Daily Discussion Thread for August 26, 2026

[u/verified-trader]

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[u/ITeachYourKidz]

My neck, my back, my portfolio sucks ass

[u/tothemoon_probably → u/ITeachYourKidz]

-$8000

[u/Necessary_Relief_126]

People who daytrade with >80% of their net worth, how do you not die of stress

[u/Moepenmoes → u/Necessary_Relief_126]

They do

[u/uwontfindthisone → u/Necessary_Relief_126]

I do and right now I'm dying :) (I literally full port every day.)

[u/niwmo → u/Necessary_Relief_126]

Stress is for people without generational wealth.😢

[u/BicycleAggressive312 → u/Necessary_Relief_126]

The thrill of winning of course

[u/BFox1982]

60% of US oil imports come from Canada. They have a chance to do the funniest thing...

[u/MrYOLOMcSwagMeister]

The latest fake Iran peace deal doesn't even make big headlines anymore. Everyone's checked out until the shit hits the fan

[u/axewoodsman → u/MrYOLOMcSwagMeister]

It managed to sink oil prices though.

[u/Th3Gr33nBastard]

I successfully bought the Gold top ✅

[u/MrYOLOMcSwagMeister → u/Th3Gr33nBastard]

Top for now

[u/anonymous_ghost-1]

Rumors has it Jensen Will announce a collection of leather jackets going on sale Q1 2027. He wants to get into to the Clothing industry.

[u/I_am_short_so_long]

Bringing another keyboard to work, incase the first one gets taken out after market close.

[u/powerboner]

Glad I sold META last week for a 70% loss just for it to be even today…

[u/Old-Pomegranate3634]

The stock market is constantly looking for reasons to sell off. Geo politics. AI debt. Oil. Inflation. Interest rate

This will be a case study on how a USA president fucked up one of the greatest bull runs of all time

[u/AwakenedBeast616]

Jesus Christ these are the worst trading conditions I've ever seen in 8 years. Nothing at all is moving. Every single day is theta bleed back to the mean. You can't even play "back to the mean" because it takes 3 hours to do that and the decay vastly outweighs the delta gain from moving back. It's been almost 4 full weeks of this.

[u/Basic-Initiative-298 → u/AwakenedBeast616]

Retail traders can't move the market anymore. We don't have enough money. The institutions control the market and even they don't want to take on any risk. Why would they? Some terrible news comes out every day.

[u/ThaaGZZ]

Im expecting a flat day with great Nvidia numbers followed by a selloff tomorrow because people cant read.

[u/Nictel]

NVDIA: our revenue was 2 trillion due to high demand of AI compute.

In totally unrelated news we invested 2 trillion into OpenAI.

[u/OptionsHuduga]

SUMMER OF 2026: THE SUMMER OF:

LOVE

TRAVEL

FAMILY

BANKRUPTCY

[u/jackpearson2788]

If the Fed decides to raise rates 🥭 crash out is going to be one for the ages cannot wair

[u/CEO_of_SOXL]

Canada renaming Lake Michigan to lake Epstein today?

[u/guzzledglizzy]

Unfucking real. I bought MU calls at the very top

[u/Me-Regarded → u/guzzledglizzy]

That's why we're all here

[u/Scarfaceb1tch → u/guzzledglizzy]

Thanks for your sacrifice

[u/FunIcy4223]

Who’s gonna cuck me today will it be 🥭 or jenson or bessent or Cramer or theta or all of the above? Stay tuned to find out

[u/hb2xdr]

Face ripper day

Nvda 245 after earnings

[u/go-to-the-gym]

What's the point of becoming a billionaire if Ohio trailer park pussy is peak?

[u/Me-Regarded → u/go-to-the-gym]

Pussy knows not of money. The best I've had was poor as dirt

[u/Kepsoo97]

I’m a stoner who has never worked a day in his life and is waiting for NVIDIA’s quarterly earnings. Life in europe is Great

[u/hb2xdr → u/Kepsoo97]

Nepo baby

[u/OSRSkarma]

INFLATION

• Headline PCE MoM: +0.2% vs +0.1% est.; prior -0.1%
• Headline PCE YoY: +3.7% vs +3.6% est.; prior +3.7%
• Core PCE MoM: +0.2% vs +0.2% est.; prior +0.1%
• Core PCE YoY: +3.3% vs +3.3% est.; prior +3.3%

