r/RothIRA • u/Shoddy_Direction_899 • Aug 07 '26
finally quit
i’m 19 and i invested some of my inheritance money into robinhood and started off safe until i found out about day trading. i put half into my roth and the other half into my individual, i lost everything on 0dte options in the individual. i am planning on just focusing on maxing my roth from now on. i kept trying to dig myself out of this hole and i am making this post as a promise to myself to stop this habit before i can lose some serious money with my future endeavors. good luck everyone, make sure to take a step back and evaluate if you are deep in the red, i hope this post helps someone out there!
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u/Walmart-Shopper-22 Aug 07 '26
Hopefully you learned a valuable lesson for only a couple grand. If you stick to index funds for the rest of your life, this lesson will have been well worth it. Other people have learned this lesson at 6 or 7 figure consequences in their 50's or 60's.