This isn’t how numbers work.
Also, practically every asset class has a member that went to zero. The question is what fraction, and how did the others do. If you bought a basket of super-risky assets, over the past years, they went up like crypto and down less.
Former options market maker here. Taking leveraged, directional risk with options is textbook reckless trading. That Robinhood found people to swing options and crypto is not representative of traditional finance.
The only commonly traded way to lose more than you started with are futures (not available on most retail platforms) and CFDs (not legal in many markets, including the USA).
Huh?
