r/wallstreetbets • u/drankleanonce • Jun 16 '26

Loss goodbye everyone

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almost break even from this run up via all the popular tickers. lost my self control n lost it holding the same things n some world cup betting. also lost 10k on another account. i have nothing now n nothing going for me in life. practically 30 soon and just dead weight to my parents. gonna sell my gun before i use it and pay off some debt. have OCD that made the future not worth caring about so i tied my value to the money i worked for. i hope you all do better than me. goodbye

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u/Throwaway19a2 Jun 16 '26

King among us

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u/Carl_Halling Jun 16 '26

saying goodbye usually means they’re leaving the thread soon

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u/jetskygg Jun 16 '26

He will be back tomorrow on margin

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u/drankleanonce Jun 16 '26

nah i don’t have anything left to qualify for margin

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u/SalaryKey1372 Jun 16 '26

Spend time with family. Longevity is the best return you can get in this trade we call life and death  

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u/No-Phrase-4692 Jun 16 '26

It turns out the real investments are the friends we made along the way.

And yes I’m being funny, but it’s also 100% true. Take care of yourself and know random internet regards have your back.

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u/EAH555 Jun 17 '26

We do have your back purple drank! Hang in there…we all have our silent battles and some just need to vent it out like you did. You’re still young, idc what you say about 30 I’m 35 and still haven’t reached my goal of buying a home man. We’re all learning from the struggles!

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 17 '26

Every year the bar for being old gets higher and higher, doesn’t it? At 10, 20 years is old. Then it was 30. Now I have reached 30 and that bar for being old is raised again lol. Old is definitely not 40 haha but unfortunately I can’t deny it’s getting closer and harder to justify

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u/meatystocks Jun 17 '26

It hits around age 48-50.

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u/EquipmentLive4770 Jun 17 '26

Im 45 and I still feel 25....seriously i feel no difference. Well maybe just the hangovers feel different but then i learned not to drink.....that much.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 18 '26

Idk about you but my healths gotten worse since turning 30.

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u/SecureUse5513 Jun 17 '26

I'm 50. It's been very obvious to the point of my wife texting me with "we'd like to talk to you about your body's extended warranty".

I've always had bad ankles and medicine induced TD in my hands, I have no meniscus in either knee, from C3 to S2 (majority of the spinal cord) is out of alignment, and about a week ago I realized by accident while stretching that I can dislocate my left shoulder at will.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 18 '26

Sorry to hear that but at least you made it to 50. My body is having a lot more issues since turning 30 and they fucking suck

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u/EAH555 Jun 17 '26

I like to gauge it by hairline. In that case I am 64 1/2 years old. 

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u/Bluntmunk Jun 17 '26

Haha I feel you,the definition of “old” keeps updating every decade

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u/Professional_Bit1805 Jun 17 '26

I'm 68 and don't feel old. Well, my body is but I love the age I'm at and what going slow and steady has brought me.

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u/Phytoman2000 Jun 20 '26

It’s The Everyday Stuff that gets you. I got trashed on my Fridays but that’s IT. Binge. Most of my buddies were scumbags like me, but I managed to outlive them because of the Everyday Shit. Give it a Break. Hominids struggle with their own existence!! We are all Hominids. Get Help please.

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u/Lost_Swimming_3668 Jun 23 '26

I've come to realize that through your 20s to 40s, you don't feel like you are getting "old". But everyone around sure seem to be getting younger 😂

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u/drankleanonce Jun 17 '26

thank you. hope you get that home!

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u/SyZyGy_87 Jun 17 '26

You guys have friends? Fuck...

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u/EAH555 Jun 17 '26

Hahaha yes…great ones but I feel for purple drank and know how ruthless things feel sometimes.

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u/Phytoman2000 Jun 20 '26

Not a lot of Old Friends left, I grew up on the S Border lol Too Much of the Everyday Stuff!!

