The stones to YOLO all your wife’s inheritance into a single meme stock.
Would I maybe try to talk my wife into 20% riskier stuff? Yeah, probably.
You can be sure the rest is going into ETFs or blue chips.
You shouldn't have trusted yourself from the start when it comes to trading, but then you'd have never gotten to 1 mil in gains in one year. Because you did trust yourself (even though you shouldn't have) you went all in, made that dough, and lost it. You're no different than the guy who looks at Spy one day, see it going down, so decides next day it will probably go up and goes all in on 0dte calls. If it goes up a lot, he might think it could go down next day, and buys puts, also expiring the same day, also YOLO.
This works very well until it doesn't work at all.
# So, my friend (not me) accidentally yolo his life saving in a real estate shitcos and it's dropping like a rock every day for the last couple month.
# What do you suggest him (not me) do?
(he's (not me) still holding onto the bag)
Thanks
Yolo, its only 7k, and when you invested, you would have entered knowing that there's a risk it could be down to 0.
You'll feel better letting it go to 0 then seeing it go up and regretting it
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