Daily Discussion Thread for February 19, 2026

[+146] u/TheCrazedGoat: New baby has been awake since 3am. I'm ready to lose his college fund today. Let's get it. [+126] u/SoloOutdoor: If your job requires you to clean up human shit i think you should be able to retire after 10 years. [+88] u/Funny-Woodpecker-710: Spending one trillion dollars on capex to eliminate jobs in a consumer based economy is an amazing act of self destruction [+58] u/WSB-mods-are-: Remember kids, if anyone over 50 tells you anything about purchasing a car or house the conversation is already satire. These people went to college when a semester at Harvard cost less than 1000 hours of minimum wage. They are completely delusional lmao [+57] u/knoqd_: > US TRADE DEFICIT WIDENS, CAPPING ONE OF BIGGEST SINCE 1960 All those retarded tariffs for what lmao [+49] u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt: We will be bombing Iran exactly 30 seconds after the market closes tomorrow. THANK YOU FOR YOU ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! [+48] u/OSRSkarma: CARVANA CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT [+43] u/DahyunDabFan: Americans so fat they callin they jobs report a nothingBURGER [+43] u/SheBenOnMyJohnson: THEY ARRESTED THAT MF ON HIS BIRTHDAY LMAO [+42] u/Country_Gravy420: Super bearish in here. Calls [+39] u/Imgoin2brich: CVNA recovers 22% from lows yesterday at 270 lmfaoooo Truly the most manipulated market I've seen in a long time [+36] u/Low_Sheepherder7990: Some dude just got home from the club after celebrating his CVNA puts all night… RIP that man [+35] u/Chlo-Motion: "WMT DUMPING" \*checks WMT\* down -3% Lmao you drama queens, if you wanted to see a real earnings dump you should've seen Unity which went down 30% on earnings, (How do I know? Because I own that PoS) [+34] u/Academic_Lock_1699: Dear muritards, please jail your pedos, stop warmongering and start pumping the market again. Sincerely, a pissed off europoor [+31] u/AcademicStandard3701: Good morning as per usual bols are fuked RAWARR 🐻 🌈 https://preview.redd.it/e3w37hks1gkg1.jpeg?width=1206&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=89b03cb7b5d8ad6d1ced479784c4ebb09c2b3049 [+31] u/Internal_Field5970: Semi-hourly reminder that crypto serves no purpose, has no value, and drains resources [+28] u/Sensitive_Pilot3689: 🥭 fuming rn over Ex prince Andrew getting arrested. He knows he’s cooked. Might as well attack Iran for distraction now [+26] u/Weak_Emu3659: Here's my market thesis: # 🖕 [+25] u/Throw9984: The market is just daily rug pulls over and over again [+25] u/Senior-Jaguar-1018: This shit is boring, about to go actually gamble instead [+25] u/jda823: MMs really fucking over all the CVNA puts. No one was making money off that [+23] u/siouxu: CVNA is the greatest scam [+22] u/DemandOk5785: I'm at the point where I'm gambling with food money. Not looking good. [+22] u/CRM300NOW200: "You have MU calls? Don't pull out tonight." https://preview.redd.it/pe17vbhy5gkg1.png?width=2560&format=png&auto=webp&s=fb53e73ec6e249158a3282b783e15bb279ed2bf9 [+22] u/orangeyougladiator: Wall Street is basically signaling they’re okay with rape and pedos as long as they make money [+22] u/Stewarto_0705: It's kind of impressive how every move I make is instantly proved wrong [+21] u/longGERN: The work toilet is about to get real familiar with my ass [+21] u/Awkward_Ad_5102: Where did all the Greenland talk go? Everything is now focused on Iran. Just seems like another way to keep people distracted from the real problem.. [+20] u/420PotatoMan: your money belongs to theta today [+20] u/Warm_Implement3088: I am starting to believe that I will not be making it as a day trader in this lifetime [+20] u/milocreates: I’ll be honest. I don’t know what I’m doing. [+20] u/twostroke1: Bad news for my portfolio: I woke up alive again today. [+20] u/Low_Sheepherder7990: 15 minutes till we are all fucked.. [+19] u/PieEconomy8476: 0 Dte puts at open is the move [+19] u/knoqd_: CVNA up 22% off the lows lmao [+19] u/DogNamedFloppy: I didn’t know Tesla is trying to put human