This is your portfolio's support group. Four times a week we collect the internet's most spectacular money losses, with the screenshots, so you can make different mistakes.
We keep score so nobody has to pretend it did not happen.
The single worst trade on the internet, with the P&L screenshot attached.
Three more losses that deserve a moment of silence and a short explanation.
73% of this week's losers used the word "guaranteed" in their thesis.
"It's not a loss if you don't sell." It is also not a house anymore.
They hit differently when you are reading from a portfolio that is down 96%.
Every story is a satirical composite. We laugh at the decisions, never at the people.
Why this exists →Tick every one you have talked yourself past. Be honest, nobody is watching.
A congressional report repriced a broker. An Ethereum upgrade shipped to the test network and a 20x long shipped to zero. The bond auction everybody was braced for went fine. And SpaceX told its shareholders the AI buildout will be paid for in bonds.
Read the damage →The index funds had finished buying on Monday. A price target was reached in the first minute and never seen again. A plague scare was assessed and downgraded. And a stock went to a record high on information that had been public since June.
Read the damage →An election surprised, a vaccine trial hit every endpoint, a logistics company bought a rival at a 29% premium, and an investor put $37.5 billion on a division nobody can buy yet. Four traders were standing on the far side of all of it.
Read the damage →Five minutes of reading. A lifetime of bad decisions to study. Your portfolio will thank you, eventually.
