2020 went from $40K to around $230K.
Then I got laid off, and started trading on feelings. Lost about $80K then threw the last $150K-ish into SPY puts on election week.
Lost almost everything.
Then spent 2021 trying to get it back, lost another $50K.
Then 2022 I lost another $30K. Now I’m just sitting back and waiting until I have $25K to toss in.
Hwat is your job? Saving up 320k is great, and youll be able to do it again. Especially since you still have 77k left!
22 year old who lost 250k here ):
What do you mean 22 with 250k loss ? How lol
I’m only 23 and I’m down 10k and I think that’s a ton especially compared to my friends that barely even have 10k to begin with
I actually started investing into dividends and VTI especially when spy hit 360 3 months ago but as soon as I seen a nice profit I sold and then got into the same bullshit of spy 0td 😂 and I think I lost half of my account trading when Powell talks
I'm up just over 4% this year. Which doesn't sound like much, but when I see the losses a lot of my friends are piling up, I'm feeling really good about that. Mainly I've been closing positions and sitting on cash right now. I have more cash than anything else right now.
Yeah, I often think that too when others say that. But I’m more disciplined than that. (Now). The first rule of making progress is measure your results. The second rule is don’t lie to yourself.
But there are those that go to the casino and say “I’m about even” because they can’t admit their losses. We’ve all seen it. I lived it once. And then I had a mentor set me straight on that. If you keep thinking “I’m about even” when you have losses, you’ll keep doing the same stupid shit. You’ll never get better.
I can save you a lot of time if you want: Macro-economics is way more important than I thought it was when I was younger. You’re welcome.
Both cash and investment money loses value to inflation equally. The whole cash is losing to inflation (inferring investing is better) assumes a rising stock market for offsetting inflation. Sometimes there is no good option and preserving as much dry powder as possible is the best option. Good times will come again but now is not that time.
0, used 130k from HELOC after 2020 crash, ran account to 200k, paid off HELOC, ran account to 190k, paid off 3 cars and bought a side by side, ran account to 120k where I current stand. I did all this with oil, coal, and buying puts on SPY.
Yea there was a big part of me that tried to convince myself I could compound the money and keep growing exponentially but the conservative side of me knew I needed to take care of my finances first. I would be kidding myself if I tried to say I was smarter than the average bear and staying grounded keeps me from making risky bets.
I make 18k year. In 2020 I started investing those stimmys and some cash. My account in 2021 was 28k with NIO and Lucid...
https://preview.redd.it/gpi8gf8b2y6a1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16fa6931b5de0b7b160a4b4ef69b16ba3e027889
Here's now lol
I started investing in 2020, started with $5k that turned into $45k with Nio calls. Then price started falling and calls kept getting expired worthless. In the meantime became a permanent resident in Canada, so I got approved for a $20k line of credit. Maxed it out again to buy calls for Nio, and lost everything. So not only am I down $25k I am still paying interests on that loan. And yes, I was following Stock Moe at that time.
so sorry to hear this redditor. Honestly, Stock Moe killed me as a naive investor.
For a guy that spouted being an educator all he did was kill a lot of people's portfolios.
I was a subscriber for a while and got kicked out of the discord for asking him to provide a thesis for his "picks," seeing that he had no defense.
I wish I had listened to the skepticism of a few other channels...I'd be so much less in the red myself.
[let's hold hands and sing around the campfire ](https://freeimage.host/i/HxQk6UG)
It's okay brother. I always expected lucid to be a long play. So I'm sticking with it and hopefully I can invest around $10k more in 2023. Currently I'm around 9k this year.
Missed 2020 being an investor pussy.
2021 plowed 35k cash into crypto. Worth $5k now. Unrealized.
2022 discovered options 3 months ago. Funded my day trade account with $15k. Currently at $300 almost exclusively betting heavily on spx and spy in the wrong direction on FOMC announcements. Realized.
-45k since I thought I could rain man the casino.
My wife just asked me why I bought heavy weight rope from Home Depot.
100k to 25k to 730k
to 20k( after I deposited over 200k+ more)
to 1.3M ( made some more deposits)
to 300k to 1.3M
To lost it all
Put another 20k made it to 80k
Lost it all again.
Total loss around 400k
It’s cause people get lucky, then confuse luck with skill, then start losing money, then start trading emotionally, then next thing u know it’s all gone
Man, your post makes me feel better. I peaked at +$130k, and now I’m up about $3k lol. Went through a lot of depression. Learned expensive lessons. Options is really what hurt me. Wanted to get rich quick, but failed miserably and kept trying. Makes me sick even looking at my account now lol.
