# Dumb Money

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## Posts
- [Someone Shorted Oil the Week a War Broke Out. Lost $70,000.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/someone-shorted-oil-the-week-a-war-broke-out-lost-70-000): Five contracts, $40,000 in margin, eight days to a margin call.
- [Conviction" Is Not a Calendar Entry. The Lockup Expiry Was.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/conviction-is-not-a-calendar-entry-the-lockup-expiry-was): His wife called it delusion. His broker calculated it at negative fifty-three percent.
- [VELA Gapped Down 20%. The Calls Were Priced for 8%.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/vela-gapped-down-20-the-calls-were-priced-for-8): He sold the remains for $300. The other $142,900 is gone.
- [Four Words. Fourteen Months. Forty-Seven Thousand Dollars.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/four-words-fourteen-months-forty-seven-thousand-dollars): "It's Apex. It's temporary." At press time: still temporary.
- [He Averaged Down on JOBY Four Times. The Flying Taxis Have Still Not Flown.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/he-averaged-down-on-joby-four-times-the-flying-taxis-have-still-not-flown): Averaged down at $13.80, $12, $11, $10.50, and $9.50. The app is now in a folder called Utilities.
- [DUOL Fell 80%. He Bought Five Times on the Way Down.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/duol-fell-80-he-bought-five-times-on-the-way-down): The top comment was two words. He did not follow the advice.
- [MRVL Beat Earnings. The Calls Expired Worthless.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/mrvl-beat-earnings-the-calls-expired-worthless): He bought 300 calls on the dip. The dip had two more weeks of work left to do.
- ["I Was Early, Not Wrong."](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/i-was-early-not-wrong): He's already planning to load up again once the squeeze clears. The thesis is intact.
- [The Market Is Wrong, Actually](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/the-market-is-wrong-actually): The company, the analysts, the press release, and the margin call all disagreed. He remains convinced.
- [Routine Fed Remarks. 0.8% Rally. One Man's $187,400 Was Gone by p.m.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/routine-fed-remarks-0-8-rally-one-man-s-187-400-was-gone-by-p-m): Same-day options, flat open, then a minor drift up. Cost per minute held: $708.
- [Korean Retail Lost $38.7 Billion on Leveraged Chip ETFs. Our Guy Contributed.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/korean-retail-lost-38-7-billion-on-leveraged-chip-etfs-our-guy-contributed): The AI memory thesis was directionally correct. The margin-on-top-of-margin approach was not.
- [$155,000 Across Three Accounts and Zero Lessons Learned](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/155-000-across-three-accounts-and-zero-lessons-learned): One of them asked if margin calls expire. Another plans to average down on Monday. With what money remains an open question.
- [The Collateral Was His House. The Trade Was a Weekly Call Option.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/the-collateral-was-his-house-the-trade-was-a-weekly-call-option): Four hundred contracts at the $44 strike. Five days to expiration. The stock opened flat the next morning.
- [Is There a Way to Reverse a Liquidation" — No Question Mark, Just a Man in Defeat](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/is-there-a-way-to-reverse-a-liquidation-no-question-mark-just-a-man-in-defeat): There is not. The broker's support page does not have a category for reversing liquidations.
- [53% Revenue Growth. -100% Return.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/53-revenue-growth-100-return): The DD post used the phrase "literally free money" twice in the same paragraph. Past tense.
- [He Got His Oil Thesis From a TikTok Analyst in a Cargo Vest](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/he-got-his-oil-thesis-from-a-tiktok-analyst-in-a-cargo-vest-0d74): The vest was not a credential. The five-day expiry did not care.
- [He Got His Oil Thesis From a TikTok Analyst in a Cargo Vest](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/he-got-his-oil-thesis-from-a-tiktok-analyst-in-a-cargo-vest): The vest was not a credential. The five-day expiry did not care.
- [$906 Cushion. $102 Million Position. One Bad Candle.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/906-cushion-102-million-position-one-bad-candle): The position survived three days of sideways price action. Day four had different plans.
- [Same Wallet. Phished Again. $49.8 Million Total, for Those Keeping Score.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/same-wallet-phished-again-49-8-million-total-for-those-keeping-score): The first attacker returned 90% of the funds. The second one considered that optional.
- [Reddit Beat Revenue by $73 Million. The Calls Expired at One Cent.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/reddit-beat-revenue-by-73-million-the-calls-expired-at-one-cent): Two years of staking rewards came to $200,000. The position is down $6,000,000.
- [$311,000 in Losses. Three Accounts. One Very Productive Week.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/311-000-in-losses-three-accounts-one-very-productive-week): A $134K options bet the day before earnings, a 50x Bitcoin long liquidated in 19 minutes, and a biotech margin position wiped out by a failed Phase 3 trial.
- [He Turned $167,000 Into $340 in About 90 Minutes](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/he-turned-167-000-into-340-in-about-90-minutes): $282,100 lost across an earnings play that expired worthless, a memecoin that lived 14 minutes, and a 20x natural gas long that never had a chance.
- [783 Bitcoin. One Phone Call.](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/783-bitcoin-one-phone-call): The funds cleared through a Bitcoin mixer in a single transaction. On-chain investigators found the trail. That's roughly where the good news ends.
- [$354,020 Lost. Zero SEC Filings Read](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/354-020-lost-zero-sec-filings-read): One IPO, one earnings bet, one crypto position shorter than a lunch break. All three at zero
- [He Looped NFT Leverage Three Times Right Before the Art Scandal](https://dumbmoneymarket.com/p/he-looped-nft-leverage-three-times-right-before-the-art-scandal): $157,700 lost across a leveraged NFT loan, an ill-timed options wheel, and a reverse-split rally that never came