r/wallstreetbets • u/LifeIsYoursLiveIt • 18h ago

Loss Lost $7,200 in TSLA... in 28 minutes.

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At 10:19am I placed an order to buy 60 contracts of TSLA $240.00 Put... Was a market order and still didn't fucking place. So I canceled a couple minutes later. I would've made $20k.

At 10:47am I bought 32 contracts of TSLA $235.00 Put @ $279.00 per contract. TSLA skyrocketed ten fucking dollars right after.

At 11:17am I couldn't take it anymore and sold all 32 contracts of TSLA $235.00 Put for an average of $54.00 per contract.

-$7,200 in 28 minutes. Tesla has beaten me down in the equity in my model 3 performance, in the stock market, and now in the form of options. I hate you Tesla.

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u/Formal_Direction_680 17h ago

Paper hands do that to you, I’d know, I left 18k on the table for taking gains too early on SPY puts today

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u/_DannyG_ 17h ago

Leaving money on the table is so different than a loss though. That's why yall are gambling addicts. Respectfully.

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u/Useful_Intern4114 16h ago

Technically I left money on the table on puts today but 120% gain is absolutely crazy. And that’s what I secured. So I’m happy, I’ve got a new put position I’m holding until Monday. Let’s see how that goes…

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u/Big-Muffin69 14h ago

Yeah thats the problem, i was already betting a sizable chunk of cash on shorting Trumps liquidation day, id rather just take the money and exit the casino. I got bills to pay son!

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u/Useful_Intern4114 14h ago

Gains are always better than losses. You live to play another day

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u/Intelligent_Jelly_26 15h ago

Stonk Market Kama Sutra, switching positions often to reach elation

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u/Big-Muffin69 12h ago

I find switching positions has a high chance of getting fucked in both ends but what do i know, im just a 🌈 🐻

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u/ChocolateDragonTails 16h ago

Baseline 10% tariffs go into effect tomorrow (April 5th), larger tariffs go into effect April 9th, imo it's only going to keep getting worse next week, and all the better for us degens

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u/Folkdawg89 9h ago

Sure everyone is thinking this and probably will buy puts after being slaughtered holding calls. So expect a mini pump to absolutely destroy whatever’s left of their soul.

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u/Illicit_Trades 8h ago

This☝️ matter fact, look at a fib extension on the daily spy chart. It's hit the 0% line at the end of market today. Watch it do the old bear market bounce next week then nose dive for the next 9 months💪😉🍾

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u/TrentonMade 6h ago

Pre-Covid trend line is what I’m watching for potential calls.

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u/BigSeth 4h ago

I'm a regard, how do I read this

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u/justhp 8h ago

anyone who is holding calls (besides LEAPS) is an absolute idiot.

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u/BigSeth 4h ago

I'm literally not buying in until I see a pump of any kind, if it's money lost, so be it. There needs to be a rally, expecting sustained decline is as stupid as expecting sustained growth. Regardless of market conditions

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u/Hot_Ad_7614 7h ago

Market is already pricing in all that bro.

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u/StonkaTrucks 16h ago

Meanwhile I'm over here trying to buy calls.

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u/ThreeEyedAngel 15h ago

Buy VIX calls then

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u/StonkaTrucks 15h ago

Those are annoying since they don't move as much as you think they should.

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u/Guderian- 14h ago

Booked 25% on Vix Apr 15 futures today. Twas moving way too much for me to be comfortable.

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u/Majestic-Trader 12h ago

Or SPXS….

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u/s3ver1na 11h ago

This. ^

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u/justhp 8h ago

tell me what you are buying calls on so you can be my exit liquidity

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u/fragged6 15h ago

Hopeful regards(we are).

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u/Useful_Intern4114 15h ago

May the least regarded win! (Pls be me I’ve lost so much money this year)

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u/Commercial-Tell-2509 12h ago

I’m going to say 6 weeks out… we are in the cradle. I’ve been waiting!

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u/Saltlife_Junkie 11h ago

Dear God seriously? Lol regarded

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u/Megg187 11h ago

All puts for a while

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u/ClevelandDrunks1999 15h ago

Same I left about $2k on the table with the 250p for Tesla but took my $1500 from it will wait until Monday I swung a 500p on spy

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u/Majestic-Trader 12h ago

We…why weeeeee are addicts…you’re in here too homie lolz

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u/Prize-Bumblebee-2192 16h ago

A W is a W.

Could have been waiting for more and losing in the end.

Once I take my win, I don’t look at the option until next business day if applicable to re-enter.

Keeps my head straight and focused on facts - the money I have as a result and not the money I could have had

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u/gounatos 16h ago

Cant go bankrupt by leaving money on the table bro

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u/StonkaTrucks 16h ago

I just blew my account yesterday because I left money on the table on Wednesday.

Hard to be a robot, even for an autist like me who doesn't even care about money.

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u/gounatos 15h ago

I left a shit ton of money by selling some of my Puts yesterday. But at least i wasn't stressed about 🥭chickening out today and fucking me with a green day.

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u/StonkaTrucks 15h ago

I've been buying calls.

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u/xMyDixieWreckedx 12h ago

Same! I lost 1,200 because I'm a paper handed bitch. That would have been 35k if I had held instead of getting scared during an uptick yesterday. FML

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u/PugSilverbane 9h ago

My paper hands knocked me out of massive SPY two-day on Wednesday before the tariffs, and again today with my $517 SPY puts… if I had fallen asleep or been hit by a bus, I would have woken up in heaven one way or the other.

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u/Ashleynn 15h ago

I sold 519 put i held over night at open... it was up 1000% but uhhh yeah

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u/Informal_Action_1326 14h ago

nah today u cant even be mad tjo when the chart has this many pullbacks

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u/zfish1 12h ago

I had 30 525p's for 6/20 I sold two days ago for 145% profit. They up 425% rn. 85k

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u/theo258 12h ago

I had spy $540 put for 2.50 and sold them yesterday for 5.5. They close at 34.57 😭

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u/TheHowlerTwo 11h ago

There’s no such thing as taking early gains! They aren’t gains until you take them!!! No sweat brother !!

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u/Immediate-Sky9959 8h ago

no one ever went broke taking a profit

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u/Immediate-Sky9959 8h ago

Pigs get slaughtered

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u/BigSeth 4h ago

Same, if I held my 10 210s I would have come out with about 11k during the end of day dump.

Think of the gains and not the potential and you'll feel much better about it.