I met a former investment banker once. He told me that the greatest asset is time, and it is important to hold long positions to make money. This is by far the best way to invest, and in unstable markets, I will be usually riding everything out, but sometimes, I will be buying stocks/ETF's etc that I will only be holding for short term, so I can still make money when the market is rough. 

 

 

​​Here are my main strategies at the moment:​​

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Right now, I am trying to diversify (spread out) my investments as my main strategy. I will be using a formula I created to analyze stocks along with other pieces of information from the stock to determine how overvalued or undervalued it is, and I will be selecting the strongest stock or stocks from each financial sector (section of the economy) to invest in. I will then spread out the money evenly across each stock (except for the risker ones--I'll invest less in those). My investments sector by sector are further down the page if I choose to use this strategy. I will reevaluate my investments in every sector after every earnings report.

The formula that I created to analyze stocks at a basic level is: (earnings per share in the last year ➗ share price) x (daily average volume ➗ short interest in shares). A higher result is better, and I noticed that a result of about 0.02 is decent. In the case of First Solar (a stock that I bought earlier--look below), I got a result from the formula of about 0.076 around the time I bought it. As you can see, the result from that was definitely there (37% in just a couple months while the S&P 500 only went up a couple percent). Also, I will be using some other metrics such as the debt-to-equity ratio (it measures how much debt the company is against how much they have in cash or things that can be turned into cash, so obviously you don't want a to invest in a stock with a ton of debt ) as well as analyzing the company's general future using news. 

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For short term trading, I have created my own strategy as well. I tested this strategy on Tradingview over past days of trading on at least 15 different stocks I think it's worked about 85% of the time so far. To explain how it works, I first have to explain candlestick charts. Stock charts are usually shown in a line that tracks the price over time, but candlestick charts show price changes over time intervals as well as the general changes over time. You can change the time interval on the individual candles from 1 minute to 5 minutes to even year and more. The skinny part of the candle (the wick) shows the highest and lowest the stock price reached over the interval. The thicker part (the body of the candle) shows where the price started at and where it ended at over the interval. The color of the candle (usually red or green) shows if the stock price went up or down during that time. Traders also switch between time periods often to notice certain patterns over time, such as fair value gaps (an imbalance in the price of a stock, but I highly recommend researching it a bit since it is too difficult to explain without diagrams and examples) or other chart movements that can signal a certain future move: liquidity sweeps, inverse fair value gaps, fair value gaps, trend lines, support, resistance, breakout, break of structure, etc (look up a list of technical analysis tools and patterns, and find ones that work for you, since everyone uses different ones, but I personally just use the ones I listed out here).

Now that you have an idea of how a candlestick chart works, here is the strategy that I created: the strategy is mainly for stock options but it can work for buying or shorting stock, but it just isn’t as profitable. My first step before actually using the strategy is picking a stock for the day. I choose a stock with a lot of news or not a lot of news depending on what's going on in the rest of the market (I'll explain the difference in strategy below). But for my strategy, I first make each candle 5 minutes long, and wait for the first candle of the day to be established. Using a drawing tool (again, I use Tradingview, which has a lot of helpful drawing tools) to draw out a horizontal line from the midpoint of the first candle. Then switch the chart so that each candle is 1 minute long, but keep the line. Move the candle horizontally so that it is anchored to the 5th 1 minute candle. Wait for the first candle in either direction in the 1 minute time frame to form (after the 5th one) and at some point during the day, the price will make a move (can be big or small and it could be in 5 minutes or in a couple hours) in that same direction above or below the line you drew out depending on if the 6th candle was up or down (a candle going up means a stock price move going up, and a candle going down means shows a later negative move). The move is separate from the move of the candle. For an example of a trade I would take, let's say that the 6th candle is down, but the stock price is $1.00 above the line you drew out. The stock price will then drop at least $1.00 to below the line you drew. Buy a call/put (depending on if the 6th candle was up or down) as close to the price at where that line is drawn out as possible, benefiting largely from the jump in price for the option when it goes from out of the money to in the money [Here's an example for a trade that I wouldn't take: let's say that the stock price is already above the line by $1.00 and the stock goes up in the 6th candle. The strategy is pretty unreliable from there. Also, read about out of the money vs. in the money on the options page]; hold the option for however long you want, but I sell my option after the stock makes the move that I expect and for signs for the price moving in the opposite direction start to show. If the stock price is staying right around the price that you drew the line at, it may not be worth it to take the trade (you might not make that much), but with bigger moves in price, the strategy is really helpful. Signs for the reversal can be shown from a range of chart patterns, but look at some of the ones I listed out right before this strategy. Also, once the stock moves in the way you're looking for, use the same drawing tool to mark out the high and the low of the first 5 minute candle. These lines act as support and resistance. Support and resistance are when there is a certain price level that the price struggles to get past, so it tends to bounce back in the opposite direction. For example, there may be a point of resistance at $35 when the stock is at $34.95. If the stock reaches $35, it is more likely than not that the stock price will drop back down. Support works the same way but for a price lower than the stock price. If the stock breaks through the support or resistance level, it may break out (have a big price move) past that level. Back to the resistance example, the price could surge all the way up to $35.25, depending on the stock and its beta (volatility measured relatively to the market; a beta higher than one is more volatile while a beta lower than one is less volatile, but a negative beta is a stock that moves in the opposite direction of the market). There also may be some fake breakouts too, which is why you should wait for the price to move a good bit first before taking your trade. So the high, the low, and the midpoint of the first 5 minute candles are each individual support and resistance levels depending on where the price is. For the strategy: don't get too greedy; just take your gains once the stock makes the move that you expect. Lastly, this strategy only works with stocks that trade with reason. Stocks that have a negative earnings per share (they are trading entirely off of hope for the future not even what they're actually worth right now), days when big news is released (since there are usually big price swings and a lot of trading without reason), or stocks that are involved in crypto (since it's always really volatile) are typically unreliable for this strategy. When there are big news days (for the whole market or for an individual stock), the market/stock will likely make a big move in a certain direction, so I take a different strategy. To find out the direction, mark out the high and low of the first 5 minute candle. Whichever direction the price breaks out to is the direction that the market will continue trending in for a while during the day. 

