Mindful Trader Commentary For May 16, 2025


Hey Guys,


The market dug out of its small hole yesterday and ended up the day green. Today, the S&P 500 is about where it ended yesterday.


My patience and dedication to sticking to the plan paid off with GSK. Those options yesterday went from being red in the morning to almost hitting the profit target by the time I manually closed the trade at the end of the day. That gives me 4 wins and 0 losses for my options account so far this month. It hasn't been a high volume of transactions, but each one has landed in the victory column.


In my stocks account, there was more of a mixed bag of outcomes. My BILI position gapped up and gave me an oversized profit, but my original PAGS position reached its stop loss. My GSK stock position reached its time limit, so I manually closed it and it ended up with a profit.


For that GSK stock position, I earned a dividend on it of 42 cents per share. Anyone who owned the stock last night and into this morning earned the dividend, and it will likely be automatically credited to your account at some point in the coming weeks.


I haven't taken on any new trades yet today. I have buy limit orders for the tickers at the top of the watch list. DD and UAL are a couple of the closest tickers, and I have buy limit orders for both the stocks and options.


If you have any questions or feedback, I'd love to hear from you.


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