What's your biggest trading regret? Or a few? Have you blown up a trading account? Give me sad juicy stories!

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- I bought apple at $86 bucks and sold at $126, in 2008 pre stock splits. That's like $20 per share...

- Bought $3,000 worth if HEMP, now it's worth $25... blown!

- Took $15,000 of my IRA, turned it into $6,000 investing in triple leveraged Biotech stocks right before the EpiPen debacle.

- Investesd in Luckin Coffee... now the stock is halted.

The account that is best performing is my 401k, you know why, because I dont touch it

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Stonks!

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Gave money to my wife

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Sold 700 AAPL, 80 amzn and 120 NFLX in September at $222, $1850 and $320. Now all of them are at all times highs :/

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Sold AMZN to buy a house last year. Did not re-enter at 1,700 because Iā€™m an actual dumb person.

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I got into crypto in early 2017. I was hooked on alt coins, and was thinking I was about to find the next bitcoin boom (not the 2017 boom, the first jump to $1000). I did a lot of research and followed dash and xrp which exploaded within the first few months I started following alt coins. I looked more into alt coins and was looking for the next set of coins to boom and landed on PIVX and XVG. I ended up making 50% on PIVX, and honesty wasnā€™t the greatest pick looking back. But I also bought XVG at the price of 1 satoshi. Hindsight is 20/20, but in theory that buy would have gone up 1500x on top of the price of btc going 15x if I sold at the right time. I think I sold it at 3-5 satoshi (300-500% gain). I would have easily cleared 7 figures with perfect timing, but I thought the coin was going to die so got out.

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Sold NVDA at $13 in 2015

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Not investing sooner in my early 20s

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Recently not buy TSLA at $450ish because I was scared the market was going to continue dropping. Oh but I did get LK šŸ˜‘

Bought Facebook at sub 30 sold at around 65

Was long on 2x leveraged ETNs for a few years.. then purchased a lot more during the dip.. 3 of 4 ETNs liquidated by end of March.. lost $10K. Never buying ETNs again..

XIV.... nuff said šŸ˜¢

Currently holding $5 USO calls. Betting on oil in this economy :(

Also, selling my SPY call too soon. Paid $1k and sold too soon. It's now $4k

I traded my freedom for ā€œmarriageā€ and lost half my money....

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