u/Diligent-Plane-2640

I started this account with less than $50K a year ago.

Today it’s over $1 million.

And I did it without buying a single option.

It was not easy. There were times I bought stocks and instantly went red. There were periods where my account went nowhere for months. The biggest thing I learned is that conviction and patience matter more than people think.

58 days ago I posted when my account hit $523K.

191 days ago I posted when it hit $391K.

My first huge trade was SBET when Ethereum treasury companies were just becoming a thing. I went all in around $8 and watched it run to $40 (I sold at $26) That trade changed everything for me because it gave me enough capital to start making larger moves.

After that I traded names like AMZN, NVDA, COIN, SHOP, CRWD, and NET.

I shorted Rigetti near the highs.

I bought Coinbase aggressively in the $130s when Bitcoin sentiment was awful.

I bought CrowdStrike and Cloudflare after the Anthropic panic selloff.

One thing that genuinely helped me was creating trading plans with AI tools like ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity. Not for blind buy/sell signals, but to remove emotion.

I’ll ask questions like
“What’s the optimal profit taking strategy for this position?”
“What levels make sense to trim?”
“What are the biggest risks to my thesis?”

It helps stop panic selling and impulsive decisions.

I also spend a lot of time studying fundamentals. Finviz is great for this (and free). Learn why one company trades at a premium to another. Look at:
Revenue growth
Margins
PE ratios
Price to sales
Competitive advantages
Market narratives

Another thing I force myself to do before entering a large position is write a bull and bear case for the stock.

No impulse buying.

That process alone has saved me a massive amount of money because by the time I finish the research, the stock is often at a better entry anyway.

Patience is underrated.

If a stock is at $600 and you want it at $550, wait. There will always be another trade.

I prefer margin over options because there’s no time decay. If I’m up huge on shares, I’ll sometimes sell covered calls and collect premium, but I don’t buy options outright.

Also
You do not need to marry a stock.

Scale out when you’re up big. Take profits. Don’t round trip massive gains unless your conviction is extremely high.

Most importantly, challenge your own opinions.

Don’t just look for confirmation bias. Read Reddit. Read X. Watch YouTube videos. Find smart people who disagree with you.

That’s how you improve.

I’m proud to have gone from $50K to over $1 million trading mostly shares. If you’re obsessed with markets and willing to put in the work, crazy things are possible.

Either I’m a genius or the margin call is coming soon.

Current positions

FIG: 50,185 shares @ $16.82

NVDA: 4,453 shares @ $196.31

SHOP: 152 shares @ $105.52

Figma is too good of a product to still have 25% of the shares short, even after the move off the bottom.

Earnings are next Thursday. I expect a beat and a reacceleration in revenue growth, driven by token sales from Figma Make.

I think the market is underestimating this. They’re emerging as a meaningful token seller, a tier below players like Anthropic and OpenAi

My Position is 50,185 shares at $16.82

Short interest increased to over 25% today.

They never learn. Earnings are in 2 weeks. Added at my average this morning. The suits are wrong about Figma and they are about to soon find out the hard way.

My position is 50,185 shares at 16.82 average.

Bought more $FIG

25% short interest and earnings are in 2 weeks.

My position is 50,003 shares at 16.82

Most people are chasing hardware stocks right now and I get why… but what if I told you there was a software stock that is going to benefit from selling tokens more than almost any other one?

That company is Figma $FIG and one of the most interesting parts is the CEO Dylan Field’s post-IPO compensation structure. It’s one of the more ambitious performance based equity packages in recent tech history. It’s very similar to Elon Musks.

He has ~14.5M shares tied to performance, split into 7 tranches, and they only vest if Figma’s stock hits specific price targets over a 10-year window (based on a 60-day average price).

For example:

At around $60/share, he unlocks roughly $130M in value

At around $130/share (~+54% from IPO levels), it scales up to about $1.9B

80%+ of the S&P 500 uses Figma. It basically has the highest retention rate out of any SaaS company.

They accelerated revenue growth to 40%+ YOY

They have 1.7B cash and investments

There’s also 20% short interest on the stock right now

They have a product called Figma make that rivals Anthropics Claude. They just started enforcing the token limit and this is going to be a totally new revenue stream for them INCREASING revenue growth and making them one of the largest SELLER of tokens. This is something nobody talks about. Figma has many pillars to pull on that are currently (free) that can increase revenue streams in the future.

Figma is used by retail and commercial companies.

This is a unique blend for an ai product. Most are one, or the other. Not both

Figma is the most impressive application I’ve ever used. Collaboration in live time is a growing theme that is just going to get bigger and bigger. This improves efficiency when the designer/developer/ceo can work in live time together.

Ultimately for $16-17 a share you can buy the leader in design. I don’t think you can vibe code Figma with ai. Figma is an ai winner

With an 8x price to sales and revenue growth of 40% this is a pretty rare occurrence

I think this is going to be a $100 stock one day. I think Dylan fields is incentivized to hit those price targets. Sentiment will swing when they crush earnings.

See you on the moon or at Wendy’s soon.

My position is $FIG 47,644 shares at $17.22