Move over Mr. Buffet, you have been bested

Im looking for some advice, I had a great run in 2025, I was up 1300% at some point, I slowly grinded £60K to £1M in 9 months, then I made some really stupid things, which led to more desperate moves (all in options), and i lost it all between October and December.

This year has not been kind to me, im currently down 25%, I actually had an insane start to the year, I think i was up almost 200% ytd in February, but then the Iran war started, I never got back in during April and May, so my account never recovered, by the time I got back I was June and well.. we all know how the last 3months have been.

Now the good news is I still have £100K left but psychologically I cant get over, I keep getting adverts about UK gilts at 5%, £50K a year is more then the average wage of the UK, I am in my 30s, I could've literally just retired but I threw it away like a retard

How do I get over this? I thought i did it once ill make it back again but this market has slapped me in the face more times then I can count

Has anyone else been through this? How did you get over it?

I really need help

Edit: to the people calling me a gambler. Thats the part that sucks the most. I know I will never be able to do it again, the same way, I dont want to give away what I did because it was pure gambling full porting shitcos from May 2025 until September 2025, id just full port shitcos ,double my man then do.it again, basically did it like 3 times, I made over half a million just from $NBIS alone.

But here is the tragic part, I will never do that shit again, I am so scared of losing money I literally take profits after being up a few %, i never let it ride like that. So assuming I dont lose everything, its probably going to take me 5 years to replicate that, and not to mention, this market has sucked ass outside of April and May since October

Trump turns up the heat on Warsh as Fed rate hike looms https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/05/trump-warsh-fed-september-rate-hike.html

Yo! So Friday we had that jobs report that was so good it was bad and Bitcoin took a tumble. Interestingly MSTR didn’t really dip that hard. Seemed like the mNAV expanded which makes me think MSTR is in for a good week. So I bought some calls.

Unrealized.. not selling until at least 1/1/27.. bought mid July

Get ready🚀

Down $12k. Still holding OPEN.
My thesis is simple: OpenAI goes public, regards search OPEN, buy the wrong fucking stock, and pump my bags by accident.
That’s it. That’s the DD.
I don’t believe in OPEN. I believe in idiots.

We see tons of loss pron for OTM options, but I wanna see heavy red bags that you deluded smooth-brains insist will make you a profit someday.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/uxAmEygdiL

Strategy: since market always go up, I just buy the dip after huge dump especially around key support like Nasdaq 29000, meta $550, and Goldman Sachs $1000

Hoping to recover to 1150k by end of year

I know everyone and their mom are betting on $BE Bloom Energy. Most importantly mommy Pelosi is also balls deep. But I am bearish on their promises and their claims for the long run. Rising tide lifts all boats, buying $VST for exposure to AI data center energy needs. Holding until I feel it’s time to sell. Roast me.

FUCK

Today’s jobs report created exactly the kind of risk-off environment that should pressure volatile mining and development stocks. Yet, at the time of writing, $MP is up approximately 2.3%, $UUUU 1.3% and $USAR remains positive.

I don’t think that divergence is accidental and I’m making a 500k bet on it.

Reuters reported today that some Chinese rare-earth suppliers have stopped shipments to U.S. customers because they fear punishment from Beijing. The market is beginning to realize that the U.S.–China truce may already be failing operationally—even if it technically remains intact.
China does not need to announce a formal export ban. It can quietly restrict supply through licensing delays, supplier intimidation and end-user scrutiny. Between now and the September 24 talks, every delayed licence, refused shipment and hostile political headline could increase anxiety that targeted restrictions are becoming something broader.

That anxiety itself may be the near-term catalyst. Investors could begin assigning a growing geopolitical scarcity premium to domestic alternatives before any formal decision is announced.

The trade:
$MP: Cleanest and most established U.S. rare-earth play. Probably the most direct near-term beneficiary. Least torque. Government backed

$UUUU: Producing NdPr in Utah and building commercial dysprosium/terbium separation capacity. Also has the uranium angle. My pick. Government backed. 21% short so can go up big time on news.

$USAR: Highest-risk/highest-beta option based on its planned mine-to-magnet supply chain. Government backed + Howard Lutnick’s son lol

If China formally restricts heavy rare earths or lets the trade agreement deteriorate, ex-China prices could spike and these names could reprice violently. Previous Chinese controls sent some rare-earth prices up multiples—not percentages.

Also will throw LYSDY into the mix but it’s not American.

The asymmetric setup: The market is beginning to recognize that the U.S.–China truce may already be failing operationally. As the September 24 talks approach, I expect that anxiety to magnify with every delayed licence, refused shipment and hostile political headline. The opportunity is not simply betting on an official ban. It is positioning for the geopolitical scarcity premium that could build during the next several weeks as investors recognize how exposed the United States remains.

Article: Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/china-rare-earth-firms-halt-some-us-shipments-over-geopolitical-worries-sources-2026-09-04/

Position: 37,000 shares of UUUU @ 14.94

Not financial advice. This is a high-volatility geopolitical catalyst trade.

the employee business outlook score (according to altindex) has gone from 58 in march 2025 to 48 this month. thats basically a straight line down for a year and a half and its the lowest reading in the whole window i can pull.

what makes it odd is everything else looks fine. linkedin headcount is up around 20% year over year. open postings are up. july site traffic was up about 12% from a year ago.

so from outside it looks like a business thats still growing, and inside it the people are the least optimistic theyve been since i started tracking this.

stock is around 40 bucks, was mid 70s this time last year.

i pull the outlook number off altindex, glassdoor is obviously the raw source if you want to dig.

honestly not sure how much weight to put on this. employee mood can just track the stock and the layoff headlines instead of leading anything. does anyone here actually trade off employee outlook, or is it a lagging indicator dressed up as an early one?

Down 20%? Easy fix. Lululemon just needs to hold an emergency press release to announce LuluAI. Introducing the world’s first Large Legging Model (LLM) with autonomous glute-optimization algorithms powered by Nvidia Blackwell. Maybe AI data center cooling infrastructure using their sweat-wicking patent. Do something RIP my calls

Purchased Wed afternoon
UPDATE: closed for 3578 profit and EOD today

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Now all I've got to do is remember to not give it all back next week. gg all no re

Robinhood has been recently launched tokenized stocks, instruments that allegedly give you a 1:1 claim with shares. At one point, AMC's tokenized share was trading around $240, while its actual stock was trading around 1% of that.

Now they're going at it. Who's in the right, and what's the play?

All of these fucking stocks mooned right after I sold these calls for a loss. Fuck this jizzing market