Last 4 months of selling Options - USD $6294.76 earned, not sure how long this will last before I get assigned

I have been selling cash secured puts the last 4 months since mid March 2026. So far, it has been profitable as we had a upwards market and so prices have been on an upward trend meaning that the cash secured puts would be safe and usually profit after a few days as prices would go up. Which translates to me being able to close it earlier at a profit and opening a new position. You can definitely see that in May, I close and opened new positions practically every week in May as the market was just hitting new highs but June, it slowed as we saw some weakness in the market. 

However, as we end June 2026 and Micron's earning is coming out later, the market has been experiencing some weakness, due to various reasons, eg Warsh not providing any forward guidance, Banks predicting some rate hikes this year, some profit taking and Korea markets experiencing quite a drawdown as we see individuals taking on leverage and dumping all their money in as their stock market experiences one of the largest growth ever mainly due to Samsung and SK Hynix. 

Depending on how Micron's earnings is, it could dictate the market direction too as some profit taking can be seen and it seems this earnings will help solidify the memory play that has been a base for the AI story. Well, we shall see. 

Here are my profits for the past few months, I sold CSP on various stocks and mostly on those that I don't mind having in my portfolio if assigned. 

I didn't managed to catch onto the explosive memory gains like Micron, Sandisk and other semiconductors but did managed to get some spare change from selling options. For those who bought the names that exploded and held on, congratulations! Even if I had Micron, I think I would have sold it way before it hit $1000 and I would be kicking myself. Anyway, it really takes conviction to hold on and hoping the earnings goes well later. In the meantime, I will continue to sell options and update on my journey. I am currently using about 7% of my portfolio to do these cash secured puts. I don't want this to be more than 10% so I have reinvested some of the earning back. I am mostly buying index ETFs. 

Portfolio Update in June - Liquidated my REITs Portfolio in March 2026 and added it to the US market

My stocks portfolio has hit all time highs, not cos of Tesla (little bit of contribution) nor IBIT/Bitcoin but mostly because of QQQ and CSPX. I am quite surprised that QQQ is the one that helped propel the value of the stock portfolio because I thought it would be Tesla (a little growth) or IBIT, but IBIT has been disappointing as crypto goes into one of it dark times where no one is even bothering talking about it and even pivoting to AI so the downwards trend sees no support. 

QQQ is a substantial portion of my portfolio and I am adding to it as well. Other than that, I added some Nokia position, in terms of long term calls and a small stock position. Photonics have been popping up on my twitter feed, I added COHR in May 2026, it is in profit but wow, the volatility of photonics stocks are crazy, I can see stocks like LITE, AAOI, AEHR, AXTI go up like 20% and drop 20% in a day. So I do cash secured puts on them, particularly AEHR and AXTI so far and have earned pretty good premiums without being assigned, if assigned, I will sell covered calls on them. 

I liquidated my REITs portfolio in March 2026 as it was really a laggard compared to the rest of my portfolio, wasn't a big position, about $8000 so I reinvested it in the US market. I think I will reconsider REITs once I am older or when my portfolio crosses a certain amount. 

It was a volatile quarter but most days were green compared to red. It is nice chasing the highs and when ever I bought some thing, it was in profit. Feels a little surreal and dangerous so I do find that putting aside some cash while doing my DCA is a good precaution eg when AVGO released their earnings, missed top-line revenue estimates and issued guidance that failed to outpace soaring AI market expectations then the market reacted and it was a good buying opportunity although it was short-lived. 

My portfolio has not seen the huge and crazy growth as I do not hold much semiconductors and so nothing too exciting. Seems like a great area to add more bitcoin and maybe do some short term trades. 

Crypto portfolio disappointing results as it drops back to previous prices or maybe lower as 2024 and 2025. Not too much action here as crypto money pivots to AI stocks and more exciting areas, it might continue, this draining but well, we will wait and see. I will accumulate some position slowly and see how it goes. Hopefully Bitcoin can go back to above $100,000 but so far not so many positive catalysts. 

Stock portfolio reached an all time high so far as I injected some funds in and the growth of QQQ really helps. At this point, I can see the efforts of compounding much stronger than when my portfolio was at a lower value. Of course, some are saying that the market is exceptionally high and seems it's time for a correction especially since the US-Iran war has not ended, CPI is high and the world just doesn't look like it should be an all time high in the stock market but well, we shall see if it can hold and continue up or a correction is due. 

Total portfolio is not at all time high so just continuing my monthly DCA and hoping for some miracle in crypto haha. Time flies and we are concluding the first half of 2026 soon, well, hoping that 2nd half of 2026 brings more peace in the world.