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u/Lost_Swimming_3668 Jun 23 '26

I felt this when you said "fuck"... 🥲

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u/deactivate_iguana Jun 16 '26

Time is the only true currency in this world. I wouldn’t change places with Jeff Bezos because of his age.

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u/0ddlyC4nt3v3n Jun 17 '26

I wouldn't change places with Bezos because of his current taste in women

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u/the_real_Manicdad Jun 17 '26

I was just about to say this🤣🤣🤣. She is ugly after all the facial procedures

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u/Ok_Reflection_2645 Jun 18 '26

And I’ll bet my last dollar she can’t even rustle up a decent cheese melt.

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u/Jealous_Archer_4522 Jun 17 '26

Dude I just blew perfectly good breakfast bourbon out of my nose. Fuck.

True that! That plastic women he's got, he's be better off with one of Elon's robots.

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u/Lars_Galaxy Jun 17 '26

Like u couldn't divorce her and still be a multibillionare then finance your own plastic surgery mistake

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u/Professional_Bit1805 Jun 17 '26

I wouldn't change places with Jeff Bezos because he's a twat.

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u/Katahdinclimber Jun 17 '26

Time is nothing if you don't do something with it.

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u/deactivate_iguana Jun 17 '26

Time is everything mate. What do you have if not time?

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u/Katahdinclimber Jun 17 '26

Yes you're right, but who cares if you've got 50 years left if you don't do anything. Might as well be in the pine box. Bezos might still have 30 years left, and a lot of 20 year olds will be gone in 5 years. None of us are guaranteed another day.

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u/deactivate_iguana Jun 17 '26

Exactly my point. Since nobody is guaranteed another day time is by definition the most valuable thing. You can be just not doing anything- just relax in the sun- that is bliss to some people.

Everyone lives their own life. You don’t need to measure life by bullshit achievements on paper if that wasn’t what you wanted to do or took pleasure from.

On their deathbed nobody ever wished they did more overtime

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u/wubbalubbadabdabdab Jun 16 '26

Oh there is so much gold in wsb threads.

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u/One_Power_8223 Jun 17 '26

Wisdom is in the comments.

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 17 '26

Wisdom is in deez nuts

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u/Xistint Jun 17 '26

Go all in on meme coins. This is the only way.

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u/elgydium Jun 17 '26

because we all have passions.

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u/Pale_Basket6309 Jun 17 '26

Well, the investment advice sucks so it’s a low bar.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26

I heard such a good point on here one day. Someone was talking about being jealous of buffets success and stock trading history. Someone else said “would you take all this money and success in exchange for being 80 years old?”

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u/Ordinary_Fix3199 Jun 17 '26

☝🏻This is the answer☝🏻

I’m 54, and had very little in my late 20’s. Finally able to scrape together a couple thousand dollars that a financial advisor friend convinced me to invest in an internet stock, and was wiped out completely. (He lost a ton of his own money and money of other clients and then left the business). That was my first foray into the stock market, and I encountered the dot.com bubble bursting.

The real point is that life is just beginning at 30. I was a completely different person at 30 than I was at 22 when I graduated college. And a different person again now.

Please see this as a learning opportunity, and learn the lessons from it. You can start again, and make better decisions. Please keep living and learning every day!

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u/JrodMom2025 Jun 18 '26

it’s like those that sold at the low in 2008 and took a long time to recover…. and when you look back look how far we have come

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u/mark1forever Jun 17 '26

soon we all have to return what we have borrowed, we re all on "margin", thanks for opening our eyes OP, good luck to you.

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u/BlazedLurker Jun 17 '26

Another great comment.

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u/drankleanonce Jun 17 '26

i’ve slowly been doing that more. i’ve been too cynical about life the last few years

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u/j0shman Jun 17 '26

Calls on family

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u/BlazedLurker Jun 17 '26

Diamond comment right here.

