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One of the great things about being broke white trash with a lifetime of poor choices behind me is, chances are pretty good I wont ever look at one of my trades/investments and think "wow, that would have been life changing money had I just (insert choice other than the one I made here)".

Most of my positions are small enough that nothing any single one of them will ever do will make a significant impact, but hopefully, eventually the sum total will?
 
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fris

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considering what, half the US has no savings? i wouldn't call yourself broke if you have anything invested
 
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Gravel

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fris said:
Not buying more when it dipped below IPO price will be one of my lifelong regrets.

2nd to buy buying Darden when it bottomed during COVID. My best friend managed a high end restaurant and told me he was delivering orders to keep the restaurant afloat. I knew it would rebound after the lockdown, I just didn't want to commit any cash I had cause I was afraid of losing my job. Darden dropped to $26 and was back to 163 6 months later.
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Yeah, I just didn't have the patience for it. I figured it'd definitely go up, but I thought it might settle around $40-50.

No big deal though, I only had my AMC remnants in it, and even if I'd held until now would've only been worth about $3500.
 
tugofpeace

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There used to be a trading thread on the bodybuilding forums I came from back in the day. I swear, there was one poster who did nothing but advocate for PLTR all the way since its' IPO. Dude loaded up hard, he must be doing very well now. Didn't matter WHAT was happening in the market, he would always pop in and be like "good time to buy PLTR"

Everyone, including myself, thought he was just a troll
 
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Falstaff

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I sold 15079 shares at $73 when it hit a stop I had set. 8 months later and those shares are worth 7 figures more than what I made.

Oh well.
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This is like me when I ignored suineg trying to get me to buy bitcoin at $4. I would have lost the wallet and been depressed.

oh well is right!
 
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Foler

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RKLB up 13% since open to new ATH of 52. Who’s riding this thing to Pluto with me? This baby can’t stop won’t stop!
 
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Sanrith Descartes

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My $135 covered calls on AMD expiring tomorrow are drowning underwater. Rolled them out to Dec at the same strike. Net gain was almost $10 a share.
 
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I owned this stock many times all the way back from its SPAC days. The location has never been successful in its history. Bought a bunch of puts at this price action. I'm betting small to win big on volume. I got 5 months for the share price to come back to reality. Its a straight up gamble but those $30 strikes looked tasty. I don't care if it hits $30, I just need it to deflate some for profits.

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tugofpeace said:
I'm surprised you roll out that far
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They are covered calls. I am losing them tomorrow if I stand pat. Absolute worst case scenario I lose them in Dec and pocket an extra $10 a share. I am baking in time value plus the higher IV from when I sold them.
 
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tugofpeace said:
There used to be a trading thread on the bodybuilding forums I came from back in the day. I swear, there was one poster who did nothing but advocate for PLTR all the way since its' IPO. Dude loaded up hard, he must be doing very well now. Didn't matter WHAT was happening in the market, he would always pop in and be like "good time to buy PLTR"

Everyone, including myself, thought he was just a troll
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That was Elias, lest we forget
 
Rangoth

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Interdasting..... I have never been impacted by the rule either by ignorance, luck, or lack of multiple inter-day trades. What is the reasoning and thought behind the rule and change? I suspect the rule was to prevent idiots? But if people want to gamble I say let them, we don't stop anyone at vegas until they get violent. This would open up the door to a lot more daily volume I suspect.

Are there numbers of what % daily volume/cash flow is retail or not? AI answered this:

Retail traders currently account for a significant portion of daily trading volume in the stock market. Estimates generally place this figure around 20-25% of total equities trading volume.
For example:

  • Several sources, including reports from 2021 and 2023, state that retail investors comprised 25% of total equities trading volume, nearly doubling the percentage from a decade prior.
  • More recent data from May 2025 indicates that retail's share of overall shares traded in the market was around 20%, with a peak of 21% in May 2025.
  • Nasdaq noted that retail value traded remains around 6.5% of market-wide trading (in dollar terms), but is an even higher proportion of share volumes, recently touching 9%, partly because retail tends to trade more in lower-priced stocks.
Regarding "daily cash flow," it's more common to see discussions about retail's percentage of trading volume (shares traded or notional value traded) rather than a specific "cash flow" metric. However, the figures for value traded (like Nasdaq's 6.5% of market-wide value traded) directly relate to the cash flow generated by retail trading activity.
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EDIT: now that I think of it, it's due to the settlement time really(potentially). Because if settlement were instant and I had 1k in my account, I should be able to trade that as many times as I want until I lose it, but I guess the old +3 days and now the +1 day means you really don't have 1k after the first trade until tomorrow.
 
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Jysin

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Some wild shit in retail land today. Opened +100% and proceeded to dump out the gate on market open.

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