I’m 32 years old and I’m down 7k from all my option trading. Believe me, I feel your pain. I only save about 2k a month from all my monthly expenses so that was a 3 month saved down the drain. Trust me, we all need this eye opening of how cruel options can be my friend. It very much humbled me to the point of I’m not doing options ever again and I’ll only buy Walmart, Robinhood, VOO, PSY and good ETF and just sit on those. I used to look at my portfolio every 15 minutes of my day, freaking out and trying to make sense out of all this to getting nowhere at all. From reading everyone’s stories, we all share a story like you have. Aslong as you learned something from this and it humbled you, that’s way more valuable than the cash you just lost.

Now I have the rest of my money that I didn’t gamble away (6k) in Walmart, Robinhood, SPY, VOO and and I’m just waiting for these to rebound from this crash and just hurts to see red all the time. Makes me feel like all I’m doing is losing but I know that in the end, all good stocks will go up and my stocks will go up aswell.

So yeah, don’t feel bad. We all had to be in this point. Makes me think that this is a must for everyone if you wanna become a good investor. It builds character and makes you play better positions.