Five star post 💫

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Occasionally I pop up this ticker and look at the five year chart, and I think “goddamn, there’s folks who spent this whole time losing money talking about generational wealth.”

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I swear one day these SPY lottos are gonna hit and I'm going to make so much fucking money I can get a Bacon Cheeseburger at Five Guys

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"Who has five engines on the back of a boat?" Fishermen?!?

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They should of hit that boat five times

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I had no idea what I was looking at, so I asked the chatbot: What this person really did was borrow a huge amount of money to invest during a very strong market. When markets go up and you’re using borrowed money, your gains look amazing because you’re making money on far more than you actually own. That’s what leverage is: you might only have $2 million, but you’re effectively investing $7 million. When prices rise, you get paid as if all $7 million were yours. That’s why the returns look godlike. But leverage works in both directions. When the market drops, the losses also get multiplied. If your investments fall hard enough, your broker doesn’t politely “wait for the rebound.” They force sell your positions the moment your account drops below a safety threshold. That’s called liquidation. Once that happens, you’re not “down temporarily”, you are permanently out of the game, usually at the worst possible moment. The mistake this person keeps making is assuming the future will behave like the last six years. The reason this worked is not magic strategy, it’s because they invested during one of the most favorable periods in market history: ultra-low interest rates, booming tech stocks, stimulus money everywhere, and rising asset prices. Leverage looks brilliant during times like that. In a flat or crashing market, it becomes fatal. They also assume “borrowing is good as long as the interest rate is lower than my return.” That’s a dangerous misunderstanding. Markets don’t deliver smooth, predictable returns. They move in violent, uneven swings. You can be “right in the long run” and still go bankrupt short-term. Borrowing at 5% doesn’t matter if your account loses 50% before the recovery arrives. Debt doesn’t wait for your plan to work. Another problem is that diversification doesn’t protect you as much as people think when things go bad. When real financial stress hits, everything drops together stocks, bonds, real estate, crypto. This already happened in 2022. Diversification reduces pain during normal years, not during financial heart attacks. Leverage turns those heart attacks into flatlines. The math behind this is simple: if your account drops 50%, you need a 100% gain to recover; if it drops 75%, you need 300% just to break even. Leverage makes those deep holes much easier to fall into — and much harder to climb out of. One bad year can erase five good ones. Most importantly: success like this does **not** prove skill. Survivorship bias is at work. You are seeing the person who didn’t blow up. You don’t see the dozens who used leverage, lost everything, and quietly disappeared. Leverage always looks genius until the first serious crash shows up.

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Ok, but what caused it to suddenly drop an hour ago? My five dollar calls expiring January 20 27 dipped over 10% into the red and now they're back up... and the stock price has barely moved

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It's not even foresight, it's like five-sight.

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Remember!!! If you buy puts be sure to sell them five minutes later

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