$1,100 realized profit in December 2025
- themoneyloaf
- Jan 8
- 4 min read
Happy 2026!
Before sharing December's update, I wanted to share a top level view of this portfolio in 2025.
Overall I entered 52 trades in 2025 and I'm ending the year with 3 open trades. All other trades were closed for a profit.
The oldest position in this portfolio was opened just 2 weeks ago on 23 December 2025, and it's only being carried over to 2026 because it's so new.
All other trades entered before that in 2025 were closed for a profit.
That's 49 or 94% of trades closed for a profit, zero realized losses and zero liquidation events. I think the portfolio went through the year without any assignments, which is a pretty big achievement considering all the volatility we had in Q2.
By the way this only counts the “official” trades and not the bonus trades, which have also been closed for a profit (except a few which are still open).
Overall I'm really happy with the portfolio this year. My goal has never been to make huge profits, but rather to utilize my system to produce consistent and sustainable cash flow in all types of market conditions, especially bad ones.
On that front the system and portfolio did exceptionally well in 2025. 40% of my overall profits came from just 3 months in April, May, and June, amidst the tariff volatility.
The strategy doesn't just work in turbulent times, in fact it thrives (if you follow the risk management guidelines).
Anecdotally from emails and DMs, I know that people who have taken my course and learnt my strategy remained pretty safe in 2025 (with a few assignments), but even then it was nothing that they couldn't get out of.
2026 will be the 13th year of my options trading journey and I'm quietly confident that it'll be another good year for this income stream and every day I'm thankful I took the leap in 2013 to pick up this method of making money.
For the update this week:
$1,100 realized profit across 7 trades in December
$1,100 profit in December
Stats for December:
Starting open trades: 6
New trades: 6
Trades closed for profit: 6
Ending open trades: 6
Trades ending in losses: 0
Margin calls or liquidation events: 0
New trades in December:
Older trades:
With December done, here's the running total of realized profits since the course's inception:
Year One (Sep 2022 - Aug 2023) - $3,422
Year Two (Sep 2023 - Aug 2024) - $6,292
Year Three (Sep 2024 - Aug 2025) - $9,833
Sep 2025 - $622
Oct 2025 - $412
Nov 2025 - $982
Dec 2025 - $1,100
This brings the total for the last 40 months to a realized profit of $22,663 or a running monthly average of $566.
If you're familiar with options and want to follow along the trade updates, you can join my private community which is priced at $49/month.
i.e. on average, each month you would pay $49 and potentially make $566, or 11.5x the subscription fee.
Every trade I share is from my real portfolio, which means if the trade isn't making money, I'm not making money either.
Do note none of these are recommendations - I'm just sharing trade updates within my own portfolio which may or may not be right for you.
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Closing thoughts & useful links
It's good to be back writing the newsletter and December was a really good month, capitalizing on a slightly volatile November.
I don't know if we're going to enjoy as much volatility in 2026, but I'm definitely looking forward to making new trades and getting that cash flow going.
Have a good weekend!
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