Humm this is what AI saying **Partly true, but it's not free money, and some details are wrong.** **Costco:** The special dividend is real. Costco declared $30 per share, payable December 4 to holders of record on November 24. Nov 22 is a Sunday, though, so the market is closed. One report says you need to own the stock by the close on Nov. 23. Buying then and selling Nov 25 would collect the dividend. But a stock's price normally drops by about the dividend amount once the ex-dividend date passes, so you'd end up roughly flat before commissions and taxes. **BTX:** This looks like the BlackRock Technology and Private Equity Term Trust. It pays monthly, but the amounts are small. The latest listed payment is about $0.0525 per share, and the forward yield is about 7.5%. That is well below 11%. A longer-running problem is the timing. One data site lists the next ex-dividend date as Nov 13, which is tomorrow. If you buy on the ex-date, you don't get that month's payout. To receive it, you'd have had to own the shares before then. **Why the trick doesn't work:** This is called dividend capture. For BTX, the typical price drop on the ex-date has been close to the dividend itself, and the average gain was under 1% before taxes and costs. Taxes can erase even that. If you hold US stocks in a Canadian account, US dividends usually face 15% withholding tax. In a TFSA you can't get that back, while an RRSP is generally exempt. This is general information, not financial advice. A post promising easy money from a "temporary hold" deserves skepticism.

Wanted to try something different this week. I let the AI pick one $25k risk trade and I picked the other $25k risk trade. Both positions are already filled and showing in the account. Screenshot attached (account value $1,015,273.60 / cash $950,645.60 as of this morning). Mistake: On the NVDA bull call debit spread (Buy 180 / Sell 200) I accidentally selected the Nov 27 expiration instead of a shorter-dated one. I will fully close that position by Friday Nov 13 so the account is back to 100% cash, exactly as the rules require. The SPY spread is already on the correct Nov 13 expiry and will also be closed by Friday. I already missed last week’s entry because I was busy over the weekend and didn’t want to miss this one as well. Closing the Nov 27 NVDA spread this week regardless of P&L so everything stays clean. Will post the closing screenshots on Friday.

@Ravi Radhakrishnan its Alpaca I just have Muse place the trade and told it what to do and take screen shot thats what it did dont think its actual screen shoot of Alpaca. I can share the actual screen shot of my account but I am too lazy let AI do its thing :)

@Kristine Galoyo is amazing all the best