YTD 2026 Networth tracking thread

[highsulphur]

All paper money what
Can see cannot touch.

It's all marked to market. Losses are losses. No such thing as paper loss

 

[stanlawj]

Let's give a moment of silence to those who fell and disappeared off the market in the past 24 hours.
Got a $19M account wiped out.



I'm still trying to get >50% ytd without much success. 2nd time still failed.

 

[DevilPlate]

It's all marked to market. Losses are losses. No such thing as paper loss

Tio margin call then Real losses

 

[laokorkor]

Let's give a moment of silence to those who fell and disappeared off the market in the past 24 hours.
Got a $19M account wiped out.



I'm still trying to get >50% ytd without much success. 2nd time still failed.

It's worth noting the mathematical adage that if you lose 1%, you only need to gain ~1% to break even. However, if you lose 50%, you'll need to gain 100% to break even.

The story, my friend, is that in the major down market, you need to have spare gun powder to see tomorrow sun rise, 这样才能东山再起。Never be in a position where your assets are involuntarily liquated, expired, margin called, called for closure, etc.

A highly diversified, balance budget not just give you a peace of mind, you ensure your survival over the long term.

Research shows that retail investors inevitably lose money putting their money in volatile assets - the more volatile the assets, the more likely the retail investor might lose even when the long term trend of the underlying assets is positive. These assets include real estate with jumbo mortgage, options, futures, bitcoin, etc. For some reasons or another, investments have turnover and volatile investments are prone to buy-high-sell-low.

 

[highsulphur]

It's worth noting the mathematical adage that if you lose 1%, you only need to gain ~1% to break even. However, if you lose 50%, you'll need to gain 100% to break even.

The story, my friend, is that in the major down market, you need to have spare gun powder to see tomorrow sun rise, 这样才能东山再起。Never be in a position where your assets are involuntarily liquated, expired, margin called, called for closure, etc.

A highly diversified, balance budget not just give you a peace of mind, you ensure your survival over the long term.

Research shows that retail investors inevitably lose money putting their money in volatile assets - the more volatile the assets, the more likely the retail investor might lose even when the long term trend of the underlying assets is positive. These assets include real estate with jumbo mortgage, options, futures, bitcoin, etc. For some reasons or another, investments have turnover and volatile investments are prone to buy-high-sell-low.

A non leveraged broad based equity etf portfolio let me sleep well

 

[SpeedingBullet]

famous last words lol

 

[elloz123]

What a fun day.

 

[Euqorab]

famous last words lol

What are those words?

 

[SpeedingBullet]

What are those words?

my own

everyone's portfolio hitting ATHs with the market hehe

 

[highsulphur]

everyone's portfolio hitting ATHs with the market hehe

well isn't it a truth that market will have to come off after some ATH?

 

[Euqorab]

my own

Ahhh
That’s wise words

 

[stanlawj]

Just a reminder: Someone made $200million in this crash.
There are winners out there.

A single colossal BTC whale shorted at the peak, then, just minutes before the market-shattering crash, piled on millions more in shorts. At the very bottom of the drop, he closed 90% of his Bitcoin short and completely exited his Ethereum short, pocketing roughly $190–$200 million in a single day. That’s the only instance we can trace, but speculation is rampant that the scale was far larger and extended across other exchanges. Don’t be naive, this wasn’t luck. Someone was either manipulating the market or front-running it. Either way, the collapse was engineered, and investors have every reason to be alarmed.

Source:

 

[DevilPlate]

Just a reminder: Someone made $200million in this crash.
There are winners out there.

A single colossal BTC whale shorted at the peak, then, just minutes before the market-shattering crash, piled on millions more in shorts. At the very bottom of the drop, he closed 90% of his Bitcoin short and completely exited his Ethereum short, pocketing roughly $190–$200 million in a single day. That’s the only instance we can trace, but speculation is rampant that the scale was far larger and extended across other exchanges. Don’t be naive, this wasn’t luck. Someone was either manipulating the market or front-running it. Either way, the collapse was engineered, and investors have every reason to be alarmed.

Source:

April crash also sama sama

All these man made black swan event confirm got insider trading.

 

[Jirachi]

Dropped about 8% today. But not worried for the long term. Just that my YTD gets hammered for no reason. Still 3x of S&P 500 which is my score card.

 

[minamikaze]

Quite shag heading into the weekend.. dunno if next week will get better

 

[highsulphur]

Quite shag heading into the weekend.. dunno if next week will get better

Don't think too much. Just enjoy the weekend. Leave the market do what it does when it opens

 

[Jirachi]

Quite shag heading into the weekend.. dunno if next week will get better

Oh ya, you are on long dated call options. The option value will erode hard here.

 

[d5dude]

Of course public policy matters! In fact public policy matters by quite a bit. You can just compare Bill Clinton (highest at 15% annualized) vs George W. Bush (lowest at -5.6%) presidency.

Bill Clinton is a dove compared to George W. Bush as a hawk (2 major Iraq and Afghanistan wars). ChatGPT suggests the 2 wars booked US an all-in cost of $8T USD!

Bill Clinton's budget and federal debt management skills are also much better than GWB's. US has a budget surplus for 4 years under Bill Clinton's term.

Closer home, SG vs MY economic gulf can to a large part be attributed to difference between LKY and Mahathir policy making.

In the end the avg returns over the presidency is still quite similar, most of the returns were driven by innovation, not public policy.

SG is a small economy that’s mostly centrally planned, totally cannot compare…

 

[d5dude]

Let's give a moment of silence to those who fell and disappeared off the market in the past 24 hours.
Got a $19M account wiped out.



I'm still trying to get >50% ytd without much success. 2nd time still failed.

live and die by the sword, he probably got to 19m thru taking huge risks, leverage is a double edged sword.

 

[stanlawj]

Harris Kupperman +12.16% YTD.

I believe he is mostly long oil and gas, shipping sector.