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Think back to January 4th for a moment. Probably no other financial instrument better captures the frustrating circumstances of the market than our beloved EFA. What a month earlier was a beautiful head and shoulders pattern had become a distorted monster, roaring higher on almost a daily basis. It was a miserable, faith-testing period for those of us who perceived it as a topping formation.
I don’t make a habit of shamelessly cutting and pasting content, but here is the original post. I simply had to share this, since it’s jaw-dropping. The boldface is my own.
I need help figuring out what I should do about this tax liability predicament that I find myself in. Let me take you on a journey of my bad personal decisions of the past 2 years. My first fuckup was discovering options in April of 2020, when stonks only went up. I put in hours to become acquainted with market terminology and studied options strats and stocks strats. Of course in the beginning it was a fun rollercoaster. Ultimately I ended up doubling my 5k account before i popped the question to the parents: “can i trade your money?” Little did I know that this jump would ruin my health and wealth…
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