Imaginary numbers do imaginary things
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2025
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Sounds complex.
i agree
Uhh, my portfolio just dropped to $(√-1). Do I hodl?
Buy the dip or smth
I’ve got a whole trunk load of Copenhagen. What now?
Oh shit oh fuck
write the rest of that song
This specifically is likely due to losses but also due to a large withdrawal or something.
They have really turned on Donald Trump, which is kind of interesting considering the amount of slurs.
Well see the problem is Trump isn't conservative enough
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on the other side you got the bears that just quadrupled their money on put options. bears are always losing let them have this moment.
i have the bear phenotype and yet i have not quadrupled my money what am i doing wrong
You are woke, therefore you are broke. Those are the rules, sorry.
you would if you had gambled all your money (and your grandma's pension money), borrowed on top and marginmaxxing and put all of it on out of the money put options on NASDAQ.
How do these tater tots even get so much money to start with.
- Liquidating crypto they bought or mined when it was cheap to do so, and winning the gamble it would go up
- Taking debt and investing with the hopes of beating interest rates
- They don't have that much and they're doing leverage plays and getting burned
- They're lying and doctoring screenshots
- They're working in lucrative jobs in finance or similar and blowing their savings
i think a lot of it is margin which is extra risky
Its definitely this one. Robin hood is still used for its simplicity (the other more 'serious' trading apps are pretty garbage) but because they also approve hella margin for everyone.
- Being born into it and inexplicably assuming that meant they were smart
the same way every other rich person gets their money to start with: from their parents
A very small number, like 1 in 10000, make like a 10000% return on something that normally would have lost them every penny and post something like this when they try it again and lose. It's pretty sad. Many with bad gambling problems.
or
(Lower middle class Job + no social life) x years = a modest amount of money
From my experience, living with the parents and having no social life, it’s pretty easy to gamble on the stock market even on 15hr. So I can imagine someone who lives with their parents and makes 50k-100k could be moving fat stacks of cash on the market
In hindsight, it was very naive of me to assume that whole Gamestop/Robinhood fiasco would have taught these nerds that this shit was rigged from the start even if you followed all the supposed rules.
The game does not exist so the rich can play it. The game exists so the rich can win it and have it look like they won it fairly.
The Hexbear market strikes again!
alexa what is portfolio balancing
no seriously, I am completely clueless
Its just buying different shit. You might pick up some stocks from some different sectors, maybe some bonds, some commodities, etc.
The issue right now is that everything is tanking.
Even with everything tanking, it’s impressively bad investing to lose 100% of your investments on a <15% overall stock market downturn.
give me enough leverage and I can accrue more debt than the world
That's what options are for!
Ah that'll be it. They've gambled their entire portfolio (if you can even call it that) on a bunch of put options that suddenly became impossible to fill the moment the market rebounded. 5-dimensional chess move.
Buying a basket of blue chip crypto projects
The supply is 0 so the price is infinite
Just supply and demand
Looks like you still got a cent there. Get back in the game!
If we are being honest r/wallstreetbets are always going through something.
...how? markets are bad but how do you lose 100%?
EDIT: Probably gambled the entire balanced on put options just before the tariffs were reversed lmfao
oh no, numby go down
Those Bed, Bath and Beyond holders are going to be really upset.
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Didn't sell when warren did smh idiot
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