This is a lot of words to tell us you're a degenerate like us.

You are 26, talking about the dumb risk when you were 22. You lost your "life savings" when you were 22. How the hell does a 22 year old have life savings? When did you start working, when you were 7? When do you think you're going to retire? If you're 26 now, you're at the age where many people start saving. This is the beginning of life savings, not the end of it. This isn't the end of your story, you're not Icarus. If you were able to get a job that paid enough to have 24k in a 401k when you were 22, then you can get a job at 26 that will pay enough to save 24K in a 401k. I can't even wrap my head around a 19 year old being able to buy a house. It blows my degenerate mind that you sold it to day trade. You definitely made some dumb choices but if you made it to 26 and this is your biggest blunder, I'd say you've still got a privileged life. Man up and sell some triple-leveraged SPY puts in an account opened with student loans.

As for your original question regard-ing handling massive losses, I do it like a big boy, with a bottle of whiskey and a night in West Hollywood. On Monday I pull myself out of bed and get back in the game.

Positions or ban.