In 2025, Robinhood (HOOD) was a textbook bull run: it rallied from an intrayear low of $29 to a peak of $153, up more than 5x. On top of that, the crypto market was red-hot—Bitcoin broke above $120,000—which gave many people a kind of “crypto conviction,” and that conviction spilled over into Robinhood as well.
But after the New Year, as Bitcoin sold off sharply for multiple sessions in a row, HOOD also suff...

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2026 has just arrived! Welcome back to our monthly Moo Leaderboards!
In January 2026, precious metals experienced significant volatility that many mooers navigated together in our community. We’ve seen some fresh new faces climb onto our January Moo Leaderboards  — many of them are super active mooers in discussing and sharing strategies in precious metals. And, of course, some of our old friends are still here, saying h...

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U.S. stock had a turbulent week (Feb 2–6, 2026), finishing with a powerful Friday rebound. The Dow hit fresh records and briefly cleared 50,000, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq rallied sharply into the close—yet the week still showed rotation: Dow outperformed as parts of mega-cap tech stayed under pressure after several down sessions.
Macro...

In the previous post, we discussed using long puts for deep hedging. But as mentioned, the scenarios that truly call for long-put hedges are typically panic-driven sell-offs—they don’t happen that often. Statistically, over the past ten years, they’ve occurred about once per year on average, and in some years they don’t occur at all.
By contrast, milder, more contained pullbacks happen many times every year. These ty...

In the previous episode, we covered the first—and most important—way to deal with drawdowns: cutting exposure. As a quick recap, what are the advantages of proactively trimming positions when markets start to fall?
In this episode, we move on to the second line of defense: hedging with options.
1. When to Hedge?
Before we dive deep into hedging strategies, it helps to identify differences between two types of drawdowns:
A tech...