For everyone of these lottery winners, there's thousands of other idiots in the red. /r/WSB is definitely an entertaining read though.<p>If you want a funnier read at the expense of a company, read about /u/1R0NYMAN basically conning Robinhood by withdrawing $10k before they ate a $53k loss. Subsequently they stopped allowing box spreads. I believe there was also talk that he could sue Robinhood for being so irresponsible with him, but I'm assuming he cut his winnings and ran.<p><a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trader-says-he-has-no-money-at-risk-then-promptly-loses-almost-2000-2019-01-22" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trader-says-he-has-no-mone...</a>
If you're after a more interesting trade on reddit thread then ir0nymans box spreads are legendary [1]. Invests $5k and proceeds to turn that into -$57k and ends up banning box spreads on Robin Hood.<p>1. <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trader-says-he-has-no-money-at-risk-then-promptly-loses-almost-2000-2019-01-22" rel="nofollow">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trader-says-he-has-no-mone...</a>
Was it fool proof?<p>Previously on reddit - a guy on reddit loses $60'000 [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/agovgl/only_invest_what_you_can_afford_to_lose_they_said/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/agovgl/only...</a> SFW
There are so many fun /r/wsb stories.<p>Just in the past few months there's been 1ronyman, analfarmer and my favorite - well I guess I shouldn't name him in case it violates rules - but some guy that yolo'd his student loans by accidentally buying puts and then tried to convince people he was a good trader.<p>I also just remembered that time someone tried to share his success with SquareSpace and it turned out he'd bought Square stocks instead by accident and didn't even realize it.