like skin on Optimus. Yep. Musk definitely wants sex robots. [+19] u/Present-Fill-3298: The concept of bers disgusts me [+19] u/WarenBoffet: Get up spy Get up ! Get up ser Spy! Get up Ser ! GEEETT UUUUPP WWAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIITT ! [+19] u/leomeng: They have a Board of Peace meeting today , all while militarizing gulf right now for an impending Iran attack. [+19] u/31andnotdone: I'm dying. Farewell. [+18] u/Paul_Robert_: It's kinda funny how I trust a poorly formatted DD post that's full of spelling mistakes, over a neatly formatted post, thanks to AI slop [+18] u/pigslick: hopefully i don’t have to work today & can just read this thread all day & loose money [+18] u/SlothsonSpeed: Literally untradable [+18] u/No_Routine_17: Opened at 683.85, closed at 683.85 gg theta fuck you [+17] u/WorkingCorrect1062: Can the market go fucking anywhere ? Like it's fucking stuck here for ages now . Worst market ever [+17] u/masonk69: This shits gonna fall off a cliff sometime today just a matter of when [+17] u/BarbellPadawan: CVNA price action, what a fucking joke [+17] u/nadoterisback: Spending one trillion dollars on capex to eliminate jobs in a consumer based economy is an amazing act of self destruction [+17] u/GuyFaulks77: Spy closing green LMAO [+17] u/mtnrnnr802: There’s such low volume that if I buy 10 shares of MSFT, there may be a 1% shrek dildo as a result [+16] u/FraserValleyGuy77: All this ber talk, I thought SPY must be down 8-10% [+16] u/Gam3B0iHack3r: I can’t believe I watched this shit for 7 hours. I deserve to lose money [+16] u/DefiantDelta: you can tell Nutlick thinks he’s gonna get away with it. with all of it [+16] u/Cav829: 25 forward P/E tech with growth: fuck no. 50 forward P/E Walmart with 3.5% growth: fuck yes. No wonder everyone's bearish on AI if this is what the algos are doing. [+16] u/pigeon_shit: Chris Hansen needs to bring his show back and tell these mfers to take a seat [+16] u/SpicyPanda27: Imagine watching a company drop 20% in after-market, thinking you're gonna be a millionaire at market open while holding puts. Then it proceeds to pump [+16] u/WSB-mods-are-: Fool me 1 week with 700 SPY calls, shame on you, fool me 21 weeks, shame on me 🤡 [+16] u/Ready-Tennis8577: Dude fuck trading all day. Shit so stressful [+16] u/No-Replacement-8297: If you bought 10k worth of beyond meat it 2021 you would have 41 dollars today LMAO 🧑‍🦼‍➡️ [+15] u/ItsyBitsySPYderman: 1dte calls at open. Delete the app. Go to airport tomorrow before close. Download app. Login. Buy plane ticket to Fiji or head off to Wendy's dumpster. [+15] u/Sick0h: 9:30 am: The family loads up on calls. 10:30 am: Supreme Court rules tariffs illegal.  3:59 pm: The family sell their ODTE calls for 600% and loads up on puts.  4:01 pm: Iran is turned to glass. [+15] u/awetfartruinedmylife: USD is pamping. Stocks don’t stand a chance today [+15] u/Ok-Analysis4121: UK standing on fucking business. America is SHOOKITH. That man is about to flip on everyone [+15] u/No-Replacement-8297: Morgan Stanley stock up 136% in 5 years, bitcoin up only 36% in 5 years. Boomer bank stocks out performing crypto bros by a mile 👑 [+15] u/OrdinaryMix4013: CVNA what in the actuial fuck! stupid shite was down 20% last night. [+15] u/ThouOne: +1% day today, bookmark this [+15] u/Cav829: I can't wait for Nvida to announce the greatest earnings in the history of mankind, Jensen Huang to personally promise all of you free leather jackets, but there's one slightly negative thinig on page 756 of their filing that causes a mass sell-off and the whole market to crash except TSLA that goes up another 5%. [+15] u/Rayzor_Rancher: Signs of a decayed USA and English culture 1. Prince arrested 2. Orange dominates all news 10years 3. AI is a fraud 4. Dollar can't buy a burger 5. Social media introduces you to people stupider than you already are [+15] u/sandygws: Upside: SPY is closer to 700 than 600. Downside: Not for long. [+14] u/DahyunDabFan: Holding puts turns you 🌈 cuz you learn to fear the V [+14] u/Thebaxxxx: Just made 20 dollars flipping a carvanna share