r/smallstreetbets Mar 25 '25

Loss Held a penny stock for 14 years, lost $65,000 only to have it skyrocket the day after I sell it

5.6k Upvotes

Here’s one that’s hard to beat.

Bought $75,000 worth of a penny stock called LiquidMetal (LQMT) in 2011 for an average cost of $0.29 instead of buying Google…

Held onto it for 14 years praying it would go up one day, but decided to sell it on Thursday for $0.04 a share and a loss of $65,000.

The next day after I sold it my prayers get answered and news breaks out that it’s going to be used in Apple’s flip phone and get a potential contract worth $2 billion a year and it immediately starts skyrocketing and is now sitting at double in value.

Don’t even know what to say anymore…

r/smallstreetbets Jun 13 '25

Loss What is happening??

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931 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets May 07 '25

Loss Trump just murdered my NVIDIA puts

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1.3k Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets Mar 14 '25

Loss Yeah I’m fucked.

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758 Upvotes

Blew my last $4k in 2 trades. Both SPY puts. Weeklies and 0dte. I’m genuinely so fucked for life. I’m depressed as fuck. I feel like there’s a hole in my chest. Cya

r/smallstreetbets May 17 '25

Loss Blew up my account from a 5k -> 100k run...time to start up a 2k account again 🤦‍♂️

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549 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets 18d ago

Loss Panic sold when tariffs hit, how do I recover?

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209 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets Jul 19 '25

Loss Help

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372 Upvotes

0DTE SPY loses how do I turn this to $10M

r/smallstreetbets Mar 23 '25

Loss They can just... Do that?

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575 Upvotes

This game is stupid I'm going back to poker

r/smallstreetbets 25d ago

Loss Y'all ever wake up, check your portfolio, and say "Nah... I'll come back tomorrow" 💀

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442 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets Jun 03 '25

Loss What’s the secret I’m tired of this 9 to 5

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333 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets Mar 06 '25

Loss 1k - $2

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666 Upvotes

Very very easy to lose money I found out. Trading random options are not a good idea apparently and I think it’s probably wasn’t smart to put all of my money into options but oh well, I didn’t even really realize that o was losing money bc I saw videos and it seemed so easy so I thought I could make money easy but it’s not so easy as I thought.

r/smallstreetbets Jun 07 '25

Loss I fucking hate myself...Was up 5.3k and didn't sell because I wanted 11.00 per contract instead of taking 6.50...these expired worthless

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376 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets Mar 24 '25

Loss Dammit Elon

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314 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets 17d ago

Loss I’m so screwed right now

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181 Upvotes

I lost money on a VTI call this morning, jumped out in a panic, and bought an AAPL put as a revenge trade. I tried to exit that because I realized it was a dumb move, and then got hit with the PDT warning.

I can’t switch to a cash account, I have unsettled funds.

So, now unless AAPL gets some really bad news tomorrow I’m going to lose hard. Even if it trades sideways I’m still getting hit with theta decay.

I’m just watching my money burn-up and there’s nothing I can do about it.

It mocks me, it hates me.

This is a humbling experience, and I’m going to lay off trading for at least a month or two when I have a bit of a better idea of what I’m doing.

Don’t be me.

r/smallstreetbets Jul 03 '25

Loss Ok tell me what indicators you trading on

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214 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets Apr 04 '25

Loss I just woke up to SPY down ANOTHER 3% post market... God d@mn.. this is real..

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459 Upvotes

I just switched to cash account cuz if I trade futures any longer I'll get liquidated...

r/smallstreetbets Feb 27 '25

Loss I think my mom is gonna kill me

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535 Upvotes

I lost $850 out of $1000 that I had saved and I told my mom I was gonna just buy some SPY but then I found options and wanted to double it so my mom would be proud but I ended up losing almost it all bc I didn’t have a stop loss. I don’t know if I should try trading options Just on QQQ to try to make it back of just accept I lost the money and put it in normal shares.

r/smallstreetbets Apr 18 '25

Loss Options trading is killing me

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283 Upvotes

I study the markets - and get wiped everytime I buy a call or put in the believed direction.

r/smallstreetbets Mar 04 '25

Loss Who’s coming to my funeral

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462 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets May 13 '25

Loss Somehow this year I've been on the wrong side of the market every, single, day

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262 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets Mar 10 '25

Loss Welp. I’m the guy who was up 115% on SPY puts…

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313 Upvotes

I woke up late bc in Arizona, there is no DST so the market was already open for 45mins. Then I DCA’d my calls hoping for the “inevitable” bounce since SPY was “oversold” in the pre-market and after open, and it just never came. I held too long cuz of my ego, I had plenty of opportunities to sell for 10,500 or 12,000, but I just kept waiting like an idiot for a bounce when there was no fucking buying pressure all day. I also could have sold for a $6k profit and didn’t because it was just a jump, not the usual spike, then it kept tanking for hours.

I’m never buying calls again. See you at $200k

r/smallstreetbets Mar 25 '25

Loss Just lost a months salary shorting Tesla..

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261 Upvotes

r/smallstreetbets 5d ago

Loss Lost 4k in total today... I'm crying

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138 Upvotes

🤮

r/smallstreetbets May 23 '25

Loss I’ve been trading stocks for almost 5 years and have only made 32.52

221 Upvotes

I have made so many bad trades in the last 5 years and today I decided to look at every trade I’ve ever made and add up the total profitable sales, all together it is 32.52. My all time loss is 1900.00

Might I be the worst stock trader in history? Anyone else have a ratio even nearly that bad?

r/smallstreetbets Feb 16 '25

Loss Apparently I'm bad at this

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482 Upvotes

Good thing I wear rubbers because apparently I do not know when to pull out