Leonid Zadorozhnykh @ProDoser: "Losing money slowly takes patience...."

Finland

Losing money slowly takes patience. Losing it fast is a skill, and I have practiced it more than I would like to admit. Last time I covered the classic mistakes. Those are the vintage ones, the mistakes your uncle made in 2008. Here is the 2026 edition: ✅ Get your thesis from an anonymous account on X with an anime avatar and 900 followers. He said “few.” That is basically due diligence. ✅ Buy because someone posted a chart with two arrows drawn on it. One of the arrows was going up. Very compelling. ✅ Sell $MU (Micron Technology, Inc.) every time a Chinese lab releases a new model. Cheaper AI obviously means less demand for memory. Same way cheaper flights destroyed the airport business. ✅ Sell semiconductors because a paper claims 30% efficiency gains. When a technology gets cheaper, people always use less of it. ✅ Buy any company that said “AI” 47 times on the earnings call. Bonus points if it manufactures plumbing fittings. ✅ Follow the analyst who upgraded the stock after it doubled and downgraded it after it fell 40%. Timing is everything today! ✅ Trust an average $SPCX (Space Exploration Technologies Corp) price target of $240 on a stock trading near $120, and skip the part where the estimates range from $62 to $800. Somewhere in there is a real number. ✅ Buy the biggest IPO in history six days after it opened, near $225, because the crowd was loud and it only goes up. Just to become exit liquidity for early days investors. ✅ Bookmark a 40-post thread on valuation and never open it again. The bookmark is the analysis. ✅ Act on a screenshot of a screenshot of a headline. Source: a guy 😎 ✅ Reply “not financial advice” and then dispense financial advice with total confidence. ✅ Take portfolio guidance from a man in a rented Lamborghini, standing in front of a jet he will not be boarding. ✅ Reclassify a trade as a long-term investment the moment it turns red. Rebranding is free. ✅ Check the portfolio 14 times a day. It helps things compound. ✅ Buy $BTC at the end of bull cycle just because someone said on Facebook - 4 year circle is dead ✅ Decide you have a system because you were right once. The uncomfortable part is that almost all of this feels like research. Scrolling X all day feels like work. Saving threads feels like learning. Reacting fast to every headline feels like discipline. None of it is. The thing most of these have in common is speed. Somebody else set the pace, and you agreed to run at it. The anon account needed engagement. The IPO needed buyers at $225. The analyst needed to look correct this quarter. None of them needed you to be right in five years. I still catch myself doing at least four things on this list. The difference now is that I notice sooner and the position sizes are smaller. Which one on this list have you done in the past 12 months? I will go first. I checked my portfolio twice while writing this post. $SPCX $MU $MSFT (Microsoft) $SPX500 $BTC ——— ℹ️ Disclaimer: This post reflects my personal opinions and market observations and is not financial advice. 🤝 You can start copying my trades from just 300$ - check pinned post for more details. ⚠️ Past skyrocketing gains are not a guarantee of future results.

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