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LOSS OF THE DAY 🏆

Every day we crown one person who made the worst financial decision on the internet.

Today's winner found a way to lose $167,412 in a single trading session. On a stock that was already up 58% in a month.

Here's the setup. ServerCore Inc. surged from $24 to $38 between mid-July and mid-August. AI server hype. Short squeeze chatter. The stock had gone parabolic.

Most people saw a stock that had already ripped 58%. u/smci_comeback_king saw more room to run.

He bought 400 weekly call contracts. Strike price $44. Expiring in five days. Total premium paid: $167,412.

His thesis? Three words, posted in r/wallstreetbets: "Breakout is coming."

One problem: ServerCore had already diluted shareholders with a $7 billion offering back in June. The rally stalled the next morning, and the stock opened flat.

He took out a HELOC to buy weekly call options on a stock that was already up 58%.

His calls went from out of the money to out of the galaxy. They expired worthless three days later.

Quick explainer on weekly options: weekly call options expire in days, not months. If the stock doesn't move above your strike price by Friday, you lose 100% of your money. There is no partial credit. Buying 400 of them on a stock that has already run up 58% is not a strategy. It is a very expensive way to say "I didn't read the earnings transcript."

The DD that convinced him was a chart with a circle drawn around a resistance level. The caption: "It has to break here." It did not have to break there. It did not break there.

Not everybody can be Loss of the Day. But these two gave it a real shot.

Let's run through the tape.

There was a government agency with the abbreviation D.O.G.E. It had nothing to do with Dogecoin.

u/doge_to_mars_2026 did not make this distinction.

He saw a viral post about D.O.G.E. budget cuts. He interpreted this as bullish for the cryptocurrency. He went 75x long on Dogecoin futures. $38,700 in collateral.

75x leverage on a joke coin because of a government acronym.

Dogecoin dropped 2.8% over the next 23 minutes on broader crypto weakness. Nothing to do with the acronym. Nothing to do with anything.

He was liquidated before his celebration post finished uploading.

Quick math on 75x leverage: at 75x, your position is 75 times your collateral. A 1.3% move against you wipes out 100% of your money. Dogecoin moves 1.3% while you're brushing your teeth. This is not an investment. It is a coin flip with extra steps.

You can't make this up. But he did, and then he traded on it.

u/metals_are_dead shorted gold futures at $4,285 per ounce. His thesis: inflation was cooling, the Fed was about to cut, and gold had no reason to rally further.

Then the Middle East escalated.

Gold spiked 5.4% in two sessions to $4,516. His short was underwater by $52,418.

He added to the position on the first day. "Dead cat bounce," he wrote.

He shorted a safe-haven asset during a geopolitical crisis. The oldest mistake in the commodities playbook.

His broker sent the margin call at 6:47 AM. He was asleep. Gold doesn't care about your sleep schedule.

We track the data because the data is funnier than anything we could make up.

The pattern is always the same. The asset changes. The leverage changes. The confidence never does.

We've been tracking it for weeks. Every time someone posts a one-line thesis with zero analysis, the average outcome is a total loss. More reliable than any technical indicator on the market.

See you tomorrow. The numbers will be different. The behavior won't be.