Week 35 / NVDA Spreads + McDonald’s Buys: Covered-Call Portfolio Hits $10,235
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As of December 5, 2025, our covered-call stock portfolio has grown by an additional 1.65% and reached $10,235. It’s genuinely exciting to be above $10K for the second week in a row.Still, I’ve been in the stock market too long to rule out a possible…
Mziuri Tennis Club in Tbilisi
| Living in Georgia | 55 seen
Our family has been attending Mziuri Tennis Club in Tbilisi since September 2025, after several recommendations from our BIST community. We signed up our 7-year-old for the junior program, which costs 300 GEL per month. After a few months of regular…
Week 34 / Covered Call Portfolio Breaks $10K and Beats the S&P 500
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As of November 28, 2025, our covered-call stock portfolio has surpassed the $10K milestone for the first time, closing at $10,069 — a weekly gain of +2.64% (+$269 versus last week). We reached the $10K mark a few weeks earlier than expected.As…
Week 33 / How We Earned $166 in Options Premium This Week with NVDA and BMY Credit Spreads
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As of November 21, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has slightly increased to $9,810, what is another minor weekly increase of +0.77% (+$74 if compared to the previous week. $10,000 feels so close. With disciplined risk management, we…
Week 32 / Weekly NVDA Options Income: $75 in Premiums and a 2.32% Portfolio Rise to $9,735
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As of November 14, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has slightly increased to to $9,735, what is a minor increase of +2.32% (+$220 if compared to the previous week. $10,000 feels within reach. With disciplined risk management, we should be…
Week 31 / NVDA Dip Trims Covered-Call Portfolio to $9,514
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As of November 7, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has slightly dipped to to $9,514, what is a minor decrease of -1.07% (+$102 if compared to the previous week. The dip is mainly due to the retracement in NVDA’s price and our need to adjust…
Building a Deribit Options Scanner with Python and Streamlit
| Servers | 124 seen
I’m still amazed at how capable ChatGPT has become - it’s honestly wild. Today I spent several hours refining and deploying a fully functional Deribit Options Scanner, and the results exceeded my expectations.This project is originally built for the…
Week 30 / NVDA, BMY and SHELL Options: $161 Premium, +4.65% Return
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As of October 31, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has grown to $9,617, what is a significant increase of +4.65% (+$426) if compared to the previous week. The strong performance in our portfolio was driven by a rebound in BMY’s share price and…
Week 29 / Tbilisi Silk Road Forum & Weekly Portfolio Update: NVDA Options Roll, McDonald’s Purchase
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As of October 23, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has grown to $9,190, what is a significant increase of +3.08% (+$272) if compared to the previous week. Besides our activities in the equity markets, last week I had the honor of…
Tsikhisdziri & Batumi Botanical Garden
| Living in Georgia | 67 seen
After returning from our amazing trip to Thessaloniki, we decided to extend our holiday a bit longer — this time in beautiful Tsikhisdziri. Huge thanks to Eto for kindly offering her cozy apartments at Bambo Beach, where we enjoyed a full week of…
Week 28 / NVDA Roll to 180/160; $66 Premium Collected
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As of October 17, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has dipped to $8,917, what is a decrease of -1.83% (-$166) if compared to the previous week. In our Terramatris crypto hedge fund, this week has been much rougher, with a sharp drop of more…
Unique newsreel footage of the Battle in the Courland Pocket. ‘The Baltic Verdun’ (1944–1945)
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Earlier today, YouTube unexpectedly recommended a Russian-language documentary titled “The Baltic Verdun (1944–1945)”, produced by Frontline Chronicles. The film presents rare archival footage from the Battle in the Courland Pocket, a series of…
Week 27 / 12 Years Blogging from Tbilisi: Beating the S&P 500 in 2025
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Greeting from Tbilisi, Georgia! Today is October 10, and it marks the 12th anniversary of my personal blog — wow, how time flies! For nearly a decade, I was very active in publishing daily content on almost everything: life in Georgia, restaurant…
Summer in Latvia 2025
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Summer in Latvia movie is out - Join us on our July (2025) journey through Latvia: installing a bathtub in our countryside cottage, setting up a pop-up store at Bangotnes, celebrating a birthday in Vērbeļnieki, traveling via Riga to Jaunpiebalga,…
Week 26 / NVDA Covered Call Roll Adds ~$300 in Six Months (Update)
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As of October 3, 2025, our covered call stock portfolio has reached $9,017, what is a decent increase of +2.38% (+$209) if compared to the previous week. While YTD, the portfolio is already up by +15.44%. Technically, we’re slightly outperforming…