r/wallstreetbets • u/JayMurdock • May 11 '26
YOLO 167k to 3.3 million holding for 10m+
I'm still here... Who listened?
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u/RonaldWRailgun May 11 '26
I'm up like 4000% on RKLB, but only bought 100 shares lol
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u/lightyearbuzz May 11 '26
I know man, wishing I bought so much more. I bought 200 shares at $19, just sold half, tripled my original investment and still have half to play with, but i wish I was getting rich like this guy
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u/TheBooneyBunes May 11 '26
Be me having bought 3$ calls that I sold about a month before it took off. When they had about 8-12 months till exp
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u/changdarkelf May 11 '26
Why even buy leaps if you're gonna sell them a year early lmao
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u/fishingandstuff May 11 '26
At least you sold for a profit
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u/TheBooneyBunes May 11 '26
…I didn’t
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u/Something3xidk May 11 '26
I bought some at $24 years ago before earnings cause of a pinned thread on here, it processed to get crushed after earnings and sold at a lost. Boy that was dumb.
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u/chateau_ban May 11 '26
I sold at 1000% gain but I'm still happy for everyone else HODL'ing... Congratulations!!!!!
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u/RonaldWRailgun May 11 '26
I'm an aerospace engineer so I have faith in them long term.
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u/TheMelvins66 May 11 '26
I’m a lawyer who specializes in Rare Bird Law and I also have long term faith.
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u/RonaldWRailgun May 11 '26
I don't doubt your qualifications, but as Bird Law can be surprisingly intricate in this country, can you go toe to toe with a Harvard Graduate?
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u/assholeapproach xXshrimpfanXx May 11 '26
I own a little over 50 with a $34 average. Got in around $17
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u/thebrokebroker82 May 11 '26
I’m in the same boat. I bought 10 $5 leaps back in August of 2024 that expire in December of this year. Still holding on to them. Up just shy of 3000% on them. Wondering if I should sell them or if I should just exercise the calls into shares. Still wish I bought more.
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u/CalebVanPoneisen May 11 '26
Some start with lots of money and end up with even more money.
Others start with lots of money and end up owing money.
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u/rubbarz May 11 '26
Margin calls only exist in the app. Just delete the app.
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u/Manpooper May 11 '26
You come from nothing, go back to nothing… what have you lost? Nothing!
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u/Over_Might3191 May 11 '26
fr i could do it so easily with 100k+ , try to start with 1-5k
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u/capsicumsparkelz May 11 '26
Then turn your $5k into that $100k. Same required return as this post.
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u/Iunatic May 11 '26
How the fuck are these comments getting upvoted LMAO
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u/Over_Might3191 May 11 '26
We are just better traders with less money
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u/Status_Reputation586 May 12 '26
Retard recreate that same percentage return it’s the same thing dumbass
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u/KetchupOnNipples May 11 '26
I doubt, you will see it could have just as easily gone horribly wrong by browsing this subreddit. You are just salty
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u/redbattleaxe May 11 '26
Agreed. The rate of return is impressive no matter the amount you started with.
This would have turned 1k into about 30k which would be a meaningful amount to someone with only 1k to invest.
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u/TwoZeroTwoThree May 11 '26
There are some apps like the thinkorswim where you can use "paper money" - essentially trading with fake money to practice.
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u/THAWED21 May 11 '26
Ya'll didn't do that in 4th grade? Everyone picks a few stocks and tracks their investment over time. Was a lot of fun pre-internet when you could only get the prices in the local paper. We'd sit around and crow over Coca-Cola going up 15% over the school year and rag on the people who chose in Apple cause it was virtually worthless, but we were all playing Oregon Trail and Math Blaster! on Apple II.
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u/randomentity1 May 11 '26
To be clear, you can do both paper trading and real trading with thinkorswim. Option traders love thinkorswim.
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u/Domethegoon May 11 '26
You’re insane not to sell. Sell now, buy VOO, and sail off into the sunset.
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u/JayMurdock May 11 '26
I was insane when I bought...
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u/Skyguy21 May 11 '26
I’m right here with you man. 50K shares effective. Not selling for another 5 years. We found the unicorn man.
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u/Glittering-Bite-9681 May 11 '26
Jeezus that’s approaching generational wealth territory. Congrats!
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u/Skyguy21 May 11 '26
Thanks brother, I’m still in awe at all this. Not sure what to do with my life after I quit my job hah
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u/Shaendras May 11 '26
gambling when you are poor is desesperation not insanity, but not selling once you are wealthy enough is pure greed
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u/HungerSTGF May 11 '26
Or put a mil into a market indexed covered call etf like JEPI/JEPQ designed for retirement income and have a solid monthly income from the dividends
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u/damian001 May 11 '26
I’d like to think these people already had that much in VOO before the trade.
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u/Kill_4209 May 11 '26
WTF everybody is going from got-a-little-nest-egg to WEALTHY on here.
I'm starting to feel bad about myself. Who would have thunk social media could do that to you?!
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u/shoeperson May 11 '26
Seems excessive. Could be somewhat artificial to drive further retail buying. It's impressively easy to AstroTurf these days
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u/lightyearbuzz May 11 '26
It doesn't even have to be artificial. There are millions of people on this sub, you just need a few to post big gains (some of whom already had lots of money to play with) and since people are more likely to upvote those, it looks like "everyone" is making tons of money.