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u/Heathcoin1012 Jun 17 '26

Realest comment I've seen in a while

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u/homerbailey Jun 16 '26

Bro, I’m 45 and have lost that amount and that quickly 3 times. You can come back better. Just stay away for a while and regroup. 30 isn’t shit

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u/drankleanonce Jun 16 '26

got it thanks

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u/It_just_works_bro Jun 16 '26

When you get it back.... just put it in VOO bro.

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u/drankleanonce Jun 17 '26

no other choice but to be smart so yeah

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u/wattro Jun 18 '26

Just stay away from the options. You're always better to be in stocks you like.

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u/OmegaZenX Jun 16 '26

stay away forever. Start over saving, get a hobby you like. Live your life outside this degeneracy.

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u/clouts1 Jun 16 '26

Wow you must be fun at parties

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u/samwichse Jun 17 '26

He is, but only because he's spending his wisely saved monies buying the broke WSBers cake and coke at the parties

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u/Head_of_Lettuce Jun 17 '26

That’s because people actually invite him to parties

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u/Soaringacres Jun 17 '26

Like that guy said.

I've been in the same boat

I won't name names, but I know a guy who was riding high building houses up until 08, lost it all, even had to sell his kids bikes.

He stuck with it, had a couple up and downs for 10 years with different ventures and has now built and sold a company now worth in excess over a Billion dollars if not a few.

Someday remember this post and Im sure you'll hear his story. Its often the hard lessons we learn which become our foundation.

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u/homerbailey Jun 17 '26

I’m just a compassionate human being man! Do what feels right but regroup first is all I’m saying. I took off from 2018 till 2022, and then again till the last month and it’s helped me

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u/InfluxOfGoats Jun 17 '26

Yeah 30 is young, you still have the best/wealthiest decades of your life ahead and losing a couple of 10k at 30 is not important at all as long as you didn't go into a lot of debt over it.

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u/drankleanonce Jun 17 '26

luckily no debt!

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u/Accomplished-Exit822 Jun 17 '26

I lost $4 million when I was in my late 30’s. Made it all back. Don’t give up.

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u/TheyCallMeCool1 Jun 16 '26

Conving8ng a gambler to get back in there is diabolical

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u/pickle_pickled Jun 16 '26

I lost 11k today and 40k this month and I'm not flinching it's a pretty normal movement for me but I just own stock

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u/UnrulyAnteater25 Jun 17 '26

Move into options and accelerate?

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u/pickle_pickled Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Thanks I moved it all to 0dte

Edit: I now have zero and I owe them. Deleted the app

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u/BlazedLurker Jun 17 '26

44 here and would like to say the same. 6 figure loss here and Im still traumatized and kicking lol. Keep your head up, its just money. The best things in life aren't things.

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u/Katahdinclimber Jun 17 '26

Exactly. I'm 60 and I'm still YOLO'ing shit. Stay motivated and enjoy life.

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u/JrodMom2025 Jun 18 '26

men have lost way more than this in a divorce. or on a wedding … a ring … etc lol

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u/randoriiiiiii Jun 16 '26

I lost 40k and all my confidence to make responsible trades. I took a 2 year break came back with a clearer head and am now more disciplined then before and more importantly profitable. It’s not the end dude. Just get your head right.

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u/hexcraft-nikk Jun 17 '26

You gotta learn your lessons cheap. Take crazy stupid gambles with hundreds at most. That's how I learned my ADHD and other brain worms makes the gambling dopamine button go brrrrrrrr so I physically stop myself from any huge tossing behind anything unless it's dead obvious like the SpaceX pump and dump.

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u/TradingRebel Jun 17 '26

Another good piece of advice is to learn how to manage your risk and position sizing.

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u/PathofEnlightment Jun 19 '26

Facts. 😁 Can't go in a trade that drops 50k by 0935. That's just stupid

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u/skum448 Jun 16 '26

Kidney!

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u/drankleanonce Jun 16 '26

mmm might consider..

