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    Make money when I’m drunk trading then lost it all when I am actually sober

    I think I trade OTM options better when I’m drunk and I genuinely don’t know what to do with this information anymore.

    Last Friday NVDA closed around 206 after another stupid AI rally and every headline was basically “yeah valuations make no sense but it’s still going higher anyway.” I was like 5 fucking whiskey deep eating cold leftover fried rice at 1AM and opened Robinhood because apparently that’s what financially responsible adults do now. Total position was like 5k.

    I wake up Monday hungover thinking I probably donated money to Citadel again and somehow NVDA opens around 211 and those contracts were over 1.30.

    Then sober me watches market videos. Sober me reads macro threads. So by Wednesday I convince myself NVDA obviously can’t keep squeezing after the run it already had and I roll most of the gains into deep OTM 190 puts expiring this Friday. Bought them around 92 cents. Then absolutely nothing happened.

    NVDA barely dipped. IV died. Theta started executing me publicly every hour. Contracts slowly collapsed from 92 cents to like 17 cents while I stared at my phone pretending “the real move happens tomorrow.” Sold almost the bottom Thursday afternoon right before the stock bounced again because of course it did.

    I literally turned a winning week into instant noodles because I temporarily believed I understood macroeconomics.

    The worst part is drunk me somehow trades better because he doesn’t overthink anything. Drunk me sees green candles and goes “nice.” Sober me starts watching fake news media to make short term bets.

    At this point I’m honestly considering replacing TradingView with fucking whiskey.

    Make money when I'm drunk trading then lost it all when I am actually sober
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    19 Comments

    4. InitiativeGlum2507 on

      Just imagine how successful you’d be if you were literally anyone but you

    8. Antique-Campaign-738 on

      It’s a casino of luck you stupid bastard, doesn’t matter how you do it.

      Thanks for your donation though

    9. Technical_Tank7174 on

      Doing less is more. You don’t have to catch the next big thing. You can relax a bit and wait for a good opportunity with proper confirmation.

    12. Flat-Foundation-6050 on

      Drunk you is not smarter, he just doesn’t have enough brain cells online to sabotage himself with “macro.”

      You basically discovered the entire edge of WSB: enter on vibes, exit when green, never let your inner economist touch the keyboard.

      Lock in gains next time and let drunk you be head of entries while sober you is only allowed to hit “sell” and close the app.

    13. SpecificOdd3673 on

      That’s not drunk-you being “better,” that’s just less overthinking and more randomness lining up once, then sober-you tries to force a narrative and overtrades it. Options, especially OTM, will punish that every time because theta and IV don’t care about conviction. I went through something similar and realized trying to outplay short-term moves consistently is way harder than it looks. That’s why I shifted most of my focus away from active trading and just keep BTC as a core, using CoinDepo for steady yield so I’m not relying on split-second decisions or emotional trades to stay profitable.

    15. psymeariver on

      If you throw enough shit at the wall some of it will stick, whether you’re drunk or sober.

    16. Pioneer1072 on

      It’s just the fact that your risk tolerance goes up and a little luck pushes the wilder variance in your favor. If you start drinking and trading daily then we can talk if it works.

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