judging by EY’s reply in the thread, he’s doing his best to convince us he’s terrible with money:

You’re associating those quotes with events that didn’t happen. I didn’t buy that high or sell that low; the thing I was explaining was not that. (It was, among other things, a real-money trade that I thought had executed but hadn’t.)

fuck, I’ve known day traders who spent less time justifying their losses than this, and all those folks did all day was coke