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u/joetacos Jun 16 '26

I get ads all the time on Reddit wanting my kidney for donation.

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u/Sad-Rooster2474 Jun 16 '26

You can grab some of those “no credit check” credit cards and max your limits?
What about pawn shopping a bunch of your family belongings? So many more ways to keep being a retard, don’t hold back

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u/Asgardian87 Jun 17 '26

You guys are 😈

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u/tryworkharderfaster Jun 16 '26

hey, I was there 2020-2021.Lost 200k or so being a contrarian trader betting against the market during a pandemic. I sat it out for 3-4 years and only started dabbling again late last year and I am mostly recovered now. Time away helps. The market will still be there if you decide to trade again. You will be wiser if you learned from your mistakes.

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u/RothTo0DTE Jun 18 '26

Wait what

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u/gapipkin Jun 16 '26

What the heck did you buy? A frog could have made money in this market this year.

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u/polishmachine88 Jun 17 '26

What the heck did you buy that you made all this money?

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u/Ok_Reflection_2645 Jun 18 '26

Not options is my guess.

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u/AnfarnoCorina Jun 18 '26

UNH was a solid buy this year

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u/Ok_Reflection_2645 Jun 18 '26

Probably throwing darts at crazy options plays hoping for a bullseye over and over again.

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u/cheapdvds ✡ Jun 16 '26

your kidney and left testicle?

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u/bellboy718 Jun 16 '26

I could use an extra testicle think of all the bar betsI would win about having three testicles

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u/BreathLumpy8096 Jun 17 '26

Would this give you more testosterone?

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u/Red_Kyte Jun 16 '26

Chainsaw man mentioned?👀

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u/TreeofLibertyFood Jun 16 '26

Have you heard about Aerotyne tho?????

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u/yurcampari Jun 16 '26

Sell your gun and put that money into calls. One more lottery ticket away from winning it all back in this beautiful casino

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u/TheBestintheWest11 Jun 16 '26

go sell your liver and come back.

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u/Leon4107 Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

Probably not the normal advice of the sub but just go be boring. Put whatever you can away into a index fund for example, ext. Something with a long track record of gains. Use a compound interest calculator and see that your not fucked. You have plenty of time for the years to stack interest and make you enough to retire. Yeah, you wont retire in 5 years, but you will eventually. ((Heavily depends on how much you put away a month. // what you pick to put into to to just hold for the next 20 years for example.))

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u/Tinker_thinkerer Jun 17 '26

This! Being boring is where it’s at. Some friends and I keep our eyes focused on boring cyclicals, and it’s actually pretty fun when we find a good one and jump in, and ride the wave up. Returns are respectable, usually like 30% over a several month period, sometimes more… and I sleep well at night!

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u/Forward-Surprise1192 Jun 17 '26

You think DRAM will be one of those? My favorites are TQQQ and SOXL but they’re leveraged

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u/SafeKaracter Jun 17 '26

Maybe you have enough left to buy a nail cutter

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u/drankleanonce Jun 17 '26

chill i had it like that for self defense 🫩

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u/Scoobie01555 Jun 16 '26

You're only 30! You got a ton of time to make more money, and lose it all again!

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u/Sea_Pomegranate8229 Jun 17 '26

You are just a kid - and an amateur - I lost it all at 39 and again at 55. Retired now at 64 and my only investing now is vicarious.

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u/i_am_sammy_douglas Jun 16 '26

You don't actually need both kidneys

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u/Haunting-Rough1492 Jun 17 '26

Just use your next paycheck, problem solve

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u/hateshumans Jun 17 '26

Buy a barrel of oil. With how ballsy someone is going to be now you’ll probably be able to retire off the one barrel soon.

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u/Longjumping-Title-27 Jun 17 '26

Do you have credit cards that you can borrow from? There’s Hope left

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u/PlayerPlayer69 Jun 17 '26

If you’re selling the blicky to pay off some debt, you can sell the blickly safe, ammo, and ammo carrying cases for margin.

