I was a 27-year-old girl working in IT when a colleague introduced me to Nifty options. My first few trades were profitable, and within weeks I started believing my salary job was holding me back. I took personal loans and increased my position size. One expiry day wiped out ₹5.4 lakh.
I hid it from my parents for three months. My father finally found the loan messages on my phone. Instead of asking why I lost money, he asked why I had been crying alone every night. He helped me restructure the debt, but made me promise I would never trade borrowed money again.