2026/2/5 A brief recap

Overall it was a brutal day, but the silver lining was that these two days were saved by Apple $Apple(AAPL.US) and Buffett $Berkshire Hathaway B(BRK.B.US).

$Amazon(AMZN.US) unexpectedly reached 232 in the late night. It hit an extremely strong support level. I basically maxed out my position around 238 🤣🤣 After seeing Google's earnings report, I'm not sure about AMZN's earnings anymore, mainly watching the market reaction and interpretation.

$Broadcom(AVGO.US) was mainly dragged down by the broader market and semiconductor sector. After-hours Google earnings report, it rose - let's see how it performs tonight. The night before last I sold 2/3 of my $Apple(AAPL.US) position to add to this, which hurt me pretty bad. Missed most of AAPL's gains. Who would've thought it could drop to 295 in the late night. 306 was already low enough. Hope the semiconductor sector can recover - Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, ARM have all been weak. Bought an expiration option the day before yesterday, lost $1000 and cut losses last night.

Lessons learned:

1. Today I saw someone's Tesla expiration call go from hundreds of thousands to just hundreds - very mixed feelings. My personal rule was to only play with expiration options using max 5% position. Sometimes didn't follow this well. Options shouldn't be all-in on one stock, especially not expiration options. The only options calls suitable for us are those following major trends - long calls or LEAPS calls.

2. My position sizing and timing for adding positions these past few days still wasn't good enough. Didn't scale in gradually at predetermined price levels, but rather fired all bullets at what I thought was the psychological price point. Like Broadcom all around 325, AMZN all at 235-238. Didn't reserve bullets for Broadcom at 310/300 or AMZN at 232/228. Need to reflect on the motivation and execution behind these trades. Probably too eager to buy at lows without considering the market might go even lower.