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Somebody is about to lose their house on a coin they found in a Reddit comment.

The Financial Darwin Awards is your portfolio's support group. We collect the internet's most spectacular money losses so you can make different mistakes.

Somebody is about to lose their house on a coin they found in a Reddit comment.

Launching soon. Four times a week.


Every issue crowns one person who made the worst financial decision on the internet that week.

Then three runners up, because the competition is fierce.

You get the setup, the red flags everybody ignored, the exact dollar figure, and a plain english explanation of the mechanism that actually killed the trade. Leverage, margin calls, naked calls, liquidation distance. The stuff nobody explains until it happens to you.

Five minutes to read. A lifetime of other people's bad decisions to study.

Here is the part that surprises new readers: most of these traders were right. Right about the company, right about the direction, right about the thesis. They were wrong about position size and how long they could stay in the trade.

That is the lesson, and it is much cheaper to learn it here.

We laugh at the decisions, never at the people. Anyone can end up in an issue. That is rather the point.

Free, 4x a week

Learn from other people's worst trades.

Five minutes of reading. A lifetime of bad decisions to study. Your portfolio will thank you, eventually.

No spam. Just other people's mistakes.

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