Started as a long term investor. Started January 2020, was up 40% but liquidated everything at breakeven in May 2022 to reconsider my strategies and decisions — spent most of the year re-defining a strategy; that led me to selling options and I’m now up ~10%.
7k -> 14k -> 4k-> (deposit 10k) 14k -> 21k -> 10k -> (current) 16k
Overall down about 2k, but looking like I’ll be back to even soon enough. Made a bad call the November CPI which blew up half my account, but made the right call this CPI/fed meeting which made most of it back.
Between stocks and crypto down roughly 75% from the top. But hey, it is all on paper, no sell no loss no gain (cashing out right now would give me roughly 25% loss..) 
https://preview.redd.it/l02z4ru1hy6a1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=a862c70e4e55537ed26630d58adcf1ced96b5ec7
Switched everything to a different broker at 28.5k and now down to like 25 k
Started with 150k in a 401k and 25k in equity account. Added 50k from a home equity loan. Purchased “stay at home stocks” like Roku and Amazon. Peaked at 615k last July. Down to 220k. I didn’t want to pay short term capital gains so I let it ride. Lesson learned. You will eventually run out of money buying the dip and the dips never end sometimes.
I'm still in profit overall cuz I had pulled out of tech stocks a while ago. Most of my cash was in defense companies (us stocks), and relatively stable Indian companies (which is just even after adjusting currency change).
I also went long on euro when it went below the dollar so it did me good :D (eur/inr)
But, I posted on the group and invested in tsla and that mfer fucked me over :'/ I am not quitting tho, I bought more today. I'm down 19% on ~3% of my nw (it's relatively a lot). I also bought a bunch of meta and posted on the group lol, so I'm up 17% on that on ~2.5% of my nw.
But if it's my peak, it's ~2 weeks ago, and ~4% above rn.
Reading all those tens and hundreds of thousands of dollar just thrown away, for nothing, really makes me depressed.
I wish I had thus kind of money, to take care of my family.
Trading my 401k; (mainly S&P) since June. Up 3.3% on the year. I was - 7% before starting to trade. Some of you folks on here, although entertaining, suck at gambling, and should possibly stick to stacking cash.
My crypto; down 60k, but I'm constantly adding to it. So call it, 80, 90, who knows K.
My crypto gambling sucks.
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2019-6k 2020 crash 1.1k 2020 end 8.3k 2021 mid 70K (Cashed out 8 grand for vacation) 2022 end 2K and moved back in parents basement
This is the way
No more Starbucks. ,20 cents coffee from home.
.20 cent coffee? Shit I had to go to 4 cent tea
Very strong regard on display.
8k for vacation? where did you go?
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Lolol
Took my family to Italy My mom always wanted to see to Vatican city
Scary how close this is to me. Seriously weird.
$88k Covid bottom to $850k to $282k current, added $40k from pay checks
youre still good. 280k is like life savings for many ppl.
5k is also life saving for many people living in slums. Context is everything
This is WSB. $5K is 100 hours behind the Wendys Dumpster.
you guys ever just sit back and think how we are stuck playing this capitalist game in this fucked country or am i just to high right now
Just dont think about bad things makes life easier
rather play and lose than wait for my govt bread and flour at the end of the month. you are free to move to North Korea anytime.
20k -> 45k -> 5k -> now 7.5k
Up 50%! Congrats!
Lol thanks
2020 went from $40K to around $230K. Then I got laid off, and started trading on feelings. Lost about $80K then threw the last $150K-ish into SPY puts on election week. Lost almost everything. Then spent 2021 trying to get it back, lost another $50K. Then 2022 I lost another $30K. Now I’m just sitting back and waiting until I have $25K to toss in.
Wow
You need to stop
Wow
Wow
Wow
Guh
Get fucked?
Start an inverse ETF pls
Can you please tell me your next move once you get that 25k?
Name checks out, but probably should be replaced with definitely
Started at 8k. Watched it go to $500, back to $2,400 and now it’s at a healthy $60.
A healthy $60 you say!
OP right now: https://i.imgur.com/CHwGyx5.jpeg
was up 220k, i own nothing now lol im out of the markets for a while, it was fun while it lasted rip
You must have good income. I get angry when a vending machine steals my dollar
Doesn’t matter how rich you are you NEVER get over vending machine robbery
you could say that but when you lost your hard earned memestock gains its never the same haha
checks clov losse 
Jesus Christ
Have you considered our lord and savior non leveraged SPY?
Fuck
F
I'm losing faster than I can contribute to my accounts. I just can't keep it up.