AMA [+14] u/Seymour_asis501: I dress up like a banker just to sit in front of my laptop at home [+14] u/Elons-Musky-Balls: Day 6 of shitting out water since I got back from Central America pray for me [+14] u/After_Fee8244: U.S TRADE BALANCE (DEC) ACTUAL: -70.3B VS -56.80B PREVIOUS; EST 55.50B ... Lol lmao even, 🥭 that trade balance will turn positive any day now. [+14] u/Internal_Field5970: Some of you will not survive today [+14] u/Mathguy200: $690 EOD fuck you bears [+14] u/Interesting-Bite-468: You know what's actually worst than a Crash ? A slow grind lower over several weeks / months with numerous fake outs and no clear entry points... [+14] u/Moepenmoes: I don't even want profits anymore, I just want my money back, please I swear I won't do it again [+14] u/WarmCan3034: Holy fuck. It’s been such a long day and the market is still open [+14] u/anonymouschelseafan: Yeah I think I’m done with trading, gonna leave while I’m still up on the year, this is a joke [+14] u/brute-forced: Goodbye retirement 🥰 [+14] u/tesseramous: If markets are random explain how I can consistently lose [+14] u/LeBhikariLe: MSFT and 400 is a real struggle. Painful to watch [+13] u/Wide_Neighborhood_49: Lol the FL legislature decided to rename the Palm Beach airport after Taco, three days after he trademarked the name. The grift is endless. [+13] u/Fresh_Internal_6085: Kurt Cobain taking his revenge on CVNA for bastardizing his band’s name. [+13] u/rcantu314: Rklb really trolling Elon like that 🤌🤌🤌 [+13] u/enc-nyc: https://preview.redd.it/zb8qmv3zdhkg1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=d459a6dcb1f35794e79ebf68af3a9beb5058e172 [+13] u/Nomad6907: The 🥭cuck at work was bragging about the great economy was so I told him about the Walmart CEO saying people who make under 50k were still struggling. He said he doesn’t care about those people. I reminded him that those people are the majority of the country. He ran away. Imagine that. [+13] u/PunchingAgreenbush: https://preview.redd.it/22q9rizx4ikg1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dff8303547b4ae2bf7bee2bca1aef1ccee2ea6c1 ran into the ceo of ghey [+13] u/davidbigham: The last few weeks erased my last year gains 🤡🤡 [+13] u/OrdinaryMix4013: attacking iran wont make me forget about the FILES bro [+13] u/KittyLover-7: I’m too emotional for this, one green candle and I’m ready to talk shit and fight [+13] u/Asleep-Strike4978: Andrew arrested! I blame the Dow! Not at 50 thou anymore! [+13] u/mks_csw: cvna moving like a memecoin sit ur ass down lil bro, u sell used cars [+13] u/hudson701: done with 0DTE options fuck this shit, smoked [+13] u/Weak_Emu3659: **I JUST GOT FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!** [+13] u/DesolateEmptiness: Just got told to be ready to deploy in 72 hours. Iran is cooked. [+12] u/Glam34: Ask your accountant if rolling it forward is right for you [+12] u/necarpenter417: Imagine being a CVNA bear millionaire for an hour last night [+12] u/mehmilani: Saylor said they are fine even if 🌽 drops to $0. Solid company. [+12] u/vermilli21: Who’s even having fun anymore? [+12] u/Internal_Field5970: Can’t believe we will never hit 700 Melania Movie was the top [+12] u/KleenVision: If you comment here more than 100 times a day - you need to get a life. [+12] u/No-Improvement3164: Imagine holding 300p on cvna last night thinking you made money [+12] u/EmuIntrepid7374: CVNA V-ing back is crazy work [+12] u/Spear_n_Magic_Helmet: nervous chuckle intensifies [+12] u/mtnrnnr802: Remember: first 1351 moves are fake [+12] u/NewComplaint2065: you know it’s bad when bears and bulls aren’t even making fun of each other anymore [+12] u/Clear-West747: CNBC: “So can you clarify that you aren’t overstating your earnings and not being carried by your father’s related companies?” Carvana CEO: “THE DOW IS OVER 50,000” [+12] u/ConstantEfficiency83: WSB: Pick a direction fuck WSB: NO NOT THAT WAY DUMB ASS [+12] u/Internal_Field5970: Eh I’m done for the day, gonna to look at tits [+12] u/hubblebubble7: Keep buying the dip you fucking idiots [+12] u/memelackey: Imagine