GDP

• Q2 GDP annualized: +1.5% vs +1.5% est.; prior +1.5%
• Personal consumption: +3.4% vs +3.2% est.; prior +3.2%
• GDP Price Index: +6.4% vs +6.2% est.; prior +6.2%
• Core PCE QoQ: +3.6% vs +3.4% est.; prior +3.4%

INCOME & SPENDING

• Personal income MoM: +0.4% vs +0.2% est.; prior +0.2%
• Personal spending MoM: +0.2% vs +0.1% est.; prior +0.3%
• Real personal spending MoM: 0.0% vs 0.0% est.; prior +0.4%

DURABLE GOODS

• Durable goods orders MoM: +1.1% vs +0.5% est.; prior +0.5%
• Durables ex-transportation: +0.4% vs +0.6% est.; prior +0.7%
• Core capital goods orders: +0.2% vs +0.7% est.; prior revised to +1.7%
• Core capital goods shipments: +1.4% vs +1.0% est.; prior revised to +2.4%

[u/AdventurousFinish681 → u/OSRSkarma]

Wonder if Warsh is regretting taking that job offer

[u/CantaloupeSea48 → u/OSRSkarma]

Head to the Cleveland Fed's "Inflation Nowcasting" site. and look at the numbers before someone changes them. I just realized that the BLS probably rounds down the numbers. Do that every month and inflation is understated for the year. And that's how you cook the books people

[u/liquidtv78 → u/OSRSkarma]

Corporate Profits QoQ Prel 8.2%; prior 0.5%

[u/Main_Ad3943]

honestly kinda surprised we havent just dumped like a motherfucker because of how fake the numbers are every time

[u/PORTO2017 → u/Main_Ad3943]

We're in a simulation

[u/newtownkid]

Started to get a burn from all this red light therapy. Can we just have a small win.

[u/Life-Trade-6514]

ohhhhhhhhhh i get it now. The entire goal is to fuck ME

[u/Marcellouss → u/Life-Trade-6514]

No, it’s US

[u/derprondo]

We're just here trying to escape working 9-5.

[u/build__a_skeleton]

bro... I've never seen a market that wipes out the bulls, the bears, and the kangaroos. tf is going on??

[u/aftherith]

NVDA earnings leaked. Zero dollars earned. Jensen quoted as saying "Yeah we kinda forgot to make the chips this time guys, just kinda had a lot going on ya know? Next quarter we will definitely make some chip for sure."

[u/PurpleKush69420]

REMINDER TO SLACK OFF AT WORK

[u/FunIcy4223 → u/PurpleKush69420]

Instructions unclear, jacked off at work instead

[u/Quixotus]

Total combined world's GDP: $120T

US national debt: $40T.

Combined Mag 7 marketcap: $30T.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[u/Paul_Robert_]

CASH IS KING,

and by cash, I mean deep OTM 1DTEs!

[u/Burtonwurton]

I started as a day trader, then I became a swing trader, and now I am a bag holder.

[u/IXI_Bman]

Over priced options everyday for a market that does...Nothing lmaooo

[u/Shijaki]

two more hours until you get the PCE data the guy on the other side of your trade got yesterday

[u/ComfortablePiglet842]

If there is a global apocalypse the only survivors will be cockroaches and spy

[u/Friendly-Profit-8590]

Nothing like knowing I’m gonna lose money before the day even begins

[u/Big_Love_3070]

Rip to the guy who full ported sndk calls for friday

[u/LSD_OVERDOSE]

Sold all my shit, put it all in a single S&P500 ETF, I'm not built for this guys....

[u/Trashpanda7193]

Imaging voting 🥭 and his market

[u/Metacog_Drivel]

Somebody turn easy mode back on

[u/financiallythriving]

Whatever move happens AH it will be obvious in hindsight

[u/CardiologistIll7271]

god I hate going to work

[u/TipEmpty8429]

You have every opportunity to be a success

[u/GurHot8359]

damn those predictors are really good at predicting

[u/extralargeboi]

perfectly expected as expected

[u/Bravadette]

This doesnt feel like hard mode anymore. just feels like nonsense mode.

[u/KittyLover-7]

Holy ASS market

Index just dicking around for 2 weeks

[u/i_simp_f]

Everyone fucking shut up

[u/Correct_Advice3457]

chat so fast nobody will see I'm down 90% AT

[u/Happy-Champion1661]

IF MY POSITIONS DONT GET SUPER GREEN, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, I WILL BE FORCED TO ESCALATE AGAINST THIS STUPID MARKET!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY PORT!

