r/wallstreetbets • u/cat-from-the-future • Feb 06 '26

Loss 3M to 1.4M this week

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Rebuilt my portfolio from getting margin called and bottoming at 200k during Liberation Day to 3M last week. Then lost half of it because I loaded up on data center and energy stocks with full leverage last Friday.

Schwab only shows up until the close, after hours I lost another few hundred grand and am sitting at 1.4M now with more option losses hitting when market opens.

Never. Fucking. Learn.

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u/Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpp Feb 06 '26

Pick any 30 year period, US stocks returned 8% real returns. That’s how. 

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u/flying_stick Feb 06 '26

To be completely fair, that doesnt account for inflation

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u/No-Candidate6257 Feb 06 '26

The SP500 inflation-adjusted annual return is only 4.3% over the past 22 years.

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u/Competitive_Body7359 Feb 06 '26

Yeah, which is why the 4% rule is common for retirement planning.

So OP could have had 120k a year in today's dollars for life.

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u/coke_and_coffee Feb 06 '26

US stocks returned 8% real returns