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Here is my current portfolio/updates:​

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I see that there is so much instability across the world right now that could cause the market to crash or shoot up at any moment, so I am investing in a couple of stocks that I believe will do well in the next year to two and are mostly unaffected by the world events.

 

1. I bought Wave Life Sciences (WVE). First, I bought some on January 23, then I bought some more on January 28. WVE edits genes, and it is planning to roll out two of its RNA drugs by the end of 2026, both of which look promising in trials. However, the stock has dropped about 20% in the last month, and I think that it can rebound if the drugs get approved. It also remains in a good financial position, with a few hundred million dollars in cash. 

 

2. I am holding Nexgen Energy (NXE). First, the US government is heavily supporting nuclear power. NXE  is beginning construction on a mine that may help the company supply about 20% of the world’s uranium within the next few years. So this is definitely a longer term play. The company is in debt as well, but with a debt to equity ratio of less than one, it is in a healthy place. Even though it will take a couple of years for the stock to become profitable, it is working on building its main rook I mine, and it has already secured US customers as well as negotiating in Europe, the US, and Asia. I bought some on January 23 and some more on January 30. ​​​​​​​​​​

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​Even though these stocks will take a bit of waiting to make some money on, I will still not be selling them. It is important to be able to ride out rough patches in the market. 

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Here are my past trades using my strategies:

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1. I bought NVIDIA (NVDA) on 10/22/25 at $177.40 a share. NVIDIA shares (and the whole market) was down quite a bit that day, and I thought that it would be a great time to buy NVIDIA ahead of its Washington DC conference from 10/27-10/29 where they would announce a lot of their new technology. This was a very good short-term buy, and I ended up selling my shares at $210.24 the morning of 10/29.​

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2. I invested in First Solar (FSLR) as a stock in the energy sector. According to a bunch of my research, solar power is one of the best energy sources for the future, so I decided to buy a solar power stock. Out of 10 of the largest solar power companies I analyzed, First Solar was the best stock to buy according to my formula. I bought it on 8/26/25 at $196.71 a share. I sold it on 11/05/25 at $269.78 a share, which is a 37% gain. 

 

3.  I invested in Vale (VALE) as a stock in the materials sector. Vale is a company based in South America, and it mines metals. Vale has super high earnings per share (the company's profits divided across each of the shares) considering how low its share price is. This is shown through the really low P/E (price to earnings) ratio, which is used to show how overvalued or undervalued a stock is, and Vale is undervalued. I bought it on 8/26/25 at $10.18 a share. I sold it on 11/05/25 at $12.14 a share, which is a 19% gain. 

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4. I invested in UPS (UPS) as a stock in the industrials sector. UPS delivers packages, and just like Vale, it has really high earnings per share for its stock price. I bought UPS on 8/26/25 at $87.40, and I sold it on 11/05/25 at $92.31, which is about a 5.5% gain. 

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5. I bought some Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) stock. It is a well-established pharmaceutical company that makes a variety of medicines, and its shares are trading way below where it should be. I bought it at $43.60 a share on 10/13/25, and I sold it on 11/05/25 at $45.97 a share, which is about a 5.5% gain. ​​​​

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6. Since the market is really unstable and tons of people are saying that the country could tumble into a recession at any point, I'm staying out of the market except for some day trading. I've been working on my technical analysis (using stock charts to find patterns and determine where the price will go), so I used that today on 11/25/25. I noticed that there was a lot of talk about Google's AI advancements, so I started looking into the stock in the morning. While I was looking at the chart, I saw a giant liquidity sweep (basically an institutional investor drives the price down to trigger people's stop loss orders and then later get the price to come back up). It's really helpful to look up a picture of what a liquidity sweep looks like to understand it better. I also like doing options trades in stocks with some of the highest volumes for the day, since it's when technical analysis works best. Anyways, there was a super sharp move down, so I bought some Google call options (hoping that the price will go up), and it went up a ton. At one point I was up about 40%, but I got a little greedy. Realistically, I should have just taken my gains since that is a super solid day. I put in a limit order where if it executed, I would have been up about 45%, but right then, the price of Google dropped back down, so it didn't reach the price of my limit order, and I only made about 10% on the day. 10% is still a great gain on the day, but in the world of options, it really is not that much because of how much option prices move. My option would have expired in a couple of days, and the liquidity sweep wouldn't have affected the price the day after.