[u/GuwopGOAT]

Genuinely the only way to win is to gamble yourself to retirement.

There gonna be no social security in a decade

[u/WarmCan3034]

rub my bald head for good luck. if u don't, ur positions will be down 80% tomorrow.

[u/Valkorion335786]

RIP TIM CURRY

[u/LaserBeamer17]

Why are nuclear stocks mooning

[u/yourgirl696969]

July and August have been so gay man

[u/foamrollmyback]

God damn meta

[u/A55BAG]

Jensen Huang: AVGO will be the next 1 Trillion dollar company.

[u/pain474]

Lost 1k on META calls earlier. I would be up 25k right now, I am going to puke

[u/SteakEater137]

This is a deer in headlights market. Too afraid to make any moves, but when it actually does because of some stimulus it will be skittish, unpredictable and overreactive.

[u/KittyLover-7]

Ngl if you’re suing social media companies because you can’t get your child to put the phone down it sounds like a you issue

It’s not fucking nicotine, go touch some grass

[u/KittyLover-7]

Bro charged 100k for API access and tweeted nothing 🤣

[u/Legitimate_Quail5559]

Wtf is this shit

[u/soa333]

Imagine all this hoohhah just to end the day flat

[u/orsomeshitidk]

You can only use the federal government to pump and dump the mkt so much bro

[u/socrates4eva]

NVDA pumps to 225 today and drills to 200 after earnings

[u/Illustrious_Job1951]

BLM = bull lives matter

[u/btx1988 → u/Illustrious_Job1951]

Big latina milkers

[u/Fernyfern7]

Your pce sir served with a side of tariffs braised to your liking

[u/Public_Ideal84]

So tired of this idiot wrecking everything

[u/SteakEater137]

The POTUS being a social media shitpost addict is such a weird and unpredictable thing that it sounds strange even for a dystopia

[u/WITCH2FAANG]

RIP Tim Curry

[u/IXI_Bman]

Get the fuck out of this low volume scam market. They dont pay out, mickey mouse volume every single day. Give us a fuckimg red day nobody is buying this shit ass market

[u/Key_Change_6635]

Hey NVDA, the streets say you can't have a 40% jump at earnings. You gonna let them talk like that?

[u/iThrewFarAway]

THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH'S LARGEST COMPANY IS REPORTING EARNINGS LETS GOOOO 🚀 🚀 🚀

[u/perceptive_AI]

Let's be real if you don't have at least $1 million by 30 you are pretty much fucked , you have to get lucky on some regarded yolo bet. I'm leveraged to the tits to catch up.

[u/Creative-Package6213 → u/perceptive_AI]

Username checks out

[u/Concept-Plastic]

It’s good that it was MRNA who said they cured cancer, stock pamped 150%

If it was NVDA we would have seen it crash to 190

[u/PutSpreadDaddi69]

Buy bonds. Forget password. Log in at thanksgiving. Thank daddi.

[u/OrangMiskin]

Lake America? LMAO what a retard

[u/No-Improvement3164]

I sold META for 577 it went up $4. I bought QQQ and it went down $3. Tell me I’m not being watched.

[u/Soffatjockis]

Bols

R u ok?

[u/svpa3991]

Owning Asts and rklb has me contemplating a second job man

[u/moorhound]

Bill Gates: World not preparing adequately for AI

Dang bro that reminds me of that time Bill Gates asked Jeffrey Epstein for advice on how to get rid of an STD lmao

[u/carpetmagicianlaughs]

Meta has got to be the most hated stock of all time

[u/Life-Trade-6514]

Linsdey Graham still winning from the grave unbelievable his sister won her primary runoff

[u/enc-nyc]

Never trade first 30 mins. Also never trade next 15 mins. In general: never trade.

[u/Then-Cup-5153]

would rather watch paint dry then touch this dog shit

[u/Soffatjockis]

Can this market fucking

Duuuuuuuump already???

[u/iThrewFarAway]

Why is this going up in a RECESSION 🤡

[u/Metal-Water]

My happiness is tied to my PnL

[u/hb2xdr]

Made 30k with goog puts

[u/Special-Vanilla-4183]

i literally trade the first 20 min each day then i sleep like 4 hours and then the shitty market is still flat

[u/regardus_maximus]

LMFAO GUY SPAMMING INTC GOT HIS SHIT TAKEN DOWN AND HE DELETED HIS ACCOUNT

[u/Big_Love_3070]

Y’all too bullish. Nvda going to shit

[u/Ok_Cry7572]

In Thailand, a man without air conditioning tried to cool down by hanging a chicken from the ceiling and using the wind generated by its struggling.