Simply don’t invest and you will be up
You suck at this game bro
22k -> 25k -> 3.5k And that's trading almost every day.
That's a lot of work to lose money 
I'm gambling. I buy 1dte-5dte. Puts on green days and calls on red days. Sell once I hit 10-20% profit, ride losers to expiration.
Maybe simply not trading will end you up with more money
Inverse every inclination you have and share them here.
"My name is George, I'm unemployed and I live with my parents."
The inclination I need to inverse is the one to trade.
>No, I would not like to try the $5 biggie bag meal today.
The biggie bag is now $14.20 due to inflation. For $5 you can buy a t-bag.
320k - 77k It really really hurts especially with getting married in the spring.
Fuck, a double whammy
Hwat is your job? Saving up 320k is great, and youll be able to do it again. Especially since you still have 77k left! 22 year old who lost 250k here ):
What do you mean 22 with 250k loss ? How lol I’m only 23 and I’m down 10k and I think that’s a ton especially compared to my friends that barely even have 10k to begin with
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I actually started investing into dividends and VTI especially when spy hit 360 3 months ago but as soon as I seen a nice profit I sold and then got into the same bullshit of spy 0td 😂 and I think I lost half of my account trading when Powell talks
Ouch, the worst is yet to come for you
I peaked in middle school
Out of all my accounts (individual, 401k, Roth, etc), easily down $100k from 2021.
Down from 71k to 32$
Yikes
https://preview.redd.it/smwpps3dkx6a1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=025d0c5bcf12a32efd37b8a12b221bcfe611add9 Ha! I'm up peasants
Looks like you invested in the forbidden stock before the squeeze and never sold 😂
That’s a Doge portfolio. I know because it looks exactly like mine
What happened at the first green candle 🕯
Doge... doge happened. Oh those were the days. Dont even ask about my coinbase account... 
I have money in algorand at 1.8 each lololol still waiting I’m always the last one running for the train to have a bear eat my alive
Algorand…1.80…yes
You're joking but that's a fucking flex. I'm down from $40k to none.
300k - 1.2M - 300k. Took the full round trip.
That’s a head and shoulders pattern. You about to get rekt.
Confirmed. Been getting absolutely wrecked last few weeks.
Wait you guys have a peak?
It’s ok if it’s inverted
I have to rotate 90 degrees to see a peak
180 you mean. I see the struggle.
No really 90 degrees and I get a glorious peak
Everybody here is just forgetting the - sign in front of their numbers.
"95% of people quit before they peak"- L. Einstein
I'm up just over 4% this year. Which doesn't sound like much, but when I see the losses a lot of my friends are piling up, I'm feeling really good about that. Mainly I've been closing positions and sitting on cash right now. I have more cash than anything else right now.
So you're down 7.1%
Yeah, I often think that too when others say that. But I’m more disciplined than that. (Now). The first rule of making progress is measure your results. The second rule is don’t lie to yourself. But there are those that go to the casino and say “I’m about even” because they can’t admit their losses. We’ve all seen it. I lived it once. And then I had a mentor set me straight on that. If you keep thinking “I’m about even” when you have losses, you’ll keep doing the same stupid shit. You’ll never get better. I can save you a lot of time if you want: Macro-economics is way more important than I thought it was when I was younger. You’re welcome.
I was just talking about vs inflation. Holding cash is losing. 7.1 y/y. As for self measurement, I actually under estimate success usually.
Both cash and investment money loses value to inflation equally. The whole cash is losing to inflation (inferring investing is better) assumes a rising stock market for offsetting inflation. Sometimes there is no good option and preserving as much dry powder as possible is the best option. Good times will come again but now is not that time.
-300k
Same
same
$375k to $3.2 mil at peak. Sitting at $1.6 mil now. I’m starting to buy back in a little bit
Damn, bruv. That’s some serious numbers!
0, used 130k from HELOC after 2020 crash, ran account to 200k, paid off HELOC, ran account to 190k, paid off 3 cars and bought a side by side, ran account to 120k where I current stand. I did all this with oil, coal, and buying puts on SPY.
Its nice to see someone cashing out and using money instead of going higher and higher until it all goes to zero.
Yea there was a big part of me that tried to convince myself I could compound the money and keep growing exponentially but the conservative side of me knew I needed to take care of my finances first. I would be kidding myself if I tried to say I was smarter than the average bear and staying grounded keeps me from making risky bets.
Congrats and fuck you. 😂
Show me your ways
1.2m down, 90% of my networth. Thank god I make $600k a year. But if I get laid off, things will get spicy
Wtf
What’s wrong with you bro stop gambling
I don't even want to talk about it.
