Trading is really all about luck. A Reddit user entered the market on June 2 with $20K in principal and $18K in leverage, totaling $380K. He chased the highs by buying MU, AMD, and Broadcom, and casually picked up a $45 MU call option expiring on June 26. As soon as he bought in, the market tanked. Within a week, he lost $110K, and his margin was on the verge of being wiped out. He was forced to sell AMD and MU but made a classic mistake: he held onto Broadcom. Then the market started fluctuating $50-$100 daily. He thought he could "sell high, buy low" to recover his losses, but every time he sold, all the other stocks except Broadcom took off. That call option contract? He ended up selling it for just $23 because he thought MU wouldn’t bounce back. If he had held on for just one more week, he could’ve made around $300K.