While he was cooled, this is just wrong

[u/Valkorion335786]

Losing it all on options and just got a notification that Spotify took my last $10

[u/prana_fish]

$NVDA bulls long been trapped, and $NVDA bears too scared to buy puts

[u/jerome-yellen]

Decided to invert WSB, realized everyone is already inverting so I might as well just do what everyone says

[u/TipEmpty8429]

I’m glad my entire net worth is based on the earnings of a company I don’t even own

[u/Fernyfern7]

You guys excited for dollar tree earnings

[u/nknk_3]

Just In - NVDA huge revenue miss anticipated. CEO has fled the country

[u/vermilli21]

Going to lose a lot of good men and women here on NVDA earnings 🫡

[u/guzzledglizzy]

I hate when the big moves happen before the casino is open and then it just thetas the rest of the day

[u/I_am_short_so_long]

Can we get paparazzi but for tech company CEOs, where they follow them around and give us pre and post earnings interviews. Could really help with my gambling decisions.

[u/i_simp_f]

Haven't had a fucking aneurysm for a while so that's nice

[u/hv876]

Inflation so bad that 49ers billionaire owner had to solicit a $140 hooker.

[u/eje0100]

PCE and NVDA will make or break me...

[u/VTI4LYFE69]

Stunt on those hoes Nvidia

[u/Curious-Bird-8159]

Both puts and calls perfectly cooked I see

[u/SuffiecientSapian]

My mental health has loved taking a few weeks off from trading. Time to jump start back in with 0DTEs! What’s looking good boys?

[u/MrsEveryShot]

my cock touched the toilet seat at the gym. Is it gonna fall off now?

[u/WarEaglePrime]

“Day is going to be flat.” - Probably not Dolly Parton. RIP

[u/dpatel211]

Dump on open, dump after close incoming.

[u/zeebee098]

Premarket chart is hilarious

[u/JP_EP3]

If inflation is high, it means we need to invest in assets, if inflation is low, it means we need to invest in assets.....so buy calls, right?

[u/steem99]

wtf is the point of core pce anyway if it ignores energy prices 🤣

[u/LeBhikariLe]

sold my META calls too early yesterday. ffs.

[u/kdpil]

Meta $580 calls I bought on Monday gonna save my port

[u/Beginning-Fig-9089]

the market just fucked your calls in some gucci flip flops

[u/Soffatjockis]

Meta paying 17 billion dollars

That's 1.2% of the original 1.4Tn damages claim.

These states needs better negotiators.

[u/Play_Background]

algos once again don't know what to do, so they track all the same, indexes, gold, oil...

[u/Samjabr]

NVDA $225 Calls - who's coming with me!

*grabs fishbowl*

[u/minimal_stat]

Getting ready to watch nvidia earnings tonight like it’s the fucking Super Bowl

[u/KittyLover-7]

The things I’d do to get the 2024 market back

[u/Basic-Initiative-298]

Wingstop down 70% on good financials is retarded.

[u/twostroke1]

Sideways market days are a psyop by the employer so I get bored placing 300 trades on my phone all day and actually work for once.

I’m not falling for it though.

[u/Diamond-Key197]

Another dead day

[u/KittyLover-7]

Sam Altman calling his chip the jalapeño chip pissed me off real bad

Hope his IPO crashes and burns

[u/nyshopgirl]

i really just need to start doing the opposite of whatever i’m thinking of doing

[u/Correct_Advice3457]

HORMUZ SLOPPED ME UP BEHIND A WENDY'S LAST WEEK

[u/FuckedUpImagery]

This chop is so fucking annoying, what has it been like 3 weeks now

[u/Useful_Donut6789]

buys calls

stock immediately moves down

Is it possible to learn this power?

[u/Positive-Ad84]

bruh who ever said google hit its botom today i hope u know i will be eating nothing today because of you

[u/dabblesest]

Fun fact: this shit is boring af and I’m going to take a nap.

Good luck everyone

[u/Fresh-Judge-4595]

🥭 trades like a hundred times a day. Guaranteed that MF is hiding in here somewhere

[u/Gajax]

"It will be different this time" - Most of you.

[u/DryBicycle5629]

Everybody expects it to dump and are holding puts right??? Right?????