your only way to stay out of prison is to become the president of the Unites States. LMAO 🤌 [+12] u/Fitzaroo: With them arresting Andrew, gotta wonder how many other rich pedos will be putting some money aside. This could cause a sale on the market and the dow could drop below 50000. It all makes sense now. She tried to warn us of signs. [+12] u/leandrostonks: feels like a -4% day [+12] u/WarenBoffet: what a world we live in They shouldn't have shot that gorilla didn't they [+12] u/BarbellPadawan: CVNA was better when it was like 60 less than where it is now. [+12] u/Urzuck: It wants to dump so bad [+12] u/OptionsHuduga: Just put the cries in the bag bro [+12] u/SnakeDoctor80: I love this market; whatever gains I might have made the previous day is always wiped out before noon the following day [+12] u/Unlikely_Brilliant87: I just want to buy 0dte and then 100x it a minute later is that too much to ask? [+11] u/mallison945: US cant jail their pedos because they run our country and we’re all just indentured servants to a bunch of goobers. [+11] u/Samjabr: Green by open = prob Green as fk by close = def [+11] u/Weak_Emu3659: Average Rate of Return on wall street bets DD: ***-600%*** [+11] u/bathegoat123: If Carvana opens above 300 I’m eating a brick sandwich [+11] u/Kickboy21: I just sold everything and went 100% cash gang. Expect a green shrek dildo today [+11] u/mxcstar: Calling this market dog shit is an insult to actual dog shit [+11] u/WinstonBuddyBro: I spent $600 to make $1 today [+11] u/JugoShvili: Crashing to lows not seen since yesterday afternoon [+11] u/myironlung6: Bulls holding on for dear life 🤣🤣🤣 [+11] u/Dysbit: You should be allowed one do-over trade for good behavior [+11] u/Valkorion335786: What an absolutley trash market Sleep Joe would have had SPY at 800 after 3 splits [+11] u/Moepenmoes: Why do I keep coming back to this cursed place? [+11] u/Valkorion335786: SPY at 683.56: It's over SPY at 683.59: WE'RE SO BACK [+11] u/callsonreddit: Imma be bet banned after hours Nice knowing you guys [+11] u/BarbellPadawan: Hassett is an assclown [+11] u/diggin-the-doge: Let's go back to the days when this sub would just pick a single stock and we all retardedly jump on it together to watch it go weeeeeee [+11] u/Spiderman55: If you want to see corruption in real time just look at CVNA [+11] u/Low_Sheepherder7990: SPY IS GONNA RIP TODAY… only no one knows which direction, and it will do the opposite at noon. [+11] u/BarbellPadawan: GLD probably 700 before SPY [+11] u/Ok_Cry7572: Anyone else sitting in bed rn like me [+11] u/arigold940: cvna lmao what a fraud holy shit unbelievable [+11] u/jerm2z: SPY to 700 when the war starts right? [+11] u/Melodic-Mud5197: Thank gosh I avoided trading today. My biggest win 💯💯 [+11] u/cow_grass: Bulls got baited in and bears got shaken out lmao [+11] u/Jeffoxy: “board of peace”, brought to you by raytheon [+11] u/Jeffoxy: prince andrew wouldn’t have been arrested if the London Stock Exchange was 50,000 [+11] u/throwawaydonaldinho: Who the fuck comes in to this market thinking; “Damn, Iran about to turn in to glass. Rate hikes are being discussed. Absolutely cooked employment data and a day before GDP. Bag 7 dead with no AI returns and more spend. Maybe this is the time to buy SPY at 683” [+11] u/Key-Customer-9853: I made $90 risking $500, economics [+11] u/9tacos: Calls! No, Puts! No, back to Calls! No, plow into Puts! Sell to book loss. Synopsis of I lost 5k today … [+11] u/mtnrnnr802: Pre-war type of volume bro [+11] u/Low_Sheepherder7990: So let me get this straight… we collapse the market 25-30%… then we hold it there for 4 months… then every company that beats earnings, we fuck them for another 20%…. How do I make money on theta? [+11] u/Candid_Analyst_9040: I have never worked this hard to lose fifty dollars. [+11] u/Haikoe: Turns out the ayatollah has the real Epstein files in his basement [+11] u/No-Replacement-8297: The IV on Carvana puts was 266% yesterday 🧑‍🦼‍➡️ [+11] u/myironlung6: Don’t worry no matter how much money you have you’re still ingesting 60k pieces of microplastic