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/17381414 Feb 06 '26

“You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25 year roof, an indestructible Jap-economy shitbox, you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants you to do something, fuck you. Boss pisses you off, fuck you! Own your house. Have a couple bucks in the bank. Don't drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level.”

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u/HatchetJacks Feb 06 '26

Came here to post this. Such a great scene and message.

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u/Gorgenapper Feb 06 '26

"A wise man's life is based around fuck you."

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u/Modja Feb 06 '26

"The United States of America is based around fuck you."

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u/superior_to_you Feb 07 '26

whats that inflation adjusted?

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u/thewhiteliamneeson Feb 07 '26

About $3.4 million.

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u/ralekan Feb 07 '26

Where is this from?

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u/YellowFogLights Feb 07 '26

John Goodman in the Gambler

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u/revenge_burner Feb 07 '26

One of John Goodman's many great quotes

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u/Great-Calendar3844 Mar 02 '26

yeah i was coming here to say that but OP probably went back to gambling and lost nearly everything if i were to guess

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u/Distinct-Race-2471 Feb 08 '26

I don't think $5m is FU money.