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Yes the good old days. My largest one day loss was $104K and my largest one day gain was $102K. My largest loss during the dot com bust was over one million. Must say I recovered nicely.
My largest 1 day loss was about $25,000, not a big deal when you know that I avoided a one day loss of about $300,000 by selling the week before. 15 years later that stock has never come back and it would have been a permanent loss.
The largest one day loss I have experienced was around $3,000. I lost it on Blackberry on the day they did an earnings call a couple years ago. The stock plummeted fast. I knew the quarter was going to be lackluster but not that bad. I kept my position with Blackberry for a few more weeks and then sold with a loss. I didn't believe in the company anymore and their problems were worse than I expected. I had traded RIMM/Blackberry before holding long and losing the $3000. With the trading activity and the one day loss I still earned right around $400 in total on RIMM/Blackberry. When I sold my long Blackberry position I invested the money in other companies and made my money back- and then some- in about 3 to 4 months. Two years later Blackberry is still stuck in mud and can't get over the $10 mark.
as I accumulate more money, my biggest losses and gains keep happening. I generally move with the market so my biggers loss/gain wouldn't be much more than whatever the market did on that day.
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