each day 😘 [+11] u/killainvest: Prince Andrew arrested on his birthday……king is stone cold. [+11] u/arbitraryBlue: I say we pool our money together and start our own hedge fund. We rug pull MMs. I got five on it, who else? [+11] u/Able-Breadfruit-5981: Seems like there are different rules for the rich and powerful. [+11] u/Initial_Ad_9250: Wow the fraud V on CVNA just to kill the puts [+11] u/Jemmani22: Cvna gonna make every single option holder broke [+11] u/Stewarto_0705: Ok time to finally admit I have no idea what I'm doing [+11] u/mtnrnnr802: The market is waiting for the bombs to drop [+11] u/Throwmeaway50472: Shit looks like a polygraph test [+11] u/9LegParlay: Full ported calls at open I’m dead [+11] u/matticusbradicus: This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but with an UwU [+11] u/EvolvingDior: Headline: >Trump secured over $5 trillion in investment pledges from allies, including EU, Japan, and South Korea, despite fuzzy math. Yeah, he also secured a FIFA Peace Prize. [+11] u/Aromatic-Ad-6244: Can mag7 pls recover? I'll settle with 5% below ATHs but the hell is all of this 25% - 35% drop from ATHs. Daaamnit! [+11] u/FrostingOk2692: Remember that you can pay for your tariffs in four easy interest-free payments with Klarna. [+11] u/Neverluckyinosrs: This drop will be glorious. Vix ticking up [+10] u/Paul_Robert_: Lmao former Prince Andrew getting arrested on his bday 😂 [+10] u/DonDiabloTheGreat: Any marines in here can give us a heads up before they get deployed to lose another war in the Middle East? Wanna get some VIX calls. [+10] u/Paul_Robert_: Imagine buying Carvana puts, seeing that massive 20% drop AH, and now watching as it slowly pumps back up 💀 [+10] u/Trashpanda7193: Please give me a face ripping v [+10] u/YourCautionaryTale: There should be some way to appeal your options pricing.  "I get that SPY is $1.78 over my strike, but as you can see in display 3a, this was a low-volume pump, so it really shouldn't count." [+10] u/Sick0h: If you actually expect a decision on tariffs tomorrow you are beyond retarded [+10] u/dub_soda: Sell everything for a loss so you can FOMO back in at a higher price [+10] u/bearhunter429: #People say "we have to invest into AI, flying cars, self driving taxis, biotech, quantum....etc" but at the end of the day tractor stock wins the day LMAO🤌🗽🦅 [+10] u/breezygolfs: The v will save us all [+10] u/dub_soda: Only half a million volume on Nasdaq 💀💀💀💀 [+10] u/Recent-Animator6941: SPY gonna zigzag 680-700 range for the next 70 years. America is doomed [+10] u/Colloquial: The reason these other countries can arrest leaders is because their DOWs aren't at 50k [+10] u/silverfutes: Imagine if we’d kept electricity a secret. [+10] u/WarenBoffet: CVNA down brings joy to this cold day [+10] u/b_fellow: Damn CVNA 345p might not even be green at open. [+10] u/IlinistRainbow6: my god this entire month could’ve been an email [+10] u/FullCopy: WMT is proving that the Poors don’t downgrade, they just stop buying shit. [+10] u/SwiftSG1: 🌮 needs another fifa peace prize [+10] u/im-doing-it-again: … is this thing on?! [+10] u/zestykite: Puts were a terrible idea [+10] u/jiggolo420: That feeling when you wanted to make a quick swing trade, and now you've been holding for 7 months #UNH [+10] u/31andnotdone: see how I waited for that entry? very patient, very demure. [+10] u/ThatFreakImHim: I remember when this used to be fun [+10] u/SarcasticTrumpet: Random pumps to shake out puts on no volume and the trend is clear lol, name a more blatantly useless/corrupt org than the SEC [+10] u/twostroke1: Market so boring I almost did actual work at my job. [+10] u/kaapooj: bears seen lining up at the bull welfare center to donate children books and crayons [+10] u/weewoowewoooo: Market has been the biggest waste of fucking time for the past 3 months lmfao [+10] u/Hookemvic: So like...this market is ass, yes...? [+10] u/orsomeshitidk: Holy fucking theta man, Christ [+10] u/aftherith: Did people actually buy a company called Micro Soft thinking it would be an exciting growth opportunity?? I did, it was me.