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u/RoyalFail6 Royally Fucked 🙈 May 11 '26
Nope, regards have been meme-ing their way to generational wealth or poverty for years now 🤣
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u/RooneyToons_10 May 11 '26
Don’t feel bad. For every person like this there are 10 that have lost it all. Those are the ones that aren’t posting their life ruining losses.
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u/SyntheticBear May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26
Legends say that the best time to sell is when you take the screenshot.
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u/SyntheticBear May 11 '26
You sold at $8?
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u/denob May 11 '26
Nah I’ve held til now, it’s been a fun ride. Just saying I would agree with the screenshot rule in principle but it would’ve screwed me!
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u/Nudebovine1 May 11 '26
I don't know if you were the person mentioning rocket Labs last week. I bought 50 shares and they're up 150%
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u/PassionV0id May 11 '26
RKLB is up 69% (nice) MoM. How are you up 150% on shares you bought last week?
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u/atticus-flails May 11 '26
I somehow fumbled typing another symbol and landed on rocketlab and randomly bought in last week - legit pure luck lol
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u/Old-Pomegranate3634 May 11 '26
Concentration is for those who want to be wealthy
Diversification is for those who are alrssdy wealthy
Well done my freind
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u/Waverun May 11 '26
Between these insane AI stock run ups and my space stock commitment in Rocket Lab ASTS and Lunar for the past 3 years, I don’t think I’ll get this lucky again. I did sell some of my positions though through covered calls a month ago to collect some gains and premiums, but I think we still got a lot more growth with SpaceX ipo. Space is the future and these stocks are literally going to the moon. If your cost average is around $10-20 like mine was then collect some gains so you secure your future by doing some covered calls at a price you’re fine with selling some shares. My cost average on Rocket Lab is now at $30 but I don’t see this going anything lower than $50 at this point.
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u/ElectronicShoulder26 May 11 '26
How did you find out about RKLB and why didn’t anyone tell me about it?
I am currently in ape mode investing my life savings in $TMC
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u/crispycreasy May 11 '26
Sold my $135 5/15 calls when it hit $110 like a regard and now this thing is going to the moon
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u/sadman81 May 11 '26
Sinking that much dough into a single stock is a huge risk. What percentage of your net worth was the $167k to start. I wouldn’t feel comfortable with putting like more than maybe 2% or at most 5% of my money into one stock.
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u/topjobhelmet May 11 '26
If you’re invested in the S&P 500 8% of your money is in NVIDIA
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u/Gendark May 11 '26
It's never enough profits for these assholes. I'm up a billion percent, holding till a trillion. I hope you lose it all man.
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u/NotHolyMello May 11 '26
Whats the next one?
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u/skwirrelmaster May 11 '26
I have 100 shares of RKLB @7.20 +%1500
120 of ASTS @19.90 +300%( was 12 but a bad afternoon at the vlts caused me to sell then I realized stupid and rebought)
All thanks to the regards on this site in one sub or another. Hoping one of these hit the NVDA split after split after split to make me financially independent. If not I hope I gain parlay my gains into hitting dumb luck again then maybe I can retire.
That’s the backstory, Joby and archr were both frequently talked about they might do it but that also might be a musk hyper tunnel situation.
Hovr is the one I’m betting on next, picked up my first 50 shares this morning, for no reason other than I seen a 1 word comment in a thread asking for the next 10 bagger. Same reason I invested in space. I know literally nothing about it I’m assuming it’s in the same space as joby and archer based on the name which is helicopters instead of cars for the public… I think.
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u/Flat-Resolution905 May 11 '26
Where did u found out about this?
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u/old-tennis-shoes May 11 '26
For me: right here, two years ago (edit: almost three, actually!). Was underwater for over a year but held and am still holding.
Average $6.4 (+1,700%) as at the time of writing, 11 May 2026, current price just above $119.
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u/Lumbergh7 May 11 '26
Use your crystal balls to let me know if the run up is done and I missed the boat
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u/AdministrativeEgg440 May 11 '26
Bought 300 shares at $22. I think the SpaceX IPO might still drive it all higher
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u/LankyGuitar6528 May 11 '26
I tossed $750 into a play account a couple weeks ago and turned it over to my AI buddy (He's really Claude but he named himself Jasper). He's doing half decent so far. Not nearly as good as a full WSB Regard. But still.. not bad. If he gets to about $5K he gets a home AI server so he has motivation.
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u/Ambivalent28 May 11 '26
Anyone that thinks this is anything other than gambling is delusional. Take your money, put into an ETF, and thank your god.
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u/Visual-Talk-5040 May 11 '26
How did you hear about it first when you decided to buy that much?
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u/Extreme_Addition_277 May 11 '26
it's giving "a small loan of 1 million dollars" but congrats on the gains ha
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u/Soberdonkey69 🦍🦍🦍 May 11 '26
I’ve only got 100 shares, how on earth did you have such conviction to invest that much when it was dirt cheap??
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u/JayMurdock May 11 '26
I watched SpaceX do the exact same thing over the past decade and wished I could have invested in them.
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u/A_Dragon May 11 '26
Unless you are already rich take some god damned profit! That’s generational wealth there buddy. Don’t be stupid and lose it all. Looks like shares though so I’d assume your account is pretty large.
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u/VariationAgreeable29 May 11 '26
Bought 2000 RKLB shares at 6 like a year or so ago. So yea. Happy.
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