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 it says about AAPL. AAPL's fine. AAPL will be fine. it's a trillion dollar company. I'm the one out here treating the most stable stock on earth like a lottery ticket and still finding a way to make it a mid-tier loss on my personal leaderboard of pain.
anyway. holding some NVDA calls into next week. this is fine