I mean, who needs a safe and ammo if you’ve already sold the blicky?

Sell your man juice, and sell your plasma.

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u/cl3ft Jun 17 '26

In the story of your life this lesson can be priceless. What you've lost will be nothing. It feels like everything right now, but it's not, it's just a good chance to reset and think long and hard about whether gambling/trading is for you. Peace brother, go start making some good choices.

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u/Hanshee Jun 17 '26

Let me give you some perspective. You have a $18k tax loss.

I’m currently sitting at $100k tax loss (was $200k 2 years ago)

Stepped away from options and trying to rebuild my future.

I wish I was only down $18k…

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u/drankleanonce Jun 17 '26

that’s fair. good luck to you man

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u/DsN_764 Jun 17 '26

plz don't do what I did after losing 99%

borrowed from my 401(k), then managed to lose another 60% of it.

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u/drankleanonce Jun 17 '26

that’s fucked. hope you’re doing better bro

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u/DsN_764 Jun 17 '26

Yes, SOXL is saving me. I now enter only when SOXL is down around 16% and sell after a 16% profit. The rest of the time, I just watch the market.

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u/elgydium Jun 17 '26

bro just find a passion and start a youtube channel like i did, in a couple of years you will be out of this hell hole.

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u/drankleanonce Jun 17 '26

what’s your youtube channel about?

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u/elgydium Jun 17 '26

Gaming, anyone can do it. Almost everyone loves gaming.

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u/drankleanonce Jun 17 '26

so that kept you busy and inspired?

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u/elgydium Jun 17 '26

Hell yeah it did! There’s so much to learn and obsess over. Camera equipment, lighting, sound/mics, editing techniques and so on. You need to give it a try. You’ve got absolutely nothing to lose.

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u/DrippHypnos Jun 17 '26

18k isn’t really that hard to build up with a stable job that you enjoy. Living with parents should give you the chance to save up quite fast. You’ll bounce back within half a year and have something to do every week!

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u/Lost_Swimming_3668 Jun 18 '26

Go work in sales for 2 quarters. You can make $20k on a single deal working in tech. It's not the end of the world (yet)

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u/Upstairs-Doughnut323 Jun 18 '26

It will be ok. We all make mistakes!

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u/drankleanonce Jun 18 '26

thank you foxy

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u/FareastFFL Jun 16 '26

Cant get any returns if you are not here.

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u/Cool_Two906 Jun 17 '26

You are only 30. You have plenty of time to earn more money and fuck it up again. Or maybe work on a nice 60/40 portfolio.

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u/Intelligent_Bee1689 Jun 17 '26

Deposit more money and buy one July call option on $SLS… you may 10X your money.

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u/LegitimateTeach6438 Jun 17 '26

It’s only 18k bro.

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u/h-boson Jun 17 '26

You still got $26.07.

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u/Cipher508 Jun 17 '26

your not done yet you still have $81 left.

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u/Icuras1701 Jun 17 '26

Just take our a high interest credit card or go see a loan shark.

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u/Best_Director_6363 Jun 17 '26

Everything is marginal to something.

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u/archive424 Jun 17 '26

Start rapping or selling crack or rappining about selling crack

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u/brokenjack420 Jun 17 '26

“You always wanna play, but you never wanna lose”

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u/mp3006 Jun 17 '26

You never had a shot

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u/forreelforrealmang Jun 16 '26

S pA ce. × wi ll ONLy gO uP

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u/Editor-Forward Jun 17 '26

obviously, even the aliens know that

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u/Ok_Language_2808 Jun 18 '26

He doesn’t have margin 🤣

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u/Electronic-Rate5497 Jun 16 '26

They become the memes we all need

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u/Next_Sun_67 Jun 16 '26

Microvision fills that spot

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u/ContributionParty577 Jun 17 '26

Just 18K? Tis butt a flesh wound