What's the one trade that permanently rewired your brain?

Been thinking about this all week instead of doing literally anything productive. Every single one of us has that one trade. Not necessarily the biggest win or the worst loss, but the one that fundamentally changed the wiring in your little skull forever. The one where afterward you were just a different animal. For me it was early on. I had actual real money, the kind you're supposed to keep in something boring, and I turned it into a pile of weekly calls because a green candle told me to. And for about two glorious days I was a genius. I was already mentally spending it. I was picturing myself explaining to normal people at parties that yeah, I just kind of have a knack for this. Diamond hands, baby. I could do no wrong. You already know how this ends. It didn't just go to zero, it went to zero in the most humiliating, drawn-out way possible, like the market wanted me to feel every second of it. And here's the thing that actually broke me. It wasn't the loss. It was that I sat there

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