Submitted by zuzka_123 t3_10aybvg in wallstreetbets
Hi guys! I decided to share my story with you because none of my friends irl trade or invest their money so they don't understand how it is possible to lose it so fast. (I didn't lose big numbers because I'm from Poland)
RUN I
So my first what I like to call a "RUN" started 2 years ago when I was in high school. I worked through the summer of 2020 and made a couple of grand. As a rational 16 y/o I decided that mere consumptionism is beneath me for I am more ambitious that the rest of the society, oh how wrong I was. I started with trading what I thought were stock (CFDs) with fixed 20x leverage. As you could predict after 2 months of trading I lost everything and got depressed, completely neglected school and made the worst decision of my life, got into crypto.
RUN II
So in 2021 I bought a gaming laptop with rtx3060 and heard you can make some money by mining crypto. At the time I thought crypto was I scam, but hey, who says no to free money right? So after mining it I thought that it is such a waste for it to just sit in my wallet and started trading with it (don't fucking do it). I got rugged in crypto more time than I can count. Every single project that I got into was a scam, tried some airdrop hunting but all I got from it was 2 USDT and 1 coin that I decided to hold and it went from $100 to $0.05. Lost everything again.
RUN III
So we fast forward to 2022, my 18th birthday so I get a lot of money from my family and friends. And as a young and ambitious man I decided that mere consumptionism is beneath me (again!) and put 50% of my life savings into a certain crypto ponzi called Time Wonderland. And of course as a young and ambitious man I decided that mere spot holding is beneath and used leverage (please don't do this). After 3 days there was a massive liquidation of founder of the said ponzi and I got liquidated. Lost half of the money I got for my birthday in 3 just 3 fucking days. After that I decided to quit crypto and went back to trading CFDs. Longed the shit out of DAX 2 days before Russia attacked Ukraine and lost the other half of the money.
RUN IV (the last one so far)
So I live in Poland and we border Russia and after the war in Ukraine started, our government started a REALLY good marketing campaign of the military forces. So after finishing high school and being a broke degenerate I decided to join the army. Fast forward next month I get my first military salary and go back to trading. After losing everything in crypto 2 times I decided that the lessons were learnt and it's time to make it all back. Summer 2022 Ethereum goes up from $1000 to $2000 due to the merge narrative. Shorted the shit out of it at the beginning of September with 20x leverage and made like $10k (more than the average yearly salary in my country). That's actually the only time when I made a lot of money. Than shorted another coin (don't even remember the name, just dumb fucking luck) and made another $10k, all in the span of one week. And after making what a the time for me was a life changing money I decided to yolo it all trading altcoins with high leverage, lost almost everything by the and of September 2022. Lost my last pennies in FTX crash trying to long their token, I know it's really fucking stupid, I also longed LUNA during the crash, I'm just really bad at trading.
RUN V, when ??
So right now I study Computer Science and accumulate money to make it all turbo back trading, I know I don't learn any lessons I'm a gambler. I really love trading and want to do this for the rest of my life but feel like I'm addicted to it. Sometimes when I was about to get liquidated I would stare at the charts an literally pray (even though I'm atheist) not to get to.
What do I do? Should I stop or keep grinding and just hope to get lucky?
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UPDATE I:
The fifth run is going to happen sooner than later, I think I will start with $1k and (hopefully) get to $10k. If not than I will have some loses to flex!
Will cover it on my YouTube
UPDATE II:
I'm currently long $LINK, you may want to countertrade me, I'm very bad at it.
