The account holder behind this dashboard. Both studio portraits here are from the first pinned post at the top of his Instagram profile — the suit carousel — the three-quarter portrait on the left and the closer head-and-shoulders crop on the right.
Follow along at @michaelshanenugent · Source post: pinned suit carousel, Aug 25, 2025
Example millionaire day-trading account concentrated in large-cap tech and index ETFs. Most of this year's example gain came from two positions — NVDA and META — while TSLA is the current drag. All portfolio figures on this page are fictional examples.
Margin available · example
6.7% of portfolio
23 trades today · example
Past year · vs. S&P 500 +21.2%
Each card pairs real public ticker data — price, day move, beta, market cap and 52-week range from Finnhub at the Fri, Oct 30, 2026 regular-session close — with a fake, invented trade alert written for this example, the way a trade-alert feed would format it. Oct 30 itself shows why these are high-risk: all five fell 4% to 11% in a single session.
Why high-risk / high-reward: MSTR moves like leveraged Bitcoin — a 3.62 beta means it swings roughly 3–4× the market. The 52-week range alone is a 266% spread from low to high.
Why high-risk / high-reward: Earnings and crypto volumes drive violent repricing — down 10.6% in one day here, and 58% in a year, despite a $42.5B market cap.
Why high-risk / high-reward: An AI-hardware momentum name that fell 21% in a month. When AI-server demand expectations shift, the stock reprices in days, not quarters.
Why high-risk / high-reward: At 158× earnings, almost all of the price is future expectations. A single earnings miss — with results due Nov 2 — can erase weeks of gains in one session, as the −6.3% day here hints.
Why high-risk / high-reward: Pure quantum speculation: tiny revenue, ongoing losses, and a stock down ~75% from its 52-week high — sitting almost on its 52-week low. If quantum commercialisation lands, the upside narrative is huge; if it stalls, so does the stock. That asymmetry is exactly what “high-risk, high-reward” means here.
Ticker source: Finnhub public market data via public search, snapshot at build time — regular-session close, Fri Oct 30, 2026 (post-market prices differed). This static page does not fetch live prices, so check a live ticker before treating any price as current: MSTR · COIN · SMCI · PLTR · RGTI. Beta = volatility vs. the wider market (1.0 = market-like; all five are well above it).
7 positions · Sorted by market value · Showing all
| Symbol | Last price | Today | Shares | Market value | Total return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NV NVDANVIDIA Corp. |
$182.44 | +3.21% | 1,120 | $204,332.80 | +$77,099.80 |
AP AAPLApple Inc. |
$268.12 | +0.84% | 665 | $178,299.80 | +$32,044.30 |
MS MSFTMicrosoft Corp. |
$512.30 | +1.12% | 295 | $151,128.50 | +$22,381.90 |
SP SPYSPDR S&P 500 ETF |
$591.08 | +0.47% | 245 | $144,814.60 | +$14,801.70 |
ME METAMeta Platforms |
$604.77 | −0.62% | 195 | $117,930.15 | +$41,466.00 |
TS TSLATesla, Inc. |
$248.19 | −2.04% | 430 | $106,721.70 | −$14,119.05 |
AM AMZNAmazon.com, Inc. |
$186.42 | +1.58% | 300 | $55,926.00 | +$7,061.10 |
Where the money sits
Not owned — just watching
Today & yesterday
NVDA — 144 shares @ $179.10
Today · 1:42 PM PT · Limit order filledTSLA — 108 shares @ $251.40
Today · 11:08 AM PT · Stop-limitMETA — 43 shares @ $598.20
Today · 9:47 AM PT · Market orderSPY — Dividend received
Yesterday · Cash sweepAAPL — 90 shares @ $266.80
Yesterday · 12:31 PM PTHow to read this example: the big number in the portfolio section below the course banner is the account value, the chart shows how it moved over the selected period, Holdings is everything currently owned, and Recent Activity is the trade log. Positions ($959,153.55) + Cash ($68,420.00) = $1,027,573.55. The photos are Michael Shane Nugent's real Instagram photos — both suit portraits from his pinned carousel and the Montana mountaintop photo — while the brokerage, the millionaire portfolio figures, and all trades / trade alerts on this page remain fictional example content, not verified real wealth or real trades. Only the five ticker prices in the tape and Trade Alerts are real public data, as a snapshot at the Oct 30, 2026 close.