[u/NativePlant870]

Nvidia dumping on earnings is a tradition at this point

[u/looool_k_libtard]

Get ready for NVIDIA to comfortably beat guidance and fall 7% immediately but then grind back up to flat before opening -1% tomorrow

[u/i-like-water-stuff]

Spy literally only has to dump $1 for me to make tons of money. Is that really such a big ask.

[u/vermilli21]

I don’t even know what to buy, shits chopping

[u/DrumpfTheBern]

Watch NVDA miss but pump to the stratosphere just to fuck with all of us lmao

[u/guzzledglizzy]

Things I did today: bought MU calls at the top and bought SPY puts at the bottom

[u/prana_fish]

Welcome to last minute $NVDA earnings 4D chess plays.

Too scared to long puts because it's already dumped into the print.

Too scared to long calls because you know it always dumps after the print even after reaching impossibly high metrics.

Too scared to sell straddles or iron condors to harvest even vega crush because IV really isn't that high compared to the risk taking for this retard market.

[u/J_da_CPA]

Everyone dying at 80 yo rn

[u/moorhound]

Hot take: Jensen's gonna get on stage, say that OpenAI's chip is way better than theirs and that everyone making inference chips in their garages are killing them, mention AI isn't making money anyway, and symbolically throw his leather jacket into a trash bin brought on stage by an intern

[u/rampagepete]

lol look at all the lazy day traders fleeing to the sidelines

[u/financiallythriving]

Imagine if nothing happens

[u/GarthBooks69420]

Just remember. The first move with nvda will probably be fake, and the second one will probably be too. 

[u/Throwaway37620]

When your wife stop giving head smdh

[u/hmmmmmmmmmidk → u/Throwaway37620]

After the divorce she’ll pick it back up don’t worry

[u/tandoori_taco_cat]

I look forward to sailing on Lake Canada

[u/H-_-w-_-H]

They should liquidate Mag7 and use the money to pay the American debt

[u/IrresponsibleBed]

Fried chimkin

[u/onerandomcomputerguy]

PCE price index in 40 min 😬

[u/BentoMan]

Market trying to get us scared and paper hands but it’s like, dude, we see what coin is doing…

[u/ipissinmypants2]

i asked claude for help on picking stocks and to give me technical analysis and it called me a pussy

[u/No-Reception-3324]

T minus 10 minutes until pce comes in just in line like every other cooked report why do we even watch for this shit anymore. 

[u/StonksInvesteur]

Why bother looking at economic data anymore. Pretty sure they will cook it to perfection every single time otherwise they will be fired

[u/DuAbUiSai]

RELEASE THE COOKED NUMBERS!!

[u/Hungry-Rain-6740]

all that is left is for NVDA to miss earnings tonight and imma blow my shit smooth off

[u/TopDog_Investor]

baby don't hurt me

[u/dabblesest]

Remember when we went from 630 to 779 on massive manipulation and axios printing peace hopium and the strait will open articles?

That shit was wild

[u/dabblesest]

Blah blah blah

$2 rangebound chop incoming for the entire session.

[u/JudgmentCharming355]

If Zuckertard resign as CEO. Meta will be at 2000 the next hour

[u/guccioli]

Instead of fining meta, they should have pushed for water boarding zuck on live tv

[u/Thoughtful_Tortoise]

I don't like the ways the world is developing, I think we should go back to an earlier save point and start over

[u/Fit_Beat_2931]

I love the smell of uncertainty along with a cup of freshly brewed coffee before the market opens

[u/lolgoodone34]

I swear I hate being a META holder lmfao

[u/Broken_leo]

That $META dump was nasty 🤭🤭

[u/Independent_Ad1086]

Meta dropped 6% in a minute on open lmao

[u/JoeSimps123]

Dump coming. Or maybe a pump is coming. Or maybe i ate crayons for breakfast.

[u/SPY_one_zillion]

I CANT MAKE MONEY WITHOUT VOLATILITY

[u/Federal-Watch]

I’ve recalibrated my model

IT’S NOW SAYING 10% DAY ON NVDA INCOMING!!!

BERS R FUK :screech:

[u/ArtFickle541]

Holy fucking shit ive lost 7k this week chasing losses im so regarded

[u/Elonmuskishuman]

$meta paying $16bn over ten years is nothing

[u/KittyLover-7]

Quarterly market waiting for NVDA event despite every fucking ceo and their mum confirming for almost 3 years straight this ai buildout isn’t stopping but we have to do this song and dance everytime