A person who had only $150 in an account turned it into $120,000 in five months, an 800x increase. Last December, he had already lost about $6,000 down to just $150, and finally used all that money to buy SPY same-day expiration options, first turning $150 into $300, then continuing to $1,500. A weekly option before December 24 turned $1,500 into $3,000, then silver options pushed the account to about $6,000, and Google call options brought it up to $18,000. After Google pulled back, the account once dropped back to $12,000. He slowly recovered using ONDS, NBIS, SMCI, TE, EOSE, silver and gold options, and Micron finally pushed the $18,000 to $30,000. After the funds grew, he no longer frequently traded SPY same-day expiration options, mainly switching to buying options on stocks with about 30 days to expiration that were trending upward, avoiding reversals and bottom-fishing, and rarely buying put options. These positions were held for about four days on average, considering exiting when profits approached 100%, and selling regardless of profit or loss when only 14 days remained until expiration. He occasionally still held positions through volatility; one CRDO call option once had an unrealized loss of 80%, but was eventually sold for a 60% profit. At the time of posting, his account was about $120,000, having withdrawn about $15,000 during the period, with an estimated realized profit close to $130,000. $BTC

If your broken computer is turned on and you find 50,000 bitcoins bought in 2010. In 2010, 50,000 bitcoins couldn't even buy a toilet in a Beijing Second Ring Road courtyard house. Three years later, it could buy 7 units of 300 square meters each; in 2017, it could buy 83 units; in 2021, 217 units; at the price peak in 2025, these 50,000 bitcoins would be worth over 45 billion yuan, theoretically enough to buy several hundred units. You could become a landlord.. $BTC

Rare old photo of Buffett, turns out he was so wild when he was young, even wearing a mink coat. $SPCX

South Korean stock investors have already started borrowing money online. One investor posted that he has already lost 400 million KRW and has now put his entire 230 million KRW account into SK Hynix. Of this 230 million KRW, 140 million is temporarily advanced by the brokerage for stock purchases. If he cannot gather the funds within two days, the brokerage will forcibly sell the stocks at the opening of the third trading day. He asked if any netizens were willing to lend money, promising to give the lender 10 million KRW as a reward once the stock price recovers and he sells. The post was later deleted. On July 18, he showed his account holding only SK Hynix, with an unrealized loss of 32.38 million KRW and a return rate of -13.89%. In subsequent account screenshots, SK Hynix had disappeared, and the account was 100% invested in the Korean pharmaceutical company Sam Chun Dang Pharmaceutical. The media inferred that the previous position was likely forcibly liquidated. Sam Chun Dang Pharmaceutical had just hit the daily limit up the day before, then directly hit the daily limit down the next day, dropping 29.92% in a single day. $SPCX

Breaking news, SpaceX has secured a $1.6 billion contract from the U.S. Space Force to carry out 18 military satellite launch missions using Falcon 9. These satellites are reportedly intended for detection, continuous tracking, and providing target data to combat systems. If the contract amount is accurate, the average value per mission is about $89.9 million. Moreover, SpaceX has previously won a $4.16 billion contract for a space-based target tracking system and a $2.29 billion contract for a military space data network. It is transforming from a pure rocket carrier into a full-chain defense contractor that controls satellite manufacturing, target sensing, military data transmission, and orbital launches. $SPCX Awesome!

An individual retail investor initially entered the market with $8,000 and accumulated about $1.97 million in profits after seven years. In the first two years, he engaged in short-term trading during the pandemic market and Meme stocks. With $8,000 plus a $44,000 home equity loan, totaling $52,000, he first grew it to $200,000, then reached a peak of $368,000. He set aside money for taxes, stopped frequent short-term trading, and invested almost all remaining funds into British aircraft engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce, ticker symbol RYCEY. At that time, RYCEY had fallen from about $10 pre-pandemic to around $1.5. He believed the UK government would not let the company fail, and even if it took ten years, the stock price might return to $10. From 2021 to 2025, 99% of his holdings were concentrated in RYCEY, with a peak holding of over 130,000 shares. In 2024, he began selling in batches between $16.5 and $18.5, and fully exited by 2026. $SPCX

After turning $35,000 into $10 million, Kevin Xu decided to try again. He opened another $35,000 challenge account, which once rose close to $100,000, then fell back to the starting point, and is now about $45,000. In his previous round starting from January 2020, he only invested in one stock at a time within his retirement account, without using margin or options. He usually sold a stock after it rose about 20%, then switched to the next one. His largest profit came from Big 5 Sporting Goods. He invested about $6 million and at one point held nearly 1% of the company’s shares, ultimately earning about $1.7 million. The most volatile was Rocket Companies, where the account gained about $1.2 million in one day, then gave back about $1 million the next day. He also bought GameStop early on. In October 2020, he bought 88,233 shares around $13 and sold them in December at $15.50. When the short squeeze started a month later, he estimated that if he had held until the peak, he might have made $30 to $40 million, but that is just a missed hypothetical gain. The old account is currently about $11 million, most of which has been transferred into S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 index funds. The new challenge account later invested in drone company Red Cat and also bought an ETF that tracks its price movement at twice the rate. These trades caused the account to fall from nearly $100,000 back to about $35,000, and now it has returned to $45,000. $SPCX

Mr. Lü, a Korean chef, was showing a doubled account balance last month, but this month he only has $30,000 left. This month, he invested about $81,700 into the ACE SK Hynix single-stock leveraged ETF, buying a total of 3,317 shares at an average price of approximately $24.64 each. Now each share is only worth about $9.51, a floating loss of 61.38%, equivalent to about $50,200. Mr. Lü previously won first place in a Korean live trading competition, with the prize being a car. A month ago, he also bought 9,000 shares of Samsung E&A, investing about $162,700, with a return exceeding 100%. This time, he bought the SK Hynix shares near their peak, purchasing a single-stock 2x leveraged ETF. This product tracks SK Hynix's daily price changes, so if the stock drops 5% in a day, the ETF aims to drop nearly 10%. Even if the stock rebounds the next day, the calculation restarts from the already reduced principal, and after continuous fluctuations, it’s difficult to simply return to the original point. Currently, these 3,317 shares have not been sold, the realized profit and loss for the month is still zero, and the approximately $50,200 remains entirely as an unrealized loss. $SKHYNIX