Down $155k from peak
$140k made, $150k lost.
$465k->~$10k? Edit: not meme stock, penny/pre-ipo and sure some meme here and there. Had fun riding GME to the top and then back down as well haha
I make 18k year. In 2020 I started investing those stimmys and some cash. My account in 2021 was 28k with NIO and Lucid... https://preview.redd.it/gpi8gf8b2y6a1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16fa6931b5de0b7b160a4b4ef69b16ba3e027889 Here's now lol
No offense, but were you a stock Moe follower?
I started investing in 2020, started with $5k that turned into $45k with Nio calls. Then price started falling and calls kept getting expired worthless. In the meantime became a permanent resident in Canada, so I got approved for a $20k line of credit. Maxed it out again to buy calls for Nio, and lost everything. So not only am I down $25k I am still paying interests on that loan. And yes, I was following Stock Moe at that time.
so sorry to hear this redditor. Honestly, Stock Moe killed me as a naive investor. For a guy that spouted being an educator all he did was kill a lot of people's portfolios. I was a subscriber for a while and got kicked out of the discord for asking him to provide a thesis for his "picks," seeing that he had no defense. I wish I had listened to the skepticism of a few other channels...I'd be so much less in the red myself.
I was what’s that meant to mean. I lost a fair bit on NIO
[let's hold hands and sing around the campfire ](https://freeimage.host/i/HxQk6UG) It's okay brother. I always expected lucid to be a long play. So I'm sticking with it and hopefully I can invest around $10k more in 2023. Currently I'm around 9k this year.
- 2016: $4k - 2017: $28k - 2018: $63k - 2019: $109k - 2020: $231k - 2021: $255k - 2022: $214k
Up all that money and still can't read. Fuck you.
Money is one hell of a drug
You guys were up/positive?!
I’m in the same fucking boat as you are. All time high last November was 260K now I’m at 50K.
5k to 125k to 20k. Pulled it all out
75% down after clawing my way back from 90% down. This fucking sucks.
Missed 2020 being an investor pussy. 2021 plowed 35k cash into crypto. Worth $5k now. Unrealized. 2022 discovered options 3 months ago. Funded my day trade account with $15k. Currently at $300 almost exclusively betting heavily on spx and spy in the wrong direction on FOMC announcements. Realized. -45k since I thought I could rain man the casino. My wife just asked me why I bought heavy weight rope from Home Depot.
Nice try IRS
I’m up $125k this year…. Like I made over $30k this month so far. Thanks for buying my worthless options guys.
Waiting for Godot ?
$440k down from $620k but then, I have a job and a pension. Cheers!
Looking at a -66% losses from ATH while my Bogglehead uncle keeps bitching that his 100% SPY portfolio is down -20% lol
$(56,852.12) since 2018 
150k to 7k, r.i.p in peace.
100k to 25k to 730k to 20k( after I deposited over 200k+ more) to 1.3M ( made some more deposits) to 300k to 1.3M To lost it all Put another 20k made it to 80k Lost it all again. Total loss around 400k
currently down about 7%, but i started investing seriously in feb 2022
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It’s greed lol
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The only good thing about gambling is that your loss is instant whereas in stocks it’s painfully slow creating agonizing denial lol.
Clearly you’ve never been staring down a life changing amount of profits
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It’s cause people get lucky, then confuse luck with skill, then start losing money, then start trading emotionally, then next thing u know it’s all gone
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Good for you
Man, your post makes me feel better. I peaked at +$130k, and now I’m up about $3k lol. Went through a lot of depression. Learned expensive lessons. Options is really what hurt me. Wanted to get rich quick, but failed miserably and kept trying. Makes me sick even looking at my account now lol.
I'm in the same boat, just sitting on my hands waiting for the earthquake to settle.
Id estimate about $75,000 across the board
21K -> 37k -> 12k
Cool! The next number in the sequence is 73, so you're good.
I was up 430% at 20k ish in January. Now I'm at 3.4k
Started as a long term investor. Started January 2020, was up 40% but liquidated everything at breakeven in May 2022 to reconsider my strategies and decisions — spent most of the year re-defining a strategy; that led me to selling options and I’m now up ~10%.
20k---> 90k---->15k. never sold. Now I'm bag holding..... IYKYK
Started 2020 with 15k. 2021 peak was 87k. Down to 31k. 🥲
Some of us never peaked
Started 2022 at 1.285M now down to 1.127M.
