A coworker showed me he was up $260 over a month of investing on Robinhood, so I decided to give it a try. Deposited $525 into a margin account. My wife was two months pregnant.

    After seven months building it over 50k, and an SNDK $550 2/27 c sold for profit while wife was sleeping in the hospital bed, I built the account up to $89,000.

    My daughter was born 3 months ago. Here you see my 3 month timeline.

    From that day, I have made incredibly horrible stupid plays, and burned it all the way back down.

    My biggest losses, screenshots attached, all were 100% revenge trades trying to chase trades that were barely wrong.

    MULTIPLE times I owned 25+ contracts of SPYX at 1.50, would sell them for 3.50 because the infant is needing more attention, only to realize that they ended the day worth 48.50…. but the times I don't sell and walk away it absolutely craters. Y'all know how it is. Casual fumble of 140,000 profit trade.

    Was holding SNDK 880c and was worried my position would be destroyed while I'm feeding the baby so I exit and it heads to 1100.

    Two Disclaimers:

    This is not my retirement it all came from $500 and I did also withdraw $20,000 in march to start an Edward jones account for the kiddo. So if anything my 500 turned into 20,000 for her. (Even though I blame this as the reason I started revenge trading. Trying to make back that 20k instantly.)

    Two weeks ago, I decided I hate Robinhood and took my last 7k into WeBull and bought puts on CAR before it fell so I'm up pretty big again.

    https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1t1k7jf

    Posted by DankKnightLP

    26 Comments

    1. Every wsb fathers dream is to create generational debt for their child, congrats!

    2. gamersEmpire on

      I sure hope she didnt inherit more chromosomes from the paternal side

    3. The good news is you made a decision, family over money. You made the right choice and pulled out on time. The edward jones account also is telling you’re gonna be a great dad (better than the regards on this sub for sure). You did the right thing. Don’t beat yourself up about it. Save a sccreenshot of this post and my comment and show it to the kiddo one day when they grow up. He/she’s gonna love you even more.

    4. Get some FIG call and make it all back and more. Life’s just a game.

    5. MaxEhrlich on

      First time I’ve seen someone blame their baby for shit trading, truly regarded and well belonged here.

    6. Ill-Trip7965 on

      You basically speedran the entire WSB character arc in like 9 months 😂

      Turning 500 into 20k for the kid is already a mega W, everything after that is just gambling stories for her to laugh at when she is older. Lock in some boring long term stuff for her and then feel free to degenerate with the rest, just don’t revenge trade trying to “fix” the EJ withdrawal again.

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