Despite Netflix’s 10% Earnings Drop As of July 17, 2026, our stock portfolio closed at $12,691, loosing -1.24% week over week. The loss came after Netflix’s earnings report, which sent NFLX shares down roughly 10% at one point. Although we hold only a small position in the stock itself, our longer-dated NFLX put option created a meaningful drag on the…
Week 66 / Dividend Stock Portfolio Up 25.79% YTD as I Add BAC and Stora Enso Options As of July 10, 2026, our dividend stock and options portfolio closed at $12,851, gaining 1.24% week over week. This week, I opened several new positions, despite saying over the past few weeks that I would probably avoid doing so. I reintroduced Bank of America stock to both the stock and options sides of the…