d/MoneyMinds • Follow post Save Hide Report Got stopped out twenty minutes before it ripped 30% on unexpected fda news had a stop loss on a biotech position, set for good reason, proper risk management, the responsible thing to do. stock dipped, hit my stop, sold me out. clean, disciplined, exactly how you're supposed to do it. felt fine about it for about twenty minutes. then FDA news dropped. unexpected. the good kind. stock rips 30% on the announcement, straight up, the exact move I'd been positioned for before my own stop loss kicked me out at the bottom of the dip. twenty minutes. I missed a 30% rip by... 1 0 Share
d/MoneyMinds • Follow post Save Hide Report Down $8k on a single aapl earnings play and somehow this is not even my worst trade this year bought AAPL calls into earnings, standard degenerate move. dropped $8k on it when the report didn't move the stock the way I needed and theta plus IV crush did the rest. eight grand, gone, one earnings play. and here's the genuinely upsetting part. this is not my worst trade this year. it's not even close, honestly. this $8k disaster ranks somewhere in the middle of the pack for me in the last several months. I have done worse. multiple times. which says a whole lot more about my year than... 1 0 Share
d/MoneyMinds • Follow post Save Hide Report Explained “gamma squeeze” to my mom with a rubber band analogy and confused us both more my mother asked what happened to that stock I'd mentioned losing money on last month. sweet of her to remember. terrible for me to have to explain. so I tried. reached for a rubber band analogy to explain a gamma squeeze, options market makers hedging their exposure, dealers getting forced to buy as the stock climbs, the whole thing. and somewhere around the middle of my own explanation I completely lost the thread. the rubber band went nowhere. I confused myself. we were both worse off than before I opened... 1 0 Share
d/MoneyMinds • Follow post Save Hide Report Sold covered calls against my nvda shares and got assigned the week it ripped 18% thought I was being the smart, responsible one for once. held NVDA two years, figured I'd generate a little extra income selling covered calls against shares I wasn't planning to touch anyway. strike felt safely out of reach when I sold them. free money, basically. that's what everyone says, free money. then the stock did the one thing I did not plan for and ripped 18% that week. blew right through my strike like it wasn't there. got assigned, shares called away, locked in a "gain." technically a gain. sure.... 1 0 Share
d/MoneyMinds • Follow post Save Hide Report Got wrecked shorting a meme stock because i underestimated how “meme” it still was saw a company trading at a valuation that made zero fundamental sense. none. by every metric I learned it should've been way lower, so I shorted it through my margin account, confident as anything. easy money, I thought. the market will come to its senses. I forgot that fundamentals mean absolutely nothing to a coordinated retail crowd with a Reddit account and nothing better to do that week. squeeze happened. shorts got run over, me included, and I covered at a loss that genuinely still makes my stomach hurt a... 1 0 Share
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