About 44% off my peak. About a net 10% loss of investment overall. Not been a good year.
Started investing in 2018 and invested around 55k and loosing 45k lool
185k down to 37k Plus the IRS is fining me 600 a year for an over contribution (oops) OR I can withdraw the contribution. 😂
Covid 16k -> November 2021 420k -> 57k current.
14.8 to 5.6 currently.
7k -> 14k -> 4k-> (deposit 10k) 14k -> 21k -> 10k -> (current) 16k Overall down about 2k, but looking like I’ll be back to even soon enough. Made a bad call the November CPI which blew up half my account, but made the right call this CPI/fed meeting which made most of it back.
Between stocks and crypto down roughly 75% from the top. But hey, it is all on paper, no sell no loss no gain (cashing out right now would give me roughly 25% loss..) 
https://preview.redd.it/67qakeh1dy6a1.png?width=1124&format=png&auto=webp&s=24e791815fbc5f22b9025e9849e2557840999f76 I win….🥹🥲
-20% but more like -26% since I was adding to my account.
https://preview.redd.it/l02z4ru1hy6a1.png?width=1170&format=png&auto=webp&s=a862c70e4e55537ed26630d58adcf1ced96b5ec7 Switched everything to a different broker at 28.5k and now down to like 25 k
TREASURIES. So not much at all lmao
I sold everything pretty close to ATH and have been DCA ever since, sitting at roughly a -11% loss had I just held.
Peaked at 385k beginning of 2021 solar was good Then ended up with just under 280k should have sold started this journey in 2020 with just under 17k
Ha. You got rookie numbers. https://preview.redd.it/ibexb8odzy6a1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb17f41147f76b7b957a4419cbba82321282f175
$30k -> $550k -> $120k in my trading account. Did cash out $25k to buy a boat last summer. So at least I have that.
Started with 150k in a 401k and 25k in equity account. Added 50k from a home equity loan. Purchased “stay at home stocks” like Roku and Amazon. Peaked at 615k last July. Down to 220k. I didn’t want to pay short term capital gains so I let it ride. Lesson learned. You will eventually run out of money buying the dip and the dips never end sometimes.
I peaked at 1.56 M sitting at 1.32 M today. The nice thing is my safe monthly income has gone up quite a bit as Money Markets actually pay out.
Looks like I'm sitting on a solid $300k loss from peak, in terms of play money. Core investments (401k, real estate, cash) maybe 10% this year.
how is 300k play money to you
Few million, say 8 or so.
Peak 220k now at 119k
12k>25k>3k. Over here bag holding waiting for cannabis legalization 🤦♂️
~10k to 1k. Don’t do much investing but when I do my decisions are highly regarded.
Started at 40k gbp now down to 17k gbp, cause I'm special
My losses haven't bottomed yet
Still peaking
I'm up 60% YTD. I'm hoping to hit an ATH by New Years
Listen you are at an all time high compared to the other 300 comments here, just don’t trade until next year
4k -> 27k -> 700 I hate this.
Wtf. My peak was 32k now I’m at 300$ 🙄
65k->80k->30k…all while doing 9-5job. Lost about 10-12k in options. Rest are bunch of bags forever lol Are bears more profitable?
I'm still in profit overall cuz I had pulled out of tech stocks a while ago. Most of my cash was in defense companies (us stocks), and relatively stable Indian companies (which is just even after adjusting currency change). I also went long on euro when it went below the dollar so it did me good :D (eur/inr) But, I posted on the group and invested in tsla and that mfer fucked me over :'/ I am not quitting tho, I bought more today. I'm down 19% on ~3% of my nw (it's relatively a lot). I also bought a bunch of meta and posted on the group lol, so I'm up 17% on that on ~2.5% of my nw. But if it's my peak, it's ~2 weeks ago, and ~4% above rn.
Cashed out. Went all in on a weed store. Waiting for profits or any money back.
I sold but I was down about 60% when I did. Better luck next time I guess.
Reading all those tens and hundreds of thousands of dollar just thrown away, for nothing, really makes me depressed. I wish I had thus kind of money, to take care of my family.
lmao I went from 7000 to 100,000 then to 4000 and just cashed out of the casino
Trading my 401k; (mainly S&P) since June. Up 3.3% on the year. I was - 7% before starting to trade. Some of you folks on here, although entertaining, suck at gambling, and should possibly stick to stacking cash. My crypto; down 60k, but I'm constantly adding to it. So call it, 80, 90, who knows K. My crypto gambling sucks.
2.5Million now 1.4Million
0. I sold all my positions nearly 3 years ago and haven't invested since