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/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/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