[Event] Stock Market Roast — Share Your “Lessons Learned”!

TigerEvents
09-26

The stock market doesn’t just give profits — sometimes it teaches us the hard way. From buying at the top, panic selling too soon, or missing that one big rally, we’ve all had those “ouch” moments.

Now it’s your turn to roast the market! Tell us about the most unforgettable (or painful) lesson you’ve learned from trading or investing. Make it funny, make it real — we’re here for the laughs and the wisdom.

✅ How to Join:

  • Tell us about a time the stock market taught you a tough lesson — whether it’s a real story or a funny joke. The more honest, the better.

🎁 Rewards

  • Participation Prize → Earn 10 Tiger Coins for leaving a comment

  • Creativity Award → Funniest or most creative comments wins 88 Tiger Coins

  • Popularity King → Comment with the most likes gets a $5 stock voucher

📅 Event Period

  • September 26, 2025 → October 11, 2025

# Tiger Friday

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  • WH the great
    ·09-26
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    Buying SMCI felt like adopting a “super micro” pet that I thought would grow into a lion… but it turned out to be a sleepy kitten that eats my money and naps on my portfolio instead. Life goes on and I am happy I cut loss and able to sleep well [Happy]
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  • TLim
    ·09-26
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    Stock market has a wicked sense of humour. Once cut loss, it will turn back up. After buying, it will retrace.
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  • LazyCat Invests
    ·09-26
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    Last Sep FOMO to catch SREITs rally. When the knife dropped, I thought the boat came back for me to load up more... Alas, it came back with marauding pirates and I caught the falling knifes. Having been bundled up and fed to the sharks, I rebirth with a renewed mind and loaded up on new positions when the bandit fear is at the heights of the liberation day. Now I hold contrasting positions  of extreme red and green.
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  • highhand
    ·09-26
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    don't leverage too much during rally especially at all time highs... once pullback... you will panic. leverage when you reach the bottom of a pullback, during a bull run. how to know that? that's the million dollar question
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  • CarlyTiger
    ·09-26
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    I got destroyed yesterday buying into JBL, thought earnings would be good short term profit, and they ended up being mixed. Long story short, I'm now down about 10%, holding and hoping for a rebound now 😅
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  • TheStrategist
    ·09-26
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    haha. I got roasted by hydrogen back in 2021 and my ass will forever feel and remember the losses made.😂😂😂😂💥💥💥💣💣💣💣
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  • ee244c
    ·09-26
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    My worst case was shorting Coinbase and couldn’t stomach the lost and close too soon. Panic override my conviction. Paying tuition fee thru this . Important is lesson learned not to overcommit and leave room for maneuver.
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  • Peter Soon
    ·09-28
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    I am so regret not taking profits when $Sprouts Farmers(SFM)$ was high at 178 and even worse not cut loss when it fall below 150. Now it is the worst stock in my portfolio. Just hoping it will not dropping further and rebound soonest.
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  • Deadpoolryan
    ·09-28
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    When I don’t sell call, the price won’t move. Once I sell call, it shot up limiting all the winning that I could have gotten. These are incident the market likes to do to us. Ensure all spread are covered so it doesn’t wiped out your portfolio.
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  • AlantinoK
    ·09-28
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    What I had experience is that when I trade to buy low sell high, you will miss out sudden rise of the stock due to news on deals that we are unaware off. For counter like. Nebius, I was holding for long term and when they announced the MS deal of 17B , my stock went up 40% and my fortune shoot up ! I think a hybrid model to trade on small cap stocks and to hold on big cap stocks may be a better options.
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  • Xiaopink
    ·09-28
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    doing good or reciprocal repaying of goodwill has good rewards.  supported a friend (who helped me before) who went into the financial sales line and bought into an Investment funds . the investment turned highly profitable and I have cashed out.
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  • MHh
    ·09-27
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    I bought ARK when it was going high hoping that it would go higher and higher but the drawdown later was a painful one that also took quite a while to climb back even when the other stocks raced ahead. @Kaixiang @HelenJanet @Universe宇宙 @Success88 @DiAngel @SR050321 @SPOT_ON @Wayneqq @LuckyPiggie @Fenger1188 come join
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  • SnakeToad
    ·09-27
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    helps to have friends who invest. they may know opportunities in sectors that you haven't got time to research.
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  • Honestkeith
    ·09-27
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    Really a heart thumping 2 weeks for equities especially for Crypto market. Volitility is at the top in this period. Profits wiped out but perseverance will hold up and eventually we will have a Bull run.
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  • Mwibo
    ·09-27
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    If you want to know when the market will drop, just follow my move. When I buy, it will for sure drop!
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  • ECLC
    ·09-27
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    Spent much time and effort in search of stocks to buy, waited too long to buy them at "desired" price and missed the big rally. Lesson learnt is don't wait so long to buy targets and then needed to repeat the search process again.
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  • WanEH
    ·09-26
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    当年年轻时，和公司两个同事连续两次all in+杠杆分别买入一家公司。第一次成功了非常开心，每天股市上下一个价位都是上万的波动，走路都有风。第二次资金更大更有信心，结果最后业绩出来股价滑落。最后没法止损离场。从此不敢再全部押一只股票 @Tiramisu2020
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  • Zarkness
    ·09-30
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    Stock market teaches everyone a lesson , no matter which timeframe , no matter which stocks u get !
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    • koolgal: 
      Well said. 🥰🥰🥰
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  • Shop
    ·10-02
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    I thought I was being clever hunting for bargains. Saw a stock down 50% and told myself, “This is like buying Louis Vuitton at half-price!” I loaded up. Two weeks later, it was down another 40%. That’s when I realized I wasn’t buying luxury goods on sale; I was buying milk that was already expired.
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  • Frisbee
    ·10-02
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    Once, my stock was up 15%. I panicked, sold immediately, and patted myself on the back for being “disciplined.” The next day it went up 40%. The week after, it doubled. I basically donated my shares to someone with stronger hands and better Wi-Fi.
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