No Trades, Real Gains - Starting Over With $10,000 | Week 5

This week delivered the famous “Santa Claus rally” for the stock market, but for many investors the gains felt underwhelming compared to the hype. For our highly leveraged 10K portfolio, though, it was a quietly powerful stretch that did exactly what it was built to do. With no new trades and no forced action, the account took a modest market move and squeezed real performance out of it, thanks largely to our core leveraged exposure. The headline winner was NVDA, whose strong move drove outsized gains in our leveraged position, while an unsuspecting hero emerged in the AMZN call, shrinking its drawdown from a 22% deficit to roughly -10%. A week that most investors would ignore as “boring” is exactly the